Cakes,cakes,cakes!

The new year was book-ended by a lot of cake! Below is a quick rundown of each one and there are more photos of each cake on my Cakes page.

This was one of my Christmas cakes. I wanted to do something cute this year, and what's cuter than little round robins in woolly hats! The little robin's yellow and orange hat was inspired by Jane's hat from Firefly, which is just a really fantastic hat!

This cake was supposed to have a Christmas tree on it with little presents but I forgot to buy green icing! However I had an abundance of white icing so I decided to go with snowmen instead. I love these two little guys; they're so adorable! I love how simple and innocent this cake looks too. It's just two little snowy friends showing how much they care for each other. A lovely Christmas moment.

This was a 21st birthday cake with a Real Madrid theme. I'm not really a football fan but I do like how the football pattern on this turned out.

I really loved making this cake. Unicorn cakes are really popular at the moment and I have actually wanted to try my hand at one for a while. I enjoyed doing the piping work on this. I haven't done a lot of piping work other than on cupcakes and it was nice to do something different. It was also my first time using gold food paint and I really like how it looks. Other than the fact I knocked over the tub full of little gold balls which went everywhere this cake was a pleasure to make. This was my first cake of 2018 and was a nice pretty way to start the year.

Now this cake was a fun challenge. When I first saw photos of other champagne bucket cakes I just couldn't figure how I was going to make one. I knew a real champagne bottle wouldn't work as it would be too heavy. In the end I decided to carve the bottle out of polystyrene as it's very light. I designed a label on my computer to try and make it look as much like a champagne bottle as possible, and used the gold wrapping from Ferrero Roche for the top (which I think was a little stroke of genius!). I'm pretty proud of this cake, and it was fun to do something so different.