My Valentine Cakes

                      

Hello  friends ,wishing you a Happy Valentine season.

 I  hope you had a memorable and pleasant Valentine Weekend . Please keep the flame of love burning in your  hearts.

I had a fun- time making these Valentine cakes ( lots of them) for my clients before Valentine Day.

 I am pleased to share  the pleasure of making them with you .

1.  Round fruit cake covered with cream coloured sugar  paste and  hearts

                

Valentine Day is incomplete without sharing a dessert of  lots of cream  and  strawberry . 

    

 This  heart-shaped sandwich cake  is a " fruity" project ;covered with  mixed fruit and butter cream icing ; topped with  double cream , fresh  strawberries and Kiwi fruit . 

                          

                                     

                           

                              

  Heart -shaped cake  covered with beige- coloured Butter Cream Cake . Decorated with 2 toned pink / fuchsia piped Roses and piped leaves.

                       

                        

 Hexagonal  blue and pink  rich fruit cake with garland of Sugar flowers

Heart-shaped cake with heart and cross  plaques
  "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.  Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends".

                         

Manila shaped  fruit cake

                 

        

                            

 Two-tier  cake decorated with  red  hearts , squares and  heart- shaped plaque with flowers.

     

                                      

"  Jesus is Love "

  

                             

   

                          

Garnished with  hand -made sugar flowers -Lily of the Valley sugar flower  and leaf  

and bejewelled  hand- made red sugar  rose:

                      

                                                                                             

  

                               

      

Love is sweet food

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.  ~Albert Ellis

 
   

FESTIVE NOTES

Happy New Year , dear readers!

I had a wonderful 2012 and a pleasant Christmas holiday.

 I hope you did. 

 It was a string of events to celebrate the festive period.

What better way to celebrate the end of a glorious 2012 and to usher in a brand New Year! 

Made some cakes and party foods  . Here are some of the pictures.

                                                                          

FINGER FOODS

               Plantain Chips 
      


          Pastry Chips ( Chin-Chin)

            Sea food Canapés            
                         
           
 Canapés  and  Sushi

                                                     
Meat pies

 

Coconut Crunchies

 

SUYA  - Grilled spicy Beef fillets 

Spicy BBQ Chicken wings with Creme Frais and Celery 

                                  

Happy Birthday ! 

Christmas cake 

Rose  Design Cup Cakes

Wishing you a very good year. Be happy!

Happy Fathers Day !

It's Fathering Sunday ; another opportunity to celebrate Fathers.

Hope you had a memorable and sweet Fathers Day.

Fathers love your children and go the extra mile for them.

Children appreciate and honour  your fathers . 

I made these Cakes for this Fathers Day weekend - 
Cherry Cup cakes , Glacé Cherry Melba Cake and Coconut  and Cinnamon Victoria Sandwich cake.

 Cherry Cupcakes

  Glacé Cherry  Cake

 Cinnamon and Dessicated Coconut  Victoria Sandwich Cake 

Be Happy

Be Happy. 
Go out for a lovely meal. Enjoy a  delicious dessert.

Have a pleasant weekend .

Special Treats for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee 2012

The Queen's 60th Jubilee this weekend will feature hundreds of street parties and other events , all over the United Kingdom.
To mark the occasion here are some delicious treats to share with your family and friends.
Have a sweet Queen's Jubilee weekend.

Recipes are by courtesy of Telegraph Newspapers.

Jubilee Union Jack Cake


Jubilee Chicken


Jubilee Food Flags


Jubilee Royal Eton Mess

x x x !

Valentine Cake 2012 - Rich fruit cake in red and white colours.



Baked a heart -shaped fruit cake and covered it with marzipan and pure white Fondant Paste.
Then I used red Royal Icing to pipe a heart-shaped filigree lace design on the centre of the cake. In the centre of this piped filigree design , I affixed a smaller heart-shaped design , made of red modelling paste decorated with sugar beads.
Then I trimmed this beaded centre piece by piping around it tiny white Royal icing shells.

I trimmed the top of the cake with hand-made edible white "Borderie Anglais" strips with red sugar ribbon insertions in them ; both trimmings were made of modelling sugar paste.

Hand- made red and white sugar roses and green sugar rose leaves gave the cake top a beautiful finish.

The cake was placed on a red cake board and the base of the cake was decorated around with red heart-shapes made of sugar paste.
Cake was completed by trimming all around its base with medium-sized shells piped on with pure white Royal Icing.


The delicious cake went down well as a dessert with glasses of sparkling fruity wines.
Fortunately for the cuddly teddy and the cake board, they are not edible; as such they escaped unscathed !
Have a sweet Valentine Day!