Kensington Roof Gardens were celebrating 75 years of their fabulous aerial Central London oasis being in existence and what better way to celebrate than a Cakes by Robin flamingo cake extravaganza! I am a bit obsessed with flamingos and for those of you who don't know, there are four resident flamingos at the Roof Gardens and so it was only fair that they were represented...
I think my favourite cake of the year so far has been this christening cake. We made three baby building blocks in different flavours of sponge cake (vanilla Victoria sponge, chocolate and orange and a tangy lemon) and decorated the sides of each blocks with jungle animal faces and the letters of the child's name. Willow (the recipient of the christening cake) has two favourite...
The Gruffalo is a very popular children's birthday cake theme and we regularly make him in various ways. Since 3D birthday cakes always feed a lot of people I.e 25 portions or more, a really nice alternative is to have a sugar model of a Gruffalo sitting on a log on top of a round or square cake with the woodland leaves and toadstools around...