Hey, Maaario!

Perhaps my most ambitious cake yet?!

I used a circular Victoria Sponge for the bottom tier (covered in green icing) and smaller circular sponge (about 5 inch diametre) for the top, iced in blue. I then stuck on white icing clouds to the blue sponge, along with yellow stars. I made Mario and Yoshi from sugar paste and stuck them on with jam, and then made the mushrooms and yellow ? boxes from more sugar paste, all coloured with dye. I added extra detail with icing gel pens.

Swoooosh

I made my ma and bro a ski themed cake for their birthday:

I stacked two circular sponges and then shaped them to vaguely resemble a moutain, before covering in white roll out icing and placing on a cake board. Next, I scattered icing sugar over the whole cake for a snow effect and added snowflake shaped sprinkles (thanks, Waitrose!) before decorating with flags (oh, more cocktail sticks!) and real (yes, real!) fir trees with the ends sellotaped so not to ruin the cake. I made the skis from icing and then the figures are actually Star Wars action figures - Princess Leia and Boba Fett! - with my ma and bro's faces stuck on. Easy peasy!

Albi the Racist Dragon

Inspired by Flight of the Conchords!

Albi and the badly burned Albanian boy are just sugar paste coloured and then placed onto an icing base. The fire I did with glitter icing from Waitrose and edible gold glitter from Cake Craft (http://www.cakecraftshop.co.uk/)

I can do sensible cakes too...

I made this for Maggie Jones's birthday: a victoria sponge with strawberry jam and vanilla cream iced in yellow with daisy decorations. I got my daisy cutter from the Cake Craft website (http://www.cakecraftshop.co.uk/) and it's fantastic!

Ariba!

Burrito cake! I made the sponge in a loaf tin and then coloured some roll out icing brown and wrapped it around the loaf. The filling is made from icing and yum-yums chopped up, and the figure is made from sugar paste. Then I just wrapped foil around the end for added burrito effect!

For burrito fans everywhere, if you find yourself hungry in London, head to Chilango on Fleet St. Big fat burritos and lovely staff that inspired this cake!

My First X-rated Cake

I never wanted to go down the road of making obscene cakes, but Jo-Anne-San's birthday demanded it, hence the Showgirls cake. Just be grateful I went for one of the tamer aspects of the pool scene...

Oh dear.

Set phasers to stun!

My dad is a big Star Trek fan...his birthday cake was a no-brainer:

I had creative help on this cake from Tom Windsor who helped me with cake logistics and also painstakingly iced all of the tiny windows on..which took ages! This cake is just a circular sponge iced in white roll out icing and then propped onto an oval platform with the two 'wings' (if they're called that - I ain't a trekkie) placed on top. We decorated the whole thing with icing pens and added addtional detail with, yep, you guessed it, cocktail sticks! Always a winner!