Made by Ade - Sugar craft cakes
All cake toppers and ornamental decorations are modelled with sugar paste. There are pictorials of the making of the swans and the flower basket
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Graduation Cake
Made for my Neice who has just been awarded her Doctorate.
The bottom book is dark chocotale mud ckae, the top is white chocolate mud cake. Mortor board, quill and rolled certificate and all made of Pastillage. The printing on the cake is edidable ink on icing sheet.
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Sugar Coach and Horses (Cake Centerpiece) this fairytale centre peice was made during the Royal Wedding celebrations. Fairy Tale Swan Carriage in a perspex case! (from GOSCH cake) The fairytale swan carriage was put under a perspex top to preserve it and 3 years on it is still in pristine condition. Pictorial Making of the swans | Sugar Tiger on Rocks Tiger on the rocks was made for my nephew's 21st birthday. It has 21 teeth (one for each year) - the rocks are mud cake with fondant icing. Cake for Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital This cake with the fairytale swan topper was made for a charity garden party & was auctioned off for GOSCH. |
'Blown Sugar' Cornucopia of Fruit This cornucopia basket is made from pulled sugar, and the fruits are hollow - made by blowing sugar (like blowing glass), and the colours were spayed using a airbrush. It was made for our Thanksgiving dinner a few years ago. Unfortunatley 'pulled' and 'blown' sugar deteriate due to the moisture in the atmosphere. They lasted 6 weeks though ! | |
Sugar Basket and sugar Flowers The basket & flowers are all made with sugar paste and hand painted - 3 years on are still in perfect condition. Pictorial Making the sugar basket | |
Sugar Flower Fruit Cake The topping for this fruit cage is a selection of handmade sugar flowers. They were hand painted with colouring dust and then steamed to seal them. | |
Sugar Poppy Cake Chocotale cake with fondant ruffles and hand made and colour dusted sugar paste poppies. It was for an 18th birthday in November - The flower of the month of November is a Poppy so there are 18 poppies - 1 for each month. | |
Sugar Roses These roses and leaves are made with sugar paste. All of the sugar flowers made for toppings are either hand painted with colour dust or painted with an airbrush (with food colour). | |
3D Winter Scene Christmas cake. A 14 layer chocolate fudge cake for a Christmas auction. The moon is made from blown sugar, the clouds are puffed sugar, Santa and reindeer is piper chocolate, and the 3D mountains and scenery are made from sugar paste. | |
Sugar Flowers and Carrot Cake This was a 'naked' cake with hand made flowers. made for an 18th birthday in May - The Flower of the month for May is Lily of the Valley and has 18 lily bells - 1 for each year. | Sugar Hare in old Woods Clearing The Hare 'topper' is solid, and made of sugar paste, as are the tree trunks and stones. The mound that the Hare is sitting on is the actual cake. Guitar Cake (everything is edible) This guitar cake was for an 18th birthday. the actual body of the guitar is the cake, while the arm is solid sugar paste . All of the parts are edible, except for the strings which are elastic cord |
Sugar Carousel This is a 4 horse carousel topper. It has a battery operated turntable inside so it actually goes round. Everything is made of sugar (except the turntabe of course). View video | Graduation Cake |
Made for my Neice who has just been awarded her Doctorate.
The bottom book is dark chocotale mud ckae, the top is white chocolate mud cake. Mortor board, quill and rolled certificate and all made of Pastillage. The printing on the cake is edidable ink on icing sheet.