Pretty Flower Cake Design

Hello all. It’s a while since I have been on here – getting a lot of house renovating and other stuff done. Now we are in the new year it’s an exciting time. British Sugar Guild exhibition at Telford in May – our branch, Burton Joyce, have all hands on deck producing a design I created for entering a table in the exhibition branch competition… that will be thrilling.

But for the time being I have been thinking of new designs to take with me when I am demonstrating and this one, would you believe it, was inspired by a cushion.

Mainly hand cut flowers and leaves with piped stitching effect

I was just sitting in my living room when I glanced across at a cushion on my chair and thought that would make a lovely cake… then I did nothing with it and 6 months later I finally got around to it. It is not copied exactly like the cushion but I just used it to get my brain in gear.

Pretty Cushion Inspired Cake Detail

To start with I made templates out of watercolour paper for the leaves and large flowers (it’s quite stiff but easy to cut and store templates). Rolling out the modelling paste to about one millimetre I proceeded to use my templates and cut out my pink and blue flowers. This style does not require any thinning on the edges with the ball tool – just cut and use. I then used blossom and forget-me-not cutters on the smaller flowers.

Making the leaves are the same process as the large flowers. When attaching these to the cake they were not glued totally flat – it’s nice to lift the edges off the cake slightly to give it a 3D effect. Then trimmed with  a little delicate piping with royal icing to look like stitching.

With the balls around the bottom I made one the size I wanted and then keeping that aside I measured all the others next to it to get roughly the same size throughout. Now there is probably an easier way or a tool to do this but as you know I do not own a lot of tools and the least amount of tools I use the better – it makes you have more creative flair.

This cake design is ideal for any type of celebration cake – pretty cake for a teenagers birthday or it can even be translated into a beautiful wedding cake.

If you’d like me to decorate a cake in a bespoke style or something completely different for your special occasion then please feel free to contact me for a quote. Copper Top Cakes is based in Nottingham and delivers to the East Midlands area. Please feel free to leave me an email or a message and I will always get back to you as soon as possible.

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Pink Flowery 70th Birthday Cake

I was recently commissioned to create a feminine 70th Birthday cake and this is the design that I decided to make. This design would also looke great in a 3 tier wedding cake.

Each of the delicate flowers were made by hand and they are individually highlighted with silver accents and glitter.

The finishing touch was a plaque in the centre of the cake with ‘Happy 70th Birthday Nan’ hand piped on and also accented with silver.

If you’d like me to decorate a similar cake for your special occasion then please feel free to contact me for a quote. Copper Top Cakes is based in Nottingham and can deliver to the East Midlands area.

Flowery 30th Birthday Cake

Another week, another birthday cake, this time I had been asked to decorate a surprise birthday cake for my sister in law. I had been given free reign over the design and I decided to make it very feminine and flowery for her.

I started by cutting out the number 30 to cover with flowers. I made each flower individually by hand and arranged them to fill out the shape of the numbers and once they had hardened I set them in place in the centre of the cake.

To tie in the design I trimmed the edge of the circle with a line of similar tiny flowers and then added a band of larger flowers beneath. Finished off with the ‘Happy Birthday’lettering around the base board.

If you’d like me to decorate a similar cake for your special occasion then please feel free to contact me for a quote.