Today and we celebrated my friend at works birthday over breakfast and what is the best thing to eat for breakfast? CAKE!

My current favourite book or books I should say are by Zoe Clark who is the founder of The Cake Parlour.  I think she is a genius and I love her feminine, not fussy and simply fantastic cakes designs. I find her very inspirational and hope that one day I reach her level of cake decorating talent.  You may wonder why I am telling you this.. well it is because she was my inspiration for the cake I made for my friend Tracy.  My aim was to make a very simple, non fussy, feminine cake and I am very happy with the final result!

The pictures at John Lewis café and it just so happened Tracy's tea came in a matching teapot!

This cake gave me a chance to practice a little with royal icing which is something I really want to master the art of but the only way to do this is practice! 

Here are a couple more pictures:

Happy baking everyone :o)

I was asked to make this cake for a friends sister who sadly passed away recently having suffered with Cystic Fibrosis.  Portia had pink roses at her wedding and my friend asked that I create some pink fabric roses cupcakes.  I went slightly off brief as I thought it would be lovely to include a 6" cake also covered in fabric roses and flowers.

Here are some pictures: