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70th Birthday Cake with White Sugar Roses #BakeoftheWeek

June 24, 2016 by Helen 16 Comments

70th Birthday Cake White Sugar Roses

I'm bringing you a delicate, pretty birthday cake for this week's #BakeoftheWeek. Made for a friend's Mum on her 70th birthday last weekend - I was so pleased to be able to make her 'special' birthday cake. My brief was 'Elegant' so ...

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Pink Rose Birthday Cake #BakeoftheWeek

April 5, 2016 by Helen 22 Comments

Pink Rose Birthday Cake

I have a huge cake for this week's #BakeoftheWeek from me. Last week was my first major week since re-opening my cake business, Aardvark Cakes. There was slight trepidation - Could I remember how to make cakes? Had I slowed down a lot? ...

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Cake of the Week – Extra Tall Rose Wedding Cake

December 5, 2012 by Helen 4 Comments

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 ...

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Sugar Flowers Cascade Wedding Cake

September 24, 2012 by Helen 3 Comments

Four tier ivory wedding cake with pink sugar lilies cascading down the front

Well, we are finally there. The final wedding cake went out this week. This was an order I have had since April (around the time I decided to put Aardvark Cakes to sleep for a while) I didn’t want to go out with a whimper and this was ...

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White Rose Wedding Cake with Ivy Side Design – Cake of the Week

July 15, 2012 by Helen 2 Comments

Three tier wedding cake on an offset cake stand with white sugar roses

White Rose Wedding Cake with Ivy Side Design Another terrible picture. Another cake drop off in torrential rain. Another happy couple - thank goodness! I had never even met the bride and groom before they came to look at their cake on ...

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Ivory and Peach Rose Wedding Cake

July 11, 2012 by Helen 5 Comments

Ivory and peach sugar roses on a two tier wedding cake

It is an absolute miracle that this cake made it to the reception, never mind that it was fit to eat. This cake was a wedding last Friday, yep, the rainiest day ever and I had to deliver it to a reception where the car park is nowhere near ...

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Pink Ombre Wedding Cake

June 17, 2012 by Helen 11 Comments

One of my favourite Wedding Cakes ever - A 3 tier Pink Ombre Wedding Cake with pale pink sugar roses and finely piped hearts all over the cake. Thank you so much for all your lovely comments and messages following last week's post about ...

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Chocolate Roses Wedding Cake

April 8, 2012 by Helen 10 Comments

Four tier chocolate square wedding cake with milk and white chocolate roses

Happy Easter Everyone. Hope you are having a wonderful day. We have unexpectedly come home early from our second caravan trip of the year - Violet became unwell yesterday and we didn't want to chance her spending the night vomiting in the ...

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Yellow Tea Roses Cake

March 6, 2012 by Helen 5 Comments

1 tier white birthday cake with handmade sugar yellow tea roses on top and a yellow board

I love a yellow cake - The bright beauty of yellow tea roses are perfect for all manner of occasions. This is a repeat order for a family I have got to know. One of the Mums was 80 in December and the other Mum is 80 this week. What a ...

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Pink Lady’s 80th Birthday Cake

November 29, 2011 by Helen 1 Comment

1 tier white birthday cake with pink sugar roses and a pale pink ribbon around the cake. The pink writing says Happy 80th Birhday

A day later than expected but for very good reason. This weekend was a mammoth one. We had the annual presentation for swimming in which both girls got decorated with medals, our first sleepover (3am in case you were wondering!) and I held ...

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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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