MY FAMILY :)

Ok so ive been playing catch up lately because i only just started my blog i wanted to get all of my cakes uploaded so i can share them with all of you, but im gunna take a break from uploading my cakes and introduce you all to my little wacky family.

 This is me, my beautiful son Ethan and the love of my life Matt, My life is my family, I know alot of people say family is everything but to me there is nothing else. My family is MY everything. They are the reason that i am me and the reason i get up in the morning. All my friends at school wanted to be rich and famous or have high powered careers and big houses but me?.... well i just wanted a happy family, to be a mom and have a man that loves me unconditionally. I didnt care about having alot of money. The way i see it you can be rich and very very lonely or have a family that love you and yes not have a lot of money but be rich in love. I know to alot of people that sounds so cliché and a load of cods wollop but to me its true. No my life is not perfect we have our ups and downs, we dont have alot of money or a big house and fast cars but... we have eachother and that is all we need.I have been with matt for 13 years in march (2015) and i can honeslty say i love him just as much now as i did when we first met. 

We have been through the ringer these last 13 years there is alot to tell but i will leave all the details out or even start a new blog for you all to read lol, but we are a wacky lot, we laugh every day. We are not perfect... far from it, but thats us. Im thankful that i have them and i will always be thankful for them.
                                                       So thats us...MY FAMILY! 

I hope you enjoyed the little tid bit i gave you into my mad little life. Thanks for taking the time to check out my Blog.  :)

Edward Cullen Cake

TEAM EDWARD!! I love the twilight saga, ive read all the books so many time the spines are coming off the books and pages are falling out, ive watched the dvds so many times i have had to buy new ones lol. So you can all imagine how excited i was when my sister asked for an Edward Cullen inspired cake, i planned this cake for weeks, i didnt know what sort of cake to make whether to do the Cullen crest or make a vampire inspired cake and then i watched a few youtube channels and decided i was gunna try my hand at a portrait. i made a normal 10" square cake and covered with fondant then i traced a picture of Edward from the internet and cut his basic shape from another piece of white fondant, then i lay the tracing paper over it and used the back of one of my paint brushes and traced over his features onto the fondant. When i took the paper away i found that the features were now embedded onto the fondant, so i then painted the features on. once done i lightly painted the shading onto his hair. Then i carefully placed the fondant  onto the cake, i say carefully because as you lift the fondant it will want to stretch so being careful is an understatement lol. after all this i painted on some vines and flowers and butter creamed a border on and ta daa! Edward Cullen. I was well happy with this one, at first i didnt know people would know who it was meant to be but everyone recognised him so i was proud. This was a chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream. the border is vanilla butter cream. I hope you all like it :)

Cici Car Cake ( roary the racing car)

I was very worried when i was asked to make this particular cake because i hadn't long been making cakes and she wanted a 3d cici cake, i hadn't made a 3d cake properly yet and to make a car cake was really worrying, i thought so much would go wrong. I did what i usually do and found a picture on the internet and traced around it, i covered the whole cake pink and cut out the detailing with different coloured fondant and hand painted the rest eg, doors and bonnet. the cake itself is vanilla sponge with vanilla butter cream.As you can see i needed alot of practice in my piped writing, but i am better at it now, i still need practice but im getting there lol. As for the cake decorating as much as i found it tricky and time consuming i was happy with the end result.  

Horse Cake

I love horses so i was really excited when i got asked to do a horse cake and not just any horse cake a PINK one lol. i had alot of fun making this one. i searched horse head stencils on the internet and traced it onto parchment paper before i carved around it, if you have read my other posts you will know i dont like using shaped tins, as i said before they can be tricky to get out of the tin plus i find that doing it this way is a little bit more personal, i also like to hand paint alot of my cakes too, another little personal touch. This cake is made of vanilla sponge and vanilla butter cream with fondant decorations, the horses hair is vanilla butter cream i coloured pink with liquid food colouring.