Elephant Cookies!

I was asked to design and make a set of Elephant cookies to accompany the lovely birthday gift of an Elephant adoption. What fun I had making these! All of the vanilla cookies were iced in pale blue icing with sparkly pink ears and sparkly green eyes. One cookie had the name of the adopted elephant emblazoned on the elephant's sign; the others simply stated 'Happy Birthday'!

Beth's Bridal Shower

I am very much looking forward to making Beth and Robin's wedding cake this September. I had the great pleasure of meeting Beth's parents and sister Charlie at one of our consultations. After the consultation Charlie asked me if I would make cupcakes and cookies for a surprise bridal shower for Beth which was held at the weekend. The party colours were pink, lilac and green and so keeping to this colour scheme I made British style cupcakes in three flavours: orange, lemon and chocolate:

The 'shower' had an umbrella theme (!) and so I also made shimmery umbrella shaped cookies in gingerbread, lemon and vanilla flavours.

Baby Shower Cookies

Baby showers are yet another lovely idea which we have transported across the pond from America.  They are a wonderful excuse for ladies (and men too should they fancy) to gather together before (or sometimes after) the birth of a baby to offer support and friendship and they are a fabulous reminder to the mum to be that she has a network of friends to call upon after such a life changing experience.  Typically guests bring small gifts for the baby and the hostess (normally a close friend) organises drinks and nibbles for the guests to feast upon.  There's no more perfect fare for baby showers than cupcakes and cookies in my opinion!  I made these cookies for a shower just last week:

 

Pretty in pink

Earlier this year I was contacted by a lovely lady who had seen iced's cupcakes at a friends wedding and wanted us to make her cake for her wedding at Homewood Park located just outside Bath.   It was an absolute pleasure working with Zoe and Mark to design their cake.  They picked four different flavoured cupcakes: sumptuous chocolate (moist belgian chocolate cake with white chocolate buttercream), ginger lemon (ginger cake with zesty lemon buttercream frosting) vanilla vanilla and carrot cake, which were decorated with handmade sugar roses, butterflies, daisy clusters and gerberas.  The top tier cake was a lemon drizzle cake sandwiched with lemon buttercream.  

   

We kept to a colour palate of white and varying shades of pink to match the wedding flowers and bridesmaid's dresses.  The couple also decided to order iced cookies for their wedding favours.  We made rugby ball shaped chocolate cookies for the men with a hint of cobalt blue to match their neckties, four mini heart shaped vanilla cookies in different shades of pink for the ladies and special sparkly vanilla teddybear cookies for the little guests.  Zoe hand wrote tags for each cookie with the guest's name on the front and a personal message on the reverse which was a lovely personal touch.    

 

Many thanks also to Zoe's wedding planner, Julie from The Wedding Genie who ensured the whole set up process was fantastically smooth!

A little bit of love

Pretty, summery, vibrant and funky: heart shaped, hand-iced and hand-piped vanilla cookies.

Wedding Cake Cookies: spring

I love yellow and white together. I love the fresh springy, vibrant cheeryness of it, it reminds me of sunshine and cool breezes, freshly laundered linen, open windows and lengthening nights.

I made these lovely wedding cake cookie favours for a wedding at the beginning of May. The cookies were lemon flavoured and each was wrapped and tied with a white organza ribbon and placed on a square white side plate, lovely: