Alice in Wonderland cake with matching cupcakes

My final offering for 2011 is another Alice in Wonderland  cake with a matching  cupcake tower, all of which are topped with popular characters from the two books.

The cake is for a young  lady named Ashleigh who will be celebrating her 21st birthday this evening.  Happy birthday Ashleigh and enjoy your evening!

Cake Pops

I have really tried to stay away from the latest craze for cake pops, but I have to admit, I'm smitten.  Not only are they a fantastic way to use up all the lovely cake tops that I would normally let my kids pick at, but they are also actually yummy!

Here are a batch that I made today for our school Christmas Fayre:-

A few cupcakes for the school cake sale

My good friend Pauline is now doing a fabulous job of running Almondsbury School cake sale.  Each year takes it in turn to host a cake sale and they are then allowed to spend the proceeds on equipment for their own classroom.

Since Pauline took on this role takings have climbed and climbed and today's bootie was a wonderful £132!

These are a few of the cupcakes that I baked for the occasion.

WRFU ball 18th cake

My one and only big cake this week is for a young man who is celebrating his 18th birthday this weekend and who is very proud of his Welsh roots.

 I am slowing down my work load because of an imminent operation which means after next week's cake I won't have anything to share with you until the New Year.

Pink Party Shoes

My final cake of the week is for a young lady who is celebrating her 21st birthday.  Unfortunately, she recently discovered that she was diabetic and as a compromise the cake has only got fondant  on the top and I have used diabetic jam instead of the usual.  When I had finished levelling the cake my kids all appeared out of nowhere for the scraps and all were in agreement that the cake was 'lush' and that the diabetic jam tasted good and if not better than conventional.

Happy 21st Lydia!

Nikki's 21st!!!

Today is a very special day!  Nikki, my son's partner is celebrating her 21st birthday.  She is a lovely young lady who makes my son Ben very, very happy, and so I wanted to make her a very special cake.  Happy birthday Nikki from me and all my brood xxxx

Thomas the Tank Engine

This cake is for  a little boy named Travis who will be celebrating his 2nd birthday this Sunday, but as I type he is waiting  at A&E to make sure he hasn't broken his finger.  Poor Travis! 

50th Wedding Anniversary Cake

I have really been struggling to work this week and this cake has probably taken me a lot longer to make than it usually would, but the end result was worth it!  The cake is for a close friend of my mother-in-law Penelope, and the lady in question , Hatty was let down by another cake maker any I was available to fill in.  Lucky me, because it's just the sort of cake that I love to make!

21st birtday cake with peonies and girlie cupcake tower

My final cake of the week is for the daughter of my lovely friend Helen.  We have been friends since we were at school  and probably only catch up 3 or 4 times a year, but that's all we need to put the world to right, and have a good girlie chat.

Helen left the design up to me, so long as it was feminine, and  I took this as  an opportunity to make peonies to go on the main cake.

LV cupcakes

Strawberry whoopie pies!

These little treasures really are my idea of heaven!   I adapted a recipe from the Hummingbird book and the resulting cakes are absolutely amazing! Those lucky people at LV are going to find it hard to choose tomorrow!

These cakes are all the rave in The States at the  moment and now I know why.  Made using natural yogurt and whole  milk to bind the mix together,  they are incredibly  light and tasty.  They are then sandwiched together with a buttercream and vanilla fluff.   Yum yum!

Blue eyed black lemur

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This next cake has a really interesting story to tell!  To many it would not be an obvious choice for a christening cake, but for Chris and Nora Schwizer it was perfect.  Chris is Head of Conservation at Bristol Zoo, and along with Nora they have been to many an exotic location in search of the Blue Eyed Black Lemur whose numbers are now so low that it is rated in the top 25 of the world's most endangered species.

Enjoy a wonderful day Sunday with all your family!