Special Occasion Cakes

I love a Party!

These are a couple of commissions I did for big occassions. They were designed according to specific requirements. I was asked by a very good friend of mine to make a special cake for her inlaws fortieth wedding anniversary. She had a definite idea in mind, which was to have a model of them both sitting on top of a globe, with flags from all the countries they had travelled to over their years together.

 So that's what I did. The globe was made from a cake baked in a spherical tin and then covered in blue sugarpaste. I worked out all the major continents according to a map and cut them out of rolled out green sugarpaste, and then carefully arranged them around the sphere in the right places, and then, when dry, painted it with confectioners glaze. This went on top of the base cake, which was covered in navy blue and stars, to represent space. Each of the flags was by hand with sugarpaste of varying colours. Each one carefully researched and worked out precisely, then cut out and attatched to a cocktail stick so they could be inserted into the globe. The figures were half made and left to dry and then placed and finished on the top of the globe. The only thing not edible were the glasses on the female figure, and the cocktail sticks for the flags. The writing was also all sugarpaste and flower paste.

The flags are sugarpaste, and written on with edible pen

This cake is one I was asked to do for a South African couple who were coming to visit their relatives they hadn't seen for a few years, a kind of welcome cake. The person commissioning it was very clear about what he wanted, a model of the couple, waving flags, with something to hint at their love of rugby. So that was what I modelled. I used photos to get an idea of clothes, hair etc. I used skewers cut down to size for the rugby goal in the background.