This cake was especially created for a little girl who loves dolphins and all things pink! Rather surprisingly you do actually get pink dolphins in the real world – not quite this pink though!
Hobby Cakes
A person’s hobbies can give great inspiration for their special birthday cake. Here we have combined symbols from two hobbies with masculine colours to make a great cake for an 18 year old lad. All of our models are made from sugar so everything you see here is edible – even the horseshoe!
Wedding Gifts
This unusual twist on the traditional tiered wedding cake makes a refreshing change from the usual flower laden options. The top hat gives the cake a slightly more masculine feel and makes it popular with grooms.
The colours and patterns on the parcels can be customised to coordinate with your wedding theme and a bride and groom cake topper could also be added for that final personal touch.
Frog Birthday Cake
This friendly frog is ready to party! Scaling novelty cakes can be difficult but that’s not a problem with these cute matching lily pad cupcakes to make up the extra portions.
Mr Frog has now been joined by his lady friend, Frogmella! We don’t like to repeat a cake exactly so this version we changed to a lady frog and as an extra surprise for the birthday girl the cake inside was pink!
Cupcake Gift Boxes
We now have a range of pretty, top quality gift boxes available which are ideal for presenting our cupcakes. These great boxes are lined inside and out and have strong magnet fasteners and coordinating chiffon or gingham ribbon ties.
Available in two sizes, holding either 9 or 16 cupcakes, these keepsake boxes make an extra special gift for any occassion when filled with our delicious cupcakes. Use the Contact Form to get in touch and for details of available colours and prices.
Corporate Cupcakes
Get your company’s message in front of the customers in a novel way with our coporate cupcakes. Our edible printing systems enables us to add any logo and message to our delicious cupcakes, just get in touch to see how we can help you to celebrate an opening, anniversary or product launch.
P!nk Birthday Cake
Another great use for the photo cake – using an image of a favourite popstar is a great, cost effective idea for a teenager’s birthday cake.
The recipent of this cake is a P!nk super-fan.
VW Logo Cake
This simple yet striking design draws inspiration from the classic two tone bodywork of vintage VW cars and campers. The logo is finished with edible silver lustre for added sparkle.
Cupcake Catwalk
I recently spent a pleasant morning with Claire Sloane at the Exmouth Studio shooting some great pictures of some of my cupcake designs and a few whoopie pies. Whilst I get myself organised to post the photographs individually I thought I would share a few of them here on the blog. I think you will agree that Claire has done a fabulous job!
The cupcakes have all been designed to have attractive but robust decoration which will withstand a bit of travel as we are aiming to soon be offering mail order cupcakes. Keep an eye on the blog or follow us on Twitter for more news on this project.
Wedding cupcake selection
Vintage Rose cupcakes inspired by Cath Kidston prints
Superhero Cupcakes (my favourtie of the cupcakes we shot)
Sports cupcakes featuring tennis, cricket and golf ball designs
Personalised brithday cupcakes with star design
Chocolate Whoopie Pie with vanilla cream filling
Lemon Whoopie Pies with lemon cream cheese filling (my personal favourite photograph).
Football Shirt Cake
A simple but effective idea for a football fan’s birthday, this football shirt cake can be produced in any team strip and can be scaled up to feed a crowd or kept small for a birthday tea.
This particular version was produced as a surprise Groom’s Cake for a recent wedding. Groom’s Cakes are commonplace in America and becoming more popular in the UK recently. The cake is designed to reflect the hobbies, interests or personality of the groom and is a haven of manliness in the flower strewn world of weddings!
Shades of Red Ruby Wedding Anniversary Cake
A simple but effective design in shades of ruby to celebrate a 40th wedding anniversary.
Pink on Pink Wedding Cupcake Tower
We like a bride who knows what she wants and this bride wanted pink! With a different venue for the wedding breakfast and the evening reception the delivery of this wedding cupcake tower was made in two parts. The top tier was used at the wedding breakfast for the ‘cutting of the cake’ photographs then taken to the evening venue where the cupcake tower was assembled and awaiting the top tier! We hope to have a photograph with the top tier in place soon!
The World’s Sweetest Fudge Recipe
Whilst having a rummage through the book stall at a village jumble sale a while back I discovered a fantastically nostalgic kids cookbook ’The Octopus First Colour Library – First Cook Book’. The gorgeous illustrations and the recipes for peppermint creams, cheese straws and rock cakes took me back to happy days baking with my nan and my mum so I parted with my 10p and brought it home. Here it is:
As you can see by Little Mr IM’s face, we took this photo at the end of our cooking session! LMIM was most taken with it and we had to make a recipe from it that very afternoon – we chose chocolate fudge as we were a little short of time and ingredients! Whilst this recipe is super sweet, it does have a fudgy texture and it’s great to make with little ones as you don’t have to go through the whole boiling sugar stage! The pecans were an addition I made to attempt to counteract some of the sweetness and add in at least some nutrients!
Ingredients:
50g Plain Chocolate
50g Chopped Pecans
25g Margarine
200g Icing Sugar
1 Tablespoon Milk
1/4 Teaspoon of vanilla extract
Method:
Break up the chocolate into a small saucepan and add the butter. Melt over a very low heat then stir in the milk and vanilla extract. Stir in the chopped nuts.
Sift the icing sugar into a bowl then pour the chocolate mixture over and mix well. It gets very stiff so you might need to add a little extra milk at this point.
Press the mixture into a small shallow flan dish or baking tin, there’s no need to line it as it won’t stick. We both had a fit of the giggles at this point as LMIM made some unsavoury comments about what the fudge resembles at this stage 
Pop the fudge in the fridge to set, not forgetting the all important stage of licking the spoon.
Once set, chop the fudge in to squares. This recipe is seriously sweet and is definately more about the experience of having fun in the kitchen together and less about producing a top quality fudge. We found as long as we rationed it to one square a day nobody went into sugar shock!!
Tada!! Quick and easy and good for a giggle – try it out with your little one and let us know how you get on 
Cheeky Monkey Birthday Cake
We just love making cakes here in the Ice Maiden kitchen – that goes without saying! But sometimes when we are decorating the process just takes over. One minute you are looking at a freshly baked homemade sponge cake and the next minute a gorgeous hand crafted cake has appeared before your eyes! The intervening 3 or 4 hours seem to go by in a blur as the cake takes over and almost wills itself in to life.
This was definately the case with this fantastically fun kids birthday cake. One minute a scrummy lemon sponge cake, the next a cheeky little monkey swinging in a tree We hope that little Bobi loved him as much as we did!
Roadtrip – Cake International Part 3
After an inordinately long gap since Part 2, I am finally getting round to sharing the last of my photographs from Cake International. Having covered wedding cakes and carved cakes I would now like to share some of the amazing sugar modelling that was on display, so here we go…..
I love the texture of this piece – so clever how they have made the sugar look like crudely carved wood. I love the little dog
Steam Punk is on my list of cake designs I absolutely must try! I love the modelling on this, the faces are so expressive – especially the little dog.
I really like the choice of colours here, the bow on the top hat looks so soft and sumptuous as does the voluptuous lady. It’s no mean feat getting such a statuesque sugar figure to sit still and behave herself!
I remember these little guys very fondly and they have been captured perfectly here.
I’m not usually in to sugarcraft for it’s own sake as for me, it’s all about the cake. But this display piece was just amazing! Check out the tiny little pieces of jewellery in the dressing table and the fact there is rubbish in the bin and water in the dog bowl. Outstanding
Vintage Pearl and Tea Rose Wedding Cake
This beautiful vintage style wedding cake has an easy elegance with its draped strings of pearls and open, generous tea rose blooms. Each ivory sugar rose is hand made petal by petal and given a final, carefully placed dusting of colour to give the fainstest pink blush to the centres. The sugar pearls are then individually rolled by hand and painstakingly stuck into position to form perfect strings of pearls before being hand painted with edible pearl lustre. This cake really is a labour of love!
Pink Ribbon and Bow Wedding Cake
We first made this style of cake in deep purples and ivory for a birthday cake but it proved so very popular it wasn’t long before we were making it again! This time we have gone for shades of pink with a love heart design picked out in a pretty sparkly lustre. With a suble stitched banding around the tiers and a more open feel to the bow this version has an altogether more light and romantic feel.
Vintage Bird Cage Wedding Cake
This tall, elegant wedding cake was inspired by a Victorian bird cage design and is a perfect fit for the vintage trend which looks set to be hot well in to 2011. Shown here with a soft green and ivory colour palette, this cake can easily be adapted to your vintage colour scheme in soft pink or duck egg blue for instance. Or if you are having a touch of glamour in your day we can even create a gilded cage with handpainted gold lustre.
Black and White Blossom Wedding Cake
Your wedding cake doesn’t have to be big to be beautiful – with some clever use of colour and movement and an elegant pedestal stand a two tier cake can make a truly striking centre piece for your reception.
The black sugarpaste on this cake has a lovely soft sheen and the delicate white blossoms and offset square tiers stop the look becoming too heavy. The black also makes the perfect foil for the bride and groom topper, letting your little mini-me cake topper be the star of the show.
I like this shot – it looks like they just got down off the cake for a little stroll
Royal Navy Birthday Cake
We don’t think this cake could get more manly if it tried – the Royal Navy, Tottenham Hotspurs Football Club and fighter jets all one one cake!! It’s always fun when a customer comes to us and says “my husband likes X, Y and Z – can you put them all on a cake for me please?” Making the different aspects hang together can be tricky but the colours on this cake tied everything in beautifully. Of course it helps when you have this much space to work with!
The cake top featured the iconic Sea Harrier jump jet
The finished cake ties together nicely with the red, white and blue colour scheme
The white ensign and rope border on the bottom tier represent the Royal Navy
Boys 16th Birthday Cupcakes
We are always happy to help out in a pinch – this last minute birthday cupcake delivery was ordered, baked, decorated and delivered in under 12 hours. And we got a few hours kip, did the school runs and baked three tiers for a birthday cake in that time too - just call us Super Baker We kept it simple and masculine with a star theme in shades of blue, all presented in one of our lovely keepsake gift boxes which hold either 9 or 16 cupcakes. If you would like to have a gift box of scrumptious, buttercream topped cupcakes delivered locally just get in touch using the contact form or give us a ring on 01935 864273.
1970s Themed Birthday Cake
This funky little number was ordered for a big birthday but with strict instructions not to put the age on the cake The customer wanted to feature some 1970s classics with the main focus on the birthday girl’s favourite childhood toy – her Raleight Chopper! We also added in a space hopper, peace signs, funky flowers and a new penny to reflect the year of decimalisation. Acid green, orange and bright pink clash wonderfully for the perfect 1970s colour palette!
