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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!

Radley Handbag Cake

September 3, 2011 by Helen 9 Comments

White cake on a blue board with a black and blue sugar handbag cake topper

What do you get for the lady who is mad on handbags for her 50th Birthday? A Radley Handbag cake of course! This cake was made as a present for my good friend, Donna on the occasion of her 50th Birthday (Shhhh, I purposely didn't put a ...

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Purple Handbag Birthday Cake

August 1, 2011 by Helen 9 Comments

60th birthday cake, handbag cake, ladies birthday cake, sparkly handbags, sugar handbags, sugar modelling

I LOVE handbag cakes! And I love this cake too - I wasn't too sure how the colours would work out until it started coming together but I think they are really striking. Phew! If they hadn't worked it would have only been my fault as it was ...

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Cath Kidston and Personalised Cupcakes

July 27, 2011 by Helen 5 Comments

Cath Kidston cake, bunting, birthday cake

Another special celebration for our house - lovely Millie was 9 last week and therefore has to be Cake of the Week. Millie is truly lovely - she is gentle, grown-up, fun and innocent all at once. She mixes so well with her friends and we ...

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How to make a Hello Kitty Cake Topper

June 12, 2011 by Helen 2 Comments

After the success of the gruffalo tutorial, I wish to present another 'How to' tutorial - How to make a fondant Hello Kitty cake topper again using a creme egg middle. I have had a few people asking what to use if creme eggs are not ...

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Hello Kitty Cake and Cupcakes

June 6, 2011 by Helen 4 Comments

Very very late posting my Cake of the Week - A Hello Kitty Cake complete with matching Cupcakes and Cake Topper. This is a special cake for me as it is my daughter, Violet's 5th birthday cake - and I get to eat it! Yay! The Hello Kitty ...

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The Muppets Cake

May 22, 2011 by Helen 8 Comments

Muppets Christening Cake Well here is my Cake of the Week - a very special one as it is my daughter, Tara's christening cake from last week. I know its not a traditional christening cake but we don't do traditional in this house. My elder ...

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Mr Men Celebration Cake

May 9, 2011 by Helen 2 Comments

Christening Cake covered in Mr Men characters

I am loving today's Google front page! It is the 76th birthday of Roger Hargreaves, the mastermind behind the Mr Men and Little Miss books. The page keeps changing between the Mr Men & Little Miss characters - I'm spending so much time ...

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Tutorial – How to make an Edible Gruffalo

May 6, 2011 by Helen 19 Comments

Chocolate gruffalo edible cake topper sitting on top of a pale blue cake

Earlier this week I posted a picture of my Gruffalo Cake and the response was incredible. I had many a discussion on Twitter about people making cakes for their children's birthdays and decided to post some tutorials of popular ideas for ...

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Simple Peppa Pig Cake

May 6, 2011 by Helen 2 Comments

Peppa Pig Birthday Cake

I am having the type of day today when it is hard to imagine completing any task - even getting a wash load in the machine seems impossible. No particular reason, just one of those days. So it is nice to look back over the last week and ...

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Gruffalo Cake

May 1, 2011 by Helen 7 Comments

gruffalo cake

What a cake to start back with after a 3 month absence! This was the cake I made for my lovely nephew, Miles Patrick 'Milo''s Christening this weekend. I have to admit The Gruffalo book isn't one of the favourites of my girls. We prefer ...

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Hi, I'm Helen. Mother of 3, Wife of 1. Tired since 2002. To be found in the kitchen or poolside.
I'm here to help you find easy, tasty family recipes and gorgeous bakes for busy households.

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