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Austin 7 Cake

Monday, May 31st, 2010

And the winner of most challenging cake of the week goes to…..

Austin Seven Red Velvet Cake

Austin Seven Red Velvet Cake

This isn’t the greatest picture in the world, taken with my new iphone which, being technically incompetent, is taking me a while to get used to. However, this cake, which turned out lovely in the end took me hours to make.
The wheels were made with pastillage and edible modelling chocolate tyres so all the spokes are edible. The wheel arches are also edible. The only thing that isn’t edible is the windscreen which I tried several times to make out of sugar but kept breaking and not in the shape I wanted. Not only that, because I had to carve into the cake to create the seats the weight of the icing on the back started to pull the cake apart and I ended up having to take the icing off and recover it from scratch.
Suffice to say there were a few tears shed over this cake though thankfully it turned out all right in the end and the clients went away happy.

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Mental Cakes

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Finally, I have managed to get a hold of my most insane cake to date, which incidentally was a blast to make. It is a sinking cruise ship on the bottom tier with lots of sugar figurines, a pink and black basque make up the second and third tiers, the fourt tier is a pork pie and the top tier is a VW Camper Van.

My mum and step dad threw a joint 60th birthday party at the Burlington Hotel in Worthing and this cake was for them. As I think I have said before it isn’t often I get carte blanche with a cake but this was one of those occasions and as you can see we really went for it!

Suffice to say everyone loved it as well as the cakes inside which were chocolate, lime and coconut, carrot and fruit.

Our party 6 Mar 2010 (2)

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Metropole Wedding Fair and Stuff

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

I thought I had better get on the old blog and update it as I have been rather lazy of late and haven’t bothered – well primarily because there hasn’t been an awful lot new to say.

But ta da! I now do have something to say! Pink Rose Cakes will be exhibiting at the Metropole Hotel in Brighton on Sunday alongside the wonderful Kim Ryan from Plum Catering. I will have a new cake there, one not featured on the website which will be a combination of elegant, classic and timeless with a little bit of modern pzazzz about it.

This week I will be mainly working on a cake with an icing champagne bottle and one shaped like a book with bits exploding out of it. I have also just taken an order for a Dita Von Teese-style cake which I am very excited about – it’s going to be all black and boudoir which should look very cool.

I am still waiting for piccies of my parents’ 60th birthday party for which I did the cake which you might say was Fay’s folly – a really eclectic mix of cakes and designs which they are only the ones who would probably let me do it. You’ll see what I mean when I finally post the pix!

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