Caking for my Sanity

Caking for my Sanity Baking has been my hobby for 9 years now. It's a passion and I'd love to share my creations with you

💥 Battle of the B*tches 💥A very specific theme was requested by my 4 year old Daughter!Ghost Spider and Elsa fighting, w...
20/04/2025

💥 Battle of the B*tches 💥

A very specific theme was requested by my 4 year old Daughter!

Ghost Spider and Elsa fighting, with her favourite colours, Pink and Blue! It was definitely a challenge, but I did my best.

8 inch, Double Barrell birthday cake.
6 layers of rich, moist, Chocolate sponge, filled and covered with alternating Pink and Blue Vanilla Buttercream.
Decorated with Sugarpaste (all hand coloured by me) in a half and half style.
Edible figurines handmade and positioned onto the cake, with an adjoining aspect (Web and Ice from hands).
Backdrop created for both characters.

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🎉 Let's Salahbrate 🎉8 inch Double Barrell birthday cake for my Liverpool FC mad Son, for his 9th birthday.6 layers of mo...
18/04/2025

🎉 Let's Salahbrate 🎉

8 inch Double Barrell birthday cake for my Liverpool FC mad Son, for his 9th birthday.
6 layers of moist, rich Chocolate sponge, with Vanilla flavoured Red buttercream.
Hollowed out centre, filled with mini Chocolate footballs and Chocolate fingers.
Partially decorated with Black and White Sugarpaste hexagons for a football design.
Hand crafted Sugarpaste "Mo Salah" for the focal point.
Green buttercream was piped for a grass effect and more mini footballs added for finishing touches.
Awesome grass effect masonite board, really made the cake "pop"!
All toppers were handmade by myself.

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40 is the new 30 right???Cake for my sister's 40th (back in November 2023!! 🙈🤣 )Small 6inch, 4 layer Red Velvet Cake.Fil...
29/03/2025

40 is the new 30 right???

Cake for my sister's 40th (back in November 2023!! 🙈🤣 )

Small 6inch, 4 layer Red Velvet Cake.
Filled with and semi-naked covering of Cream Cheese Buttercream.
Various piping techniques used to create a unique and colourful design.
Decorated with a pink sprinkle mix and crumbled red velvet sponge.
Topped with a "40 & Fabulous" and Confetti Balloon topper.

Unfortunately, the buttercream was softer than I'd hoped and the piping didn't hold well 😔

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XBOX themed birthday cake 🎮🟢⚫️ for my Nephew.4 Layers of moist Chocolate sponge, filled with Vanilla buttercream.Covered...
08/08/2024

XBOX themed birthday cake 🎮🟢⚫️ for my Nephew.

4 Layers of moist Chocolate sponge, filled with Vanilla buttercream.
Covered with green buttercrem, then another layer of black buttercream, to create a fault line effect.
Letters carved from sugarpaste and painted gold.
Gold leaf was used to give the decoration some more detail, as well as gold paint along the fault lines.
Finally, some black and green "balloons" were added. However, for some reason I made ganache to cover them with, instead of just melted chocolate 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
It created a lovely shiny look, but dripped absolutely everywhere and would not dry!
Lesson learned 😅🤣

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Double Bubble Baby Shower! 🤴👸🩵🩷I designed this cake for a friend, who had already had 2 baby shower cakes from me previo...
08/08/2024

Double Bubble Baby Shower! 🤴👸🩵🩷

I designed this cake for a friend, who had already had 2 baby shower cakes from me previously.
She sent me a basic design to work from and I ran with it!

This double barrelled, 6 layer cake was the result.
I can't remember the flavours, as this was made last year, but all sugarpaste was hand coloured, moulded and painted by me.
A quilt effect was used on the sugarpaste covering, with edible silver balls. However, I did not have time to finish the balls on the back of the cake 😔
Finished off with (coloured) chocolate covered "balloons".

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This pup's got to fly! 🐶🚁💟This cake is actually from my daughter's 3rd birthday in April and I've only just realised tha...
05/11/2023

This pup's got to fly! 🐶🚁💟

This cake is actually from my daughter's 3rd birthday in April and I've only just realised that I never posted it! Oops!! 🤦‍♀️

3 layers of moist Chocolate sponge, filled and covered with Baby Pink Vanilla buttercream.
Skye's face and tuft of hair is made from sugarpaste, whilst the goggles and ears are made from various different shades of Browns, Pinks and Creams, using various different piping nozzles to create different effects.

The whole cake has also been sprayed with a shimmer spray for an even prettier effect ✨️

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The storm is closing in 🟣🌫‼️My son is Fortnite obsessed! So for his 8th birthday, it was the obvious choice for the them...
20/04/2023

The storm is closing in 🟣🌫‼️

My son is Fortnite obsessed! So for his 8th birthday, it was the obvious choice for the theme of his cake.

I didn't want to do the standard Fortnite designs (Crates, Battlebus, Llama, Bullets, Grenades etc), as I've done that before.

I wanted to try painting on the cake, specifically finger painting using food colouring.
The idea was to have Marshmello (hand drawn using an edible ink pen and carved from white Sugarpaste), in front of an 'out of focus' river scene, with the purple storm closing in around him.
I added a grass effect on top using the same method as the storm and made the "Reboot Van" from sugarpaste. The van was filled with a purple, white chocolate ganache, making it like a truffle!

The inside was four layers of my usual moist chocolate sponge, filled with vanilla buttercream.

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Mighty Pups save the day!My Stepdaughter made a special request for her birthday cake this year.A Paw Patrol Mighty Pups...
18/03/2023

Mighty Pups save the day!

My Stepdaughter made a special request for her birthday cake this year.
A Paw Patrol Mighty Pups tower, with all of the pups.
I decided to take on the challenge, but unfortunately ran out of time to do all of the Pups, so she was happy to just have her favourite, Skye.

At 15" tall, this is probably my tallest creation to date!
It is made up of a 4 layer, 8" moist Chocolate sponge, filled and covered with Vanilla Buttercream and decorated with Sugarpaste.
Large dowels hold the tower in place, which is made from RKT, covered with Milk Chocolate Ganache and decorated with Sugarpaste.

Yellow pipe cleaners were used to make the "zip line".

I'm aware that it isn't perfect, but I put a lot of effort and hours into this and am proud of the outcome.
Rome wasn't built in a day and practice makes perfect! 😊

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Birthday cake for my Husband, who is a huge wrestling fan.Inspiration was taken from the idea of his dream match.Everyth...
12/03/2023

Birthday cake for my Husband, who is a huge wrestling fan.
Inspiration was taken from the idea of his dream match.
Everything handmade by myself.
Only down side, was trying a different fondant and the quality not being good at all, it kept breaking! So this resulted in some pretty shoddy workmanship from me 😞

Nevertheless, the cake was enjoyed as usual!

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🦺🔊 HTID 🔊🦺Rave inspired cake for my Nephew's 18th birthday!(See final pic for my original vision)4 layers of moist Choco...
13/02/2023

🦺🔊 HTID 🔊🦺

Rave inspired cake for my Nephew's 18th birthday!
(See final pic for my original vision)

4 layers of moist Chocolate sponge, filled and covered with White, Vanilla buttercream.
Splatter technique using Neonz food colouring.
Hi-Vis vest coloured, sculpted and painted by hand.
Isomalt shards also coloured with Neonz.
Finishing touches of glow sticks, glow in the dark whistle and flashing candle holders 1️⃣8️⃣

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