Sunday 20 March 2011

I've made a few cakes in my time

I bake.  Quite a bit. It's like a sickness.  I get an overwhelming urge to weigh out ingredients and watch the alchemy take place in my kitchen as those ingredients turn into something scrummy to eat. I like to try out new recipes from my many cookbooks, some of these don't make a scrummy cake but I don't blame myself here (Nooo, not my fault! Recipes fault obv!).  I've made enough cakes to know I am a capable baker.  I don't often feel I can blow my own trumpet, I don't feel hugely confident about a lot of things I do, but I know I can rustle up a good cake, muffin, cookie etc at a moments notice.  I put it down to the greedy pig with in, the pig that needs to eat baked goods at a moments notice.  Because of the pig within I have accumulated a few knock out recipes which always get results, several dozen actually, I am that much of a hog.

And with baking comes decorating.  Can't say I took to cake decorating easily.  The first cake I decorated was not what I'd call a triumph, a gigantic learning curve would be a more accurate description. It really was pretty poor.



I'm glad I have improved as I went on!  That cake was rubbish but I was delighted with it at the time.  

I thought I'd pile a heap of photographs of past cakes into a post so that they are all gathered together somewhere. There are several cakes missing from this collection, hidden in the computer and I can't locate them.  Many of these cakes are direct copies of one I saw in a book, some I made up myself. Some where not my cup of tea AT ALL, but it's what was asked of me and I aim to please.  Some cakes went together beautifully, the Postman Pat one was thrown together in about an hour with a stonking hangover (the figures are plastic, I didn't model them). The football T- shirt took far too long,  it was deceptively difficult and I didn't enjoy doing it nor did I like the end result but my friends brother was chuffed and that's all that matters.


(Some of the pics are very shoddy because they were taken with my old phone)




I made the car not the cake it went on



























plastic dinosaurs














Now I'm all caked out, which is a good thing as Mini Cuckoo is four weeks old on Wednesday (that went quick!) and I want to get into some of my old clothes and so I have to go on a little bit of a diet.  Boo! I don't want to but I can't really wear yoga pants and leggings forever now can I?  Why put off the inevitable.  At some point I'll be so miserable with myself that I'll go on a diet anyway, may as well shorten the length of misery time, hey?  Also, remember me saying I am terribly vain?  Well, there you have it.  At least I'll be in a healthy BMI in a few weeks and that can only be applauded, Right?  Wish me luck!

xxx
ps.  Say "leggings" ten times, isn't it a funny word!




17 comments:

  1. I am hugely impressed at your cake decorating skills! Wow. It's like what you see in books!

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  2. Wow, your cakes are amazing! I also love baking but tend to stick to the same few, favourite recipes, and am not so much into the decorating - far too greedy and impatient!! (As a result I also need to diet but I have no willpower whatsoever, and hubby doesn't seem to mind either!! Must try and get back on the wii-fit though!)
    R x

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  3. De-lurking to say - your cakes are amazing. The flowers and butterflies are gorgeous - heck, everything is! And who wouldn't love a Postman Pat cake? Great job! :o)

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  4. Those cakes are fantastic! I have a go at decorating (my kids are under the assumption that I can knock birthday cakes out fairly easily, but when they ask for a panda or tortoise, I spend the whole day icing an fretting. It's not easy for me!) It's my daughter's 10th birthday party this weekend and she has said that she will decorate the cake, I just have to bake it. Yippee! x

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  5. Wow, there is no end to your talent, the cakes are amazing 'I takes me at off to ya'
    I had to say leggings 10 times....slegins!!!!!hehe
    Bless baby cuckoo 4 weeks, if you need only to lose a little weight you are doing very well.
    x Sandi

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  6. Fantastic! It looks gorgeous and classy. Nicely done

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  7. Well I am amazed you could put on weight baking/creating those cakes- they are sooo beautiful that I don't think I could ever bear to actually cut them open!
    Astonishingly beautiful decorations- the cute figures, beautifully delicate flowers and super accurate piping- WOW!

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  8. a good job! i am also amazed on what you are doing. lovely cakes

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  9. I love the Aga and bee cake best you are very clever.

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  10. Those cakes are amazing. I'm far more rustic with my baking. I think you have wonderful patience. My fav is also the aga! X

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  11. I have passed on a blog award to you on my blog, don't worry if you don't want to take part its quite a bit of work

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  12. Oh SHUT UP with the comments about the first one, the baby blocks. You must know they are fab too, don't you? Well you know I think your cakes are amazing, though I have no problem eating them as well as looking at them. You forgot to include B's naming day cake too, that was stunning. xx

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  13. P.S I sent the photos of the Aga to my exhusband, he is an Aga specialist here in Australia and naturally has one in his house.
    x Sandi

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  14. I don't know how you find the time or have the patience but you are extremly talented! They look like something you'd buy from a profesional..really..I'm very impressed! I had no idea!

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  15. I've just popped over from Bunny Mummy, your cakes are fantastic! The blue one with the amazing flower border is my favourite, it must have taken hours to make.

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  16. Wow!!! Your cake decorating skills are superb! I stress out just slopping icing and sprinkles on a cake. My favourite would have to be the square blue one with all the butterflies. It makes me happy and sad at the same time - happy to see such beauty and sad that I won't ever have one for myself :(

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  17. your cakes are FABULOUS!
    and yes "leggings" is a funny word, especially when I try to say it ten times (I have a lisp, so its even funnier)

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