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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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Filed Under: Birthday Cakes, Cakes, Children's Birthday Cakes Tagged With: Homemade Cake Topper, novelty birthday cake, Peppa Pig Cake

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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Baby Girl Christening Cake

January 21, 2011 by Helen 2 Comments

Two Tier baby girl christening cake

Going through some archived pictures - This is a Christening Cake from 2010 for a couple whose wedding cake I made a couple of years ago. I have to admit this cake seemed to take forever as there were loads of little bits - The topper ...

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Filed Under: Adult's Birthday Cakes, Cakes, Christening Cake

Bra Retirement Cake

January 7, 2011 by Helen 5 Comments

2 tier cream Retirement Cake with sugar bra cake topper

I know I have said it a million times but I love this cake! One of my last cakes before going on maternity leave for a good chunk of 2011 (don't worry I still have loads of cakes to post and I'm sure the cakes my family get me doing are ...

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Formula 1 Birthday Cake

November 8, 2010 by Helen 5 Comments

What is it with me and vehicles? The brief for this order was either a Volkswagon Golf (Argh!!!) or something Formula 1 - neither of which particularly float my boat (oh god, another vehicle) but in the end we decided on F1. Chris is a lad ...

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Boy and Girl Christening Cake Ideas

November 2, 2010 by Helen 1 Comment

Baby boy christening cake blue building blocks

After a long absence from the blog, I am back with loads of new stuff to post. Millions (well nearly) of cakey and baking books to review (its a serious addiction of mine and all part of the plan to own and use 200 good baking/cook books by ...

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80th Birthday Cake

April 14, 2010 by Helen 4 Comments

A cake from last week - My brief was a Dad sat in a cream chair reading the Daily Telegraph. From speaking to one of his daughters it turned out that he was way more interesting than just that! Also included was a cup of tea (what self ...

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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.
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