Snow Leopard And Cub Cake
It was J's birthday, and as he's still snow leopard-mad, he requested (and by requested, I mean drew a design for and left it lying around the kitchen were he knew I would see it) a cake with a snow…
Kitten Playing Football
My youngest son requested a birthday cake with his new kitten, Bella, on. As his other favourite thing is football, I decided to combine the two and came up with this cake featuring his kitten playing football in the grass.…
Harvest Allotment Cake
Having two children, that means I need to provide two donations to the local harvest supper auction, so my second was this harvest allotment cake. With carrots, beetroot, parsnips, cauliflower, cabbages and potatoes, there is something for everyone (all made…
Harvest Scarecrow Cake
This harvest scarecrow cake was made as an offering for the local church's harvest festival supper. My sons' school hold a supper, in conjunction with the church, followed by an auction, and the funds raised go towards supporting a child in…
Anfield Cake
When your soon-to-be 9 year old asks for a birthday cake in the shape of Anfield, what can you do? This is my usual madeira recipe, with vanilla buttercream and strawberry jam. I made the cake from two 8" square…
Goosander
I'm quite pleased with this, which is a bit of a rarity :) Edited on account of my ornithological skills being a bit rubbish ;)
My Princes
Ok, so I know it's not a great photo, but seriously, when they are this cute, that hardly matters. Today we had a photographer come to take photos of them dressed as princes for an article in a newspaper (more…
Woodland Walks
We had another lovely walk hunting for geocache in Gelt Woods, near Brampton, and I couldn't resist showing you this picture of Ben, peeping out at me. It's a great walk in the wood there - water, trees, flowers, birds...…
Glass Pebbles
I was playing about with these glass pebbles, and rather like this photo (complete with Josh)
Bathtime
A gorgeous, if last minute, photo of my incredibly handsome eldest son, in the bath tonight. Boys don't deserve to have eyelashes like that.