I made this cake at a class taught by the wonderful Gráinne MacClancy of www.acakeforyou.ie.  I absolutely adore this cake – I think it would be a fantastic cake for an intimate wedding, or for a very special birthday.  It was 3 small cakes (6″ and 7″) stacked on top of each other, carved into [...]

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 [...]

This wedding cake was for my friends Carl and Elaine.  They wanted to be able to keep the cake topper after the wedding, so I handmade it from modelling clay, which will last forever.  Elaine sent me pictures of her wedding dress, and described what her bouquet would look like and what style of suit [...]

I made this cute Christening cake for my twin niece and nephew, Aoibhinn and Conor.  The bottom tier was chocolate biscuit cake, and top tier was chocolate orange cake, filled with orange buttercream.  They are both covered in sugarpaste, which I sprayed with pearl lustre spray.  I made loads and loads of little buttons from [...]

I made this cake for Sinéad and Damien’s wedding in Galway.  They wanted a fairly simple design on their cake – just dark blue ribbon to match the bridesmaid’s dress, and flowers to match Sinéad’s bouquet.  Sinéad showed me pictures of the bouquet she had chosen, so I handmade ivory and white roses and tiny [...]