Polka dot birthday cake

Traditional occasion cake decorated with a polka dot theme.

Coconut Skull cake

Coconut sponge covered with Coconut flavored buttercream decorated with icing and edible glitter, finished with silver balls!

Red velvet cake

This cake is really popular at the moment it's a American recipe. The sponge is bright red it's a shame I didn't take a photo of the inside!
The topping is made of creme cheese and icing sugar it's surprisingly light. I used a Nigella lawson recipe for this the recipe was for cupcakes but I doubled the recipe and used a 10"inch round cake tin!
Ingredients ( needs to be doubled)
250g/ 8 oz plain flour
2 tbsp/ 30 mL cocoa powder
2 tsp/ 10 mL baking powder
½ tsp/ 2 mL baking soda
100g / 3 1/2 oz soft, unsalted butter
200g / 7 oz sugar
1 heaped tbsp/ 15 mL Christmas-red paste food colouring
2 tsp/ 10 mL vanilla essence
2 eggs
175 ml/ 3/4 cup buttermilk
1 tsp/ 5 mL cider vinegar

For the frosting (needs to be doubled again)500g/16 oz icing sugar
125g/ 4 oz cream cheese
125g/ 4 oz soft unsalted butter

Butterfly cake

This cake was baked to go with the very hungry Caterpillar cupcakes, the 3 year old was a girl hence the pink and purple decoration. This cake was a tradional birthday cake, Victoria sponge,vanilla buttercream, strawberry jam and icing

The very hungry Caterpillar Cupcakes

I really enjoyed decorating these, they were baked for a 3 year olds birthday party I also baked a Butterfly cake for the main cake.

Hello Kitty Birthday cake.

This Hello Kitty cake was baked for a birthday, a simple Victoria sponge filled with tradional vanilia buttercream and strawberry jam , decorated with icing to create the face of Hello Kitty

Hummingbird Bakery

when in London I visited the Hummingbird Bakery, This made me extremely happy as I use Hummingbird Bakery cookbooks on a regular basis. The Cupcake I tasted was the lightest cake I had ever had!

Check out the Hummingbirds website
http://hummingbirdbakery.com/