Category: Anniversary

Hearts and blossoms

I made this cake for my friend’s parents on their wedding anniversary.   It’s quite a simple cake, but very effective, I think.  I filled a heart-shaped chocolate sponge cake with chocolate ganache, and then covered it with chocolate ganache and sugarpaste.  I handmade some sugar hydrangea blossoms and scattered them over the top of the [...]


Ribbons & swirls

Patrick from Leixlip ordered this cake.  He and his wife were having a 25th Wedding Anniversary party.  It was quite a large cake – a 12″ fruit cake bottom tier and an 8″ fruit cake top tier.  I covered both tiers in marzipan and ivory sugarpaste.  I made the ribbons on top from flower paste [...]


Priest’s 50th Jubilee Cake

This was the second cake ordered by Aoife  – this time for her uncle’s 50th Jubilee.  He is a priest, based in South Africa, so she wanted me to depict that on the cake.  It was important to have a little map of South Africa, with Durban marked on it, as that is where he [...]


Ruby Wedding Anniversary – Swimming and Superfoods!

This cake was for Harry and Caroline’s 40th Wedding Anniversary.  Their daughter ordered it as a surprise for their party.  Harry absolutely loves swimming and gardening, and Caroline is very into nutrition and superfoods, and is always working on her laptop.  So I designed a ruby-coloured cake with Harry swimming in a little pool with [...]