Charlotte and Warren's Elegant Cupcakes and Summery Cookies

Last Friday Charlotte and Warren were married at the beautiful Mellington Hall in Powys. Charlotte's lovely parent's collected the cupcakes and cookies on the Thursday to take to the hotel so I'm afraid I do not have photographs of the cakes set up in situ but I did take some of my own photographs before they were collected.

Charlotte and Warren planned their wedding with a romantic, summer garden feel in mind. They wanted a cupcake cake which exuded informal elegance and sophisticated romance. After their tasting Charlotte and Warren chose cupcakes in two different flavours: vanilla cupcakes filled with fresh seedless raspberry compote and frosted with vanilla buttercream frosting and Belgian chocolate cupcakes filled with fresh cherry compote and topped with white chocolate buttercream. The vanilla cupcakes were decorated with three tiny hand moulded sugar buds and the chocolate cupcakes loose, romantic hand moulded sugar roses and leaves. The top tier was a chocolate fruit cake decorated with loose, hand moulded sugar roses and leaves and piped with tiny white royal icing dots, tied with two different types of white organza ribbon and finished with a diamante and pearl button:

Charlotte also asked me to make summery daisy cookies, which were served to the guests on platters with a glass of bubbly after the ceremony. We made three different sized cookies in three flavours: vanilla, zesty lemon and zesty orange, the cookies were then hand piped with yellow, lemon and white royal icing and decorated with a little bit of sparkle:

Charlotte also asked me to make special vanilla cookies for the littlest guests Toby and Olly:

Thank you to Charlotte and her mother for being so lovely and making the design process such fun! Wishing Charlotte and Warren every happiness for their future lives together!

Kelly and Rick's Elegant Champagne Bubble Cake

Kelly and Rick were married today at the Coed-y-Mwstwr hotel near Bridgend. Kelly comes from New Zealand and I think her family have brought the sunshine with them to Wales! Blazing sunshine lit up the lovely bluebell strewn drive this morning as I drove up to the hotel. Kelly and Rick decided upon a simple and elegant four tier wedding cake: two of the tiers were moist carrot cake filled with cinnamon cream cheese frosting and two of the tiers were Belgian chocolate brownie cake filled with white and milk chocolate ganache. Scrumptious!

We decided to keep the design of the cake to a very classic style with white royal icing piped beadwork mimicking champagne bubbles on white sugarpaste, accented with navy bows in a ribbon to match the colour of the bridesmaid's gowns. We topped the cake with an elegant sugar looped cluster bow.

It was an absolute pleasure working with Kelly and Rick to design their cake! Wishing them a truly wonderful day and many best wishes for the future!

Technical Hitch

Just to let you know that I have been experiencing a few technical hitches with the online form on my webiste. I am assured that the glitch has now been ironed out but I may not have received some enquiries over the last weeks. Many apologies if you have been affected by this, please do get in touch again either by email or by telephone.

Image theft

It has been recently brought to my attention that images have been stolen from this blog by a "cake maker" called Cake Temptation based in Kent who is passing my images off as his own. Action is currently being taken against this individual. I can't tell you how dissapointed I am that someone would do this, not just from my point of view and that of my clients, but also that people are being hoodwinked into ordering cakes from this man. The matter was brought to my attention by another cakemaker who discovered that this individual has stolen 15 of her images and to date has refused to remove them. Absolutely despicable.

UPDATE: I am pleased to say that Cake Temptation have now changed their website and removed my images from their website...

Lizzie and John's Blue Butterfly Cake

Lizzie and John where married on Friday on the most beautiful sunny spring day at the King Arthur Hotel in Reynoldston on the Gower Peninuslar. They both liked the Butterfly design which they had seen on the iced website and so we tailored the design to fit with their pale blue colour scheme. We also made one or two other changes to the design: we added a slight pearlescence to the blue fondant icing, piped royal icing detailing on to the little butterflies, used a cluster of white roses interspersed with butterflies on the top of the cake and added a little bow at the centre of the top tier. Lovely!

Lizzie and John had a number of guests who are gluten intollerant and so we made the top tier of the cake a gluten free 'jaffa' cake (sumptuous belgian chocolate cake filled with orange buttercream), the remaining two tiers were lemon drizzle cake filled with vanilla buttercream and scrumptious homemade lemon curd.

Lizzie and John are such a lovely couple and they were fabulous to work with. We send them all of our best wishes for a lovely happy future!

Kate and Dominic's Romantic Cupcakes and Cookies

The lovely Kate and Dominic were married yesterday on a beautiful sunny spring day at Peterstone Court hotel near Brecon. The style of the wedding was elegant, vintage, country garden chic and the cupcakes needed to tie in with this feel! Kate and Dominic chose four different flavours of cupcake: Sumptuous Chocolate (Belgian chocolate sponge topped with white chocolate buttercream, Vanilla Vanilla, Strawberries & Cream and Carrot cupcakes with cinnamon cream-cheese frosting. The top tier cake was a moist Belgian chocolate cake filled and covered with decadent white chocolate buttercream frosting.

Each flavour cupcake was decorated in a different floral style to tie in with the flowers on the tables and in the bouquets. The bridesmaids had beautiful dusky pink dresses and so we decided to stick to a dusky pink / cream colour palate. Each cupcake was finished by being encased in a beautiful filigree cupcake casing to keep the cupcakes looking sumptuously vintagely elegant!

Kate and Dominic also asked me to make vanilla cookie favours / place settings for their guests. They decided upon heart shaped cookies for the men iced in dusky pink and overpiped with cream filigree royal icing to mimic the style of the cupcake cases. The ladies were treated to either shoe shaped or handbag shaped cookies iced with cream cream royal icing and then piped and decorated with dusky pink sugar flowers. I made a special cookie for Kate with K and D piped in royal icing:

It was so lovely to see Kate on the morning of the wedding to see her reaction to the cake! Thank you for my lovely chocolates, and for being such fun to work with! I hope you both had a truly wonderful day! Wishing you every happiness for the future!

more iced in the press....!!

We are featured twice in Wedding Venues & Services Magazine (a national wedding magazine in the UK) for March, April and May: Porcelain in the 'Dream Cakes' feature and our lemon wedding cake cookies in a collage of ideas for spring weddings... how lovely!