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With a creative eye and a high attention to detail in both baking and cake making I Specialise in Birthday and celebration/occasion cakes.

Incredibly tasty and highly detailed custom, bespoke celebration cakes made to order. No design or idea is too much.

24/09/2025

Aston Villa 3D football shirt cake to celebrate my son Freddie’s 10th Birthday. A rich chocolate sponge cake with a delicious chocolate buttercream filling, covered and decorated with fondant icing.

I cut and assembled the cake sponge to create the correct shirt shape. The time consuming part was the moulding and sculpting of the shirt wrinkles and folds before adding the material textures and the stitching detailing. I finished the cake off with a football pitch themed cake board and recreated Freddie’s actual football boots and goalkeeper gloves from fondant.

Was always going to be hard to top his huge stadium cake from last year but he loved it all the same.

Up the Villa..! 🔴🔵⚽️

24/07/2025

3D ‘Malgosha’ birthday cake based on the character from the hugely popular ‘A Minecraft Movie’.

A delicious vanilla cake sponge with a jam and vanilla buttercream filling. The cake was painstakingly cut, assembled and sculpted to the correct shape before being covered and decorated in fondant icing.

Most of this character is in a long robe but the main feature is the face, which I spent most of my time hand sculpting to get spot on. I loved etching in all the wrinkles in the face and the folds and flaps in the robe.

I really love creating these 3D cakes and bringing these characters to life (in cake form).

02/07/2025

“I’m Batman”..!

Two tier ‘Batman’ themed birthday cake. The cake tiers were made with a chocolate sponge filled with a delicious chocolate buttercream as-well as a refreshing lemon sponge filled with a lemon buttercream.

The cakes were assembled, covered and decorated in fondant icing to match the Batman theme. Both tiers were decorated with a detailed Gotham City skyline complete with the iconic ‘Bat symbol’ logo and name and age detailing. The cake was finished off with a 3D fondant figure of the Cap crusader himself…’Batman’.

Another amazing cake to have the opportunity to make for another of my amazing and supportive repeated customers.

21/05/2025

‘Wicked’ themed half and half cake inspired by the stage show and the hugely ‘popular’ new movie.

The cake was made using two traditional vanilla sponges and filled and coated with vanilla buttercream and jam. I decorated the cake with fondant icing with the half and half, contrasting pink and green colours associated with the theme before adding the final details. I hand made the edible flowers, witches hat and the very detailed crown to finish it off.

A very POPULAR cake theme to create which no doubt DEFIES GRAVITY..!🧙‍♀️🧹💚💖🪄👑

10/05/2025

“What are you doing in my swamp”.?

Shrek themed birthday cake to celebrate my son Ollie’s 7th Birthday. The cake was made with a traditional vanilla birthday sponge, filled with vanilla buttercream and jam and covered with fondant icing.

The cake was assembled and shaped to resemble Shrek’s iconic swamp house complete with handmade fondant characters of Donkey, Gingy, Pinocchio and everyone’s favourite green ogre…Shrek..!

“That'll do Donkey, that'll do.”

14/04/2025

2 tier Woodland themed Birthday cake. The bottom tier was made from a traditional vanilla cake sponge with a vanilla buttercream filling and the top tier was made with a coffee and walnut cake sponge with a coffee cream filling. Once the cakes were assembled, they were then covered and decorated with fondant icing.

A lot of long, painstaking hours went into the huge amounts of detail in this cake. Each of the tree tiers were each decorated to resemble an old, worn tree with all the wood grain carefully shaped and carved by hand. I then moulded and shaped large amounts of green fondant to resemble overgrown moss before adding the final mushroom and fungi all over the cake and base.

I really wanted this cake to look as realistic as possible with all the living aspects coming to life off the cake. The use of different shapes and colour tones to compliment each other and the use of edible powder to give a weathered look. I was really happy with the final outcome.

23/03/2025

Teddy Bear’s Picnic themed Birthday cake. A beautiful two tier birthday cake made with both vanilla birthday sponge and a delicious chocolate sponge cake covered and decorated in fondant icing.

The cake was decorated in a pastel green, garden theme with each tier including fence, bush and bunting detailing. I then meticulously hand made the tiny food and picnic details from fondant icing before finishing the cake off with the handmade and adorable teddy bear characters.

What an amazing cake to make. I loved making the teddy bear characters but the hours of making the tiny food items really paid off with the final end product.

Keep a look out next time you go down to the woods.!? 🧸🧺🥪🧀🍪

17/02/2025

‘Luca the Spider’ 3D character Birthday cake made from a traditional vanilla sponge cake and filled with a delicious vanilla buttercream and jam. The cake was cut, shaped and then covered and decorated with fondant icing to recreate the cute spider character.

I really love making 3D character cakes and being able to bring these characters to life on a larger scale for the wow factor. Recreating the characters large, distinctive eyes and the painstaking furry, fluffy body which was etched and carved by hand. 🕷️🕸️

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