Babies, bunnies and a much needed reunion

Year 11 Prom, age 15/16

One of our many strange sleepovers, aged 16

I'm the kind of person who takes a while to make friends and despite my outward loud and crazy nature, I'm ridiculously shy. So lucky for me I have the two most fabulous friends a girl could ask for, I met Natalie on my very first day of high school and Emma joined us not long after.....through thick and thin we're still the best of friends and I have a feeling we always will. Anyway the point of this mushy ramble is to say that since moving to University we all drifted apart for a few years, but I was invited to Natalie's daughters 1st birthday and as a way of trying to make up for losing the contact I volunteered to make the cake :) 

Pink border and red fondant 'Tiffany'

Small presents made from extra cake bits

Dungies, marbles feet and a little 1

To say our trio are chocoholics is a a little bit of an understatement, so naturally I went with a choc sponge and buttercream icing. I was asked for a bunny cake, so I thought of doing a nice pink bunny with pink embellishments. I know what your thinking ..."That really does not look pink at all!" Well you would be right, but I added too much pink dye and it was SHOCKING, looked like Katie Price had got her talons in my icing. But for once I was okay, dumped in all in the bin and decided on a cute white bunny, with  yellow dungies and pink feet. I didn't quite mix the dye in so it had this really nice marbled affect.

Birthday girl and daddy blowing out the candles

The kids party was a great success and as you can see the cake arrived in one piece, people asked for the recipe (a good sign) and us three got our much needed reunion. So, not as many disasters as usual, just the one which was easily rectified....maybe this is a sign that I could actually pursue this? I guess we'll find out. Until the next disaster.....Meg x

My best friends, prom, aged 16

One of our many reunions since this cake + alcohol! 

Two Saints, missing letters and a love of cake

Just a quick update....to be honest I actually forgot I had a blog , oops!

So this next cake is for Two Saints, a homeless day center in Southampton where me and five others were involved in a seven week placement for our drama course. We had some highs and most definitely a lot of lows, but we were really sad at the prospect of leaving so we thought it would be nice to do a little something to show them how much we really cared.

A simple chocolate sponge with buttercream was a sure hit as it is a usual favourite. I copied the logo of Two saints , a nice simple design......however....

I had to dye my own black-dye as Sainsbury's loves me so much they decided to run out :( When dying black , especially at such a large quantity it provides problematic as the protein breaks down when worked too much and so it ripped when placing upon the white. Too make matters worse, I had ordered letter cutters and was fuming to realise that they STILL hadn't arrived and so I had to improvise and try and cut them out with a knife....yeah, looks like it as well!

I also didn't have quite enough white, so I covered the base with a giant black silk ribbon.
Naturally I wasn't satisfied with the cake, but there was a high turn-out at the center that day and the look on their faces when we started going around with pieces was phenomenal :) I had people we hadn't even spoken to come up to me and thank me for such a delicious cake, and tell me that I should "quit this whole drama bollocks and make cakes!" ...oddly this made my day haha

So I went away with an empty box and a full heart, I was THAT happy I was only slightly annoyed to find out that my letters HAD indeed arrived a few days earlier, my housemate just forgot to tell me!

Until the next disaster....Meg x