Choosing a birthday gift can be tricky at the best of times. When it comes to an event as significant as a 50th birthday, it can become even harder. However, the same concepts apply to choosing a 50th birthday gift as they do to any other birthday. You want to choose something that shows you …
It’s birthday cake time again. This year my niece’s cake of choice, is a Rainbow Birthday Cake, with a few modifications. My Rainbow Cake recipe does not have 7 layers of cake, but does have all the colour. I decided to use lots of bright colours into a 3 layer cake, to create a Tie Dye Rainbow …
I am sharing some recent craft makes with you today. Browsing Pinterest for Wedding Card and Birthday Card ideas I discovered lots of inspiration. I combined some of the ideas to come up with two rather lovely yet different cards. Handmade Tying the Knot Wedding Card Both the cards I have made have a sewing slant …
This Lemon Madeira cake with raspberries turned out to be the perfect choice for a travelling birthday cake. It needed to make it safely from Shropshire to South Devon during the recent heatwave we experienced. I felt a standard sandwich cake with butter cream would not fair well in the heat. I tweaked a standard …
Sweetie Cake During my Devon holiday, my niece was seven years old which obviously called for a birthday cake. Nothing to complicated or time-consuming as we were after all on our holidays, and given the heatwave we were experiencing a hot kitchen was the last place I wanted to be in. I suggested that a …
Yay, last week my niece was 6 years old and I got to bake her a birthday cake. My mission was to bring the seaside to Shropshire. I’d been planning the cake for a little while, I’d bought some shell moulds and lustre dust from the Telford Sugarcraft Show back in May. The Seaside Cake …
A Strawberry Sweetie birthday cake. This great sweetie cake recipe came about as a result of a cake questionnaire. I had no idea what type of cake I would bake for my cousins birthday last week. Strawberry Sweetie Birthday Cake So, I’d posted a few questions to her to help narrow down the choices. Cake …
You could be confused, after all what is the difference between a cake and a ceramic tile. In this case the answer is simple, its a ‘Birthday’! So here is a cake I made for my aunt’s birthday. Its based on a ceramic tile she designed herself last year when we visited the Jackfield Tile …