Happy St Patrick's Day - Have some cake! (and possibly some Guinness to wash it down with!)How will you be celebrating or do you not bother? I'll be going to a cookery demonstration tonight with WI pals and maybe persuaded to pop into a ...
Celebration Cakes
Celebration Cakes for all Occasions. You will find Birthday Cakes for all of the Family, Christening Cakes and even some wedding cakes.
Most of these cake designs can be made by beginners to cake decorating with some suitable for the more intermediate decorator.
There's cute cakes, cake toppers, sugar flowers but most importantly of all, they all taste amazing!
Tractor Cake & Rice Krispie Treats Tutorial
I've come out of retirement AGAIN! My brother-in-law was 40 last week so out came the sugarcraft equipment. Since I last did a 'proper' cake, our one and only sugarcraft shop in St Helens has closed so it was a bit of a challenge to get the ...
Key Lime Cheesecake Pie – Great Bloggers Bake Off
I will admit to nearly chickening out of my second week of baking along with the Great Bloggers Bake Off. Pies make me tremble - I am in awe of the perfection of pastry. I do admit though that there is nothing like the satisfaction of ...
Creme Egg Minions – Despicable Me 2: Creme Egg Creatures
I've been having a play this afternoon - The Creme Eggs have been transformed into Minions. The country is going Despicable Me 2 crazy as the film comes out this week. I've well and truly jumped on the bandwagon! Its not exactly Creme ...
Scooby Doo Birthday Cake
Why did no-one tell me about the joys of plastic figures earlier? I spent years of my life that I will never get back making teeny sugar figures and now I discover how brilliant pre bought figurines are. When I was asked to make a Scooby ...
Violet Meringue Kisses
I'm well known for my love of all things violet. You may remember a few weeks ago I was waiting on a delivery of some much coveted violet syrup. Well, the syrup arrived and smells divine so I have set out experimenting with recipes. ...
Cake of the Week – Extra Tall Rose Wedding Cake
Its been a while since we've had a Cake of the Week - The Costello clan are here, there and everywhere for a couple of weeks but I found these pics of one of the more unusual wedding cakes I have done and wanted to share. The Cake was 3 ...
When it goes wrong – A cake maker’s story
One of the most common arguments I had during my cake making years, was when I wasn't happy about how a cake was turning out or worrying about how I would go about making a design. I know people were either trying to be nice, boost my ...
Ice Age Cake
I've got a confession - I've never seen Ice Age. In fact, there's tons of children's films I have never watched. I've never seen Shrek either but I can more or less repeat the script word for word thanks to my girls watching it on the iPad ...
What to expect at the Women’s Institute County Show
Its typical isn’t it? As soon as I stop making cakes, I win an award for them. They always say that you should be relaxed about doing any sort of art/craft (whoever ‘they’ are!) I’ve mentioned on here loads of times that I am involved with ...
