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My first attempt at Macarons! Pretty chuffed and tasted bloomin' delicious.

I made this last minute one weekend to show a woman who was interested in having me help her with  her company in London. I got the job.

Cupcakes I made for my charming and beautiful niece and nephew. Gone in 60 seconds.

A christmas gift for a dear friend of mine. Inside were homemade brownies, macaroons and chocolate covered almonds. I popped this in the post as a little surprise as the poor sod didn't have a Christmas calendar- God forbid! It was so much fun to make but did take quite some time to draw pictures for each window!

First covered cake

So after many bakes, comissions for friends to do their birthday cakes, a cake for a clothing company and various other small projects, I realised that I needed to know more. I needed to start taking it seriously as nothing else was fulfilling me in the same way. Food has always been my speciality; I'm a foodie, I love good grub and I love the feeling of feeding people good grub. I'm also very artistic but along with my poor concentration skills, OCD and fear of failure, the pieces of art I created were just never good enough in my distorted eyes. At least with cake, it's always guaranteed to make someone smile, which ultimately is the main point for me. Also, I find I'm much more creative with sugar so visions and ideas develop more easily.

So here is me with my first covered cake in sugar paste (only ever covered in buttercream) after a class I wish not to disclose as I wouldn't want you to waste your money. But nor do I want to name and shame.
We were told to make either a handbag cake (urgh) or a car. I turned my ski jump nose up at both options, made a fuss and wha-do-ya-know, was allowed to make a character from my favourite film Totoro. (I think mainly to shut me up).

We also made cupcakes. But really, cupcakes shmuck-cakes, I couldn't give a damn. They're just as naff as the handbag idea. I will not post these.

Gotta start somewhere...

First post. Where it all began.

An oppurtunity to provide some of the first ever pictures of my cake creations, starting at the tender age of 14. (It was earlier but I unfortunately have no photographic evidence to back this claim). Not much to say about this. I'm not ashamed. But using buttercream for icing is the trickiest darned thing and if only I had known about the gloriousness of sugar paste, I could have really gone to town. (hah)....because, I really didn't go to town....at all...