Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope you've had a great day no matter what you've been up to! I've been baking today as well as shopping for more cake supplies! My lovely new stand arrived this morning and my new textured rolling pin arrived yesterday as well.
Yesterday was spent greeting customers coming to pick up their Valentine's Gift Boxes. Everybody seemed very pleased with them so I'm very happy!

I also surprised a friend with these cupcakes as a bit of a pick me up.

I'm spending tomorrow decorating an 18th birthday cake and meeting a customer who's having an exciting cake next week!
Sorry it's just short and sweet but I'm off for an early night before a busy day tomorrow!
Sam x

Nurses, Roses and Stands

I've been busy making some decorations for upcoming cakes. I've never made figures before for cake toppers before but I've had an order for a cake with a Nurse topper and that's not something you can get easily in the shops so I thought before I pay a fortune for one that's I'd give making my own a go. I don't have any modelling clay here so I just used some roll out icing that I coloured and thickened up. I'm quite pleased with the results, especially for a first attempt! What do you think?

I'm going to keep practising as I'd love to be able to do wedding cake toppers! I've made lots of roses for my Valentine's cupcakes but I just wasn't happy with them so I tried a different method and I'm so much happier with them. I've got a few more to make tomorrow so I'll have enough to do my Valentine's gift boxes. Here's a quick peek at them drying out!

I've got some very exciting orders coming up and the wedding orders have started rolling in too which is fab! I have a casino/Las Vegas themed order coming up very soon that I'm so looking forward to doing. I've ordered a gorgeous new cupcake stand as well, I'm really looking forward to it arriving! It's a 7 tier mirrored stand and it's first use will be with the casino order. Here it is and it is available for hire with and without cake orders!

Right I must be off, busy day's baking to get on with in the morning!
Sam x

More goodies!

I've registered with Makro today so I can shop for ingredients! We had a quick loo round today as there was so much else to do but I did come out with cocoa, icing sugar and a whopping 12.5kg of caster sugar! I wonder how long that'll last! We popped into my local cake craft centre to get a few bits and pieces too, as usual I managed to spend a fortune after only going in for a couple of bits! Got some ribbons, lustre sprays, flower paste and some new rose cutters! A good friend of mine is getting married in July and I'm doing her wedding cake! Very exciting! She's decided on a white 3 tier cake with blue and white roses draped around. I'm looking forward to seeing that one finished!
Over the next couple of days I have a Thomas The Tank Engine Cake and a white cake with flowers and silver and turquoise accents. I'm certainly looking forward to getting on with them! I've bought some Valentine's sprinkles, glitter and some heart toppers for my Valentine's Gift Boxes. I've bought some cake dummies in too so I can play with some new wedding cake designs! How exciting! I've FINALLY ordered a giant cupcake mould! I've never had one or made one before and I figure it's about time I did! They certainly seem to be popular at the moment! Oh the poor bank balance has taken a bit of a beating just recently but we cakers need lots of tools to make lovely cakes!
I'll be back soon with some pretty cake pictures!
Sam x