RAINBOWS AND BIRDIES

As promised in my sneak peak here is the finished cake for Marie.  I was really pleased with how it turned out and I think the birthday girl was too (and the birthday girl's Mum).

  

 

As the cake was to be rainbow themed Marie requested that the inside be a rainbow too.  This was my first time at coloured cake so I made a cupcake to check out how it would look and this portion was a perfect rainbow! You can see the actual cake innards here.

 

Take a look at Marie's blog to see all her fabulous party ideas, I love the banners and bunting. She has definately raised the party stakes in our town!

A PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE COTTAGE

Finally! I have finished my bird house.

This is gingerbread covered in fondant, it is my third, and each time I make a new one I discover new tricks to make it better.   I seem to have become obsessed with sugar and gingerbread birds, and they have become one of my recurring motives in my work.

Bumbling around flickr and other blogs looking for inspiration is so enjoyable and I can sometimes spend so much time being inspired that I don't get down to actual being creative myself!  But I hope that you will be inspired by this post to do something gingerbready.  Please leave a link if you have made a gingerbread house, I'd love to see it!

If you live in or near Hertforshire and would like to order a Christmas gingerbread house please e-mail for prices and more details.