Being a MA student means being broke. Which means being creative when it comes to presents. However, seeing as no-one ever refuses free cake, I tried and tailor cakes to fit the person….which has lead to some pretty tricky creations. Here are my favourites!
1. Pensieve Cake.
This is for serious Harry Potter fans. A triple layer chocolate cake, hollowed out and filled with blue butter cream, covered with white chocolate mist. I used royal icing to make the mystic runes around the outside. And to finish? A small glass jar filled with cotton wool and glitter to make Snape’s final memory. A gift from a Harry Potter fan to a HARRY POTTER CRAZY LADY <3<3
And just for some context-
2. Pokemon fairy cakes
For this, I picked the three greatest pokemon, used food colouring (oh so much food colouring) and royal icing to create them, and presented them to a truly wonderful chap….with a pokeball too. I asked him to pick one, he chose Charmander…
Gotta catch them all…
Be gentle with me pokemon fans- it’s been a while since I played!
3. Mother’s Day
With some homemade Hot Cross Buns, Daffodil cakes to show Mum how fricking awesome she is. Big love!
4.Wine and Cheese sophistication.
I don’t understand wine and cheese myself, so I put it on a cake instead. Blissful.
5. St Paddy’s Day
I have American friends now, as well as THE American, so I do the St. Patrick’s Day thing now. I celebrate with cake, so here they are…
That is enough for now…..but I’m sure there will be more soon, lots of birthdays coming up!
Unchained Baking 