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Tuesday, 15 November 2016
I'm still here, baking and decorating and trying to have a life! For a long time it seemed like I did nothing but cakes and that had to change for my sanity. I have however neglected my little website/blog and it's time for a catch-up!
It's been a crazy wedding season with some beautiful and quirky cakes so let's just share a few...
It's been a crazy wedding season with some beautiful and quirky cakes so let's just share a few...
Cherry blossoms and ruffles
Rustic cake tree
A very special cake for "The Queen"
The final touches
Buttercream roses
Silver leaf and damask stencil
Graffiti and bold drip
Vintage Alice
Harry Potter suitcase
Cupid and Psyche
Oberon and Titania
Bold and beautiful
I hope to not leave it as long till next time, but I won't make any promises, rest assured I will be working away regardless. Kathryn xxx
Monday, 9 November 2015
If anyone knows my work they will know I love styling each of my wedding cakes. Sometimes it is not all that easy when it comes to venues and cake, so when I am designing cakes for the wedding fairs I attend or photoshoots, I always consider how it will be displayed, hence the speed at which I have filled my little cake studio in a few years!
Accordingly, my latest acquisition is a cake tree, and here she is,
To show just how versatile she is, I have already styled her 3 times. She has also been booked several times for 2016 and I cannot wait to speak with my couples and find out their themes and ideas so I can get to work on styling and accessorizing each one.
Her first outing was at the Quirky Weddings Alternative Wedding Fair in September 2015. I always like to follow a theme and for Quirky this time round I chose the theme Legendary Loves. Believe me, it was incredibly difficult to narrow down the couples I would design my cakes around but with my cake tree as the basis for one, Cathy & Heathcliffe from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte was like the perfect choice. I wanted each cake to be rustic and simple, hence a simple ganached choc fudge cake dressed with Sweet William, a vanilla buttercreamed semi-naked cake with a beautiful wooden "forever & ever" cake topper, and finally a chocolate ganache bundt cake dressed with pomegranates, physalis and figs. To echo the moors location of the novel, ferns and heather from the Candytuft garden were used to dress the tree.
The next theme for the cake tree was unmistakably autumn-inspired, my favourite season. I adore the dry, bright, but increasingly chilly days and the amazing autumn colours. The cake tree lends itself to rustic styled cakes so semi-naked cakes were fitting and a little single tier, tree bark effect, cake dressed with the cutest mini pumpkins completed the cake along with his 'n' hers toffee apples, candles, pine cones, apples, gourds, physalis, figs and autumn leaves.
Finally, my love of all things Narnian took over for the third theme. A winter wonderland inspired offering with the prettiest of snow covered decor and a special homage to Aslan on the iced cake. It can be tricky to organise photoshoots with 3 little ones to consider but we have a beautiful little space in our very own garden with an antique fire place and paving so I got to work. Meanwhile, my ever willing husband, Mr Candytuft, aka Shoot for the Moon, prepared to do his thing too, as he does for all my cakes. An antique silver tea set, Christmas stockings, candles, decorative trees, a cute little, frosty, wooden sleigh, along with the cakes and, of course, some turkish delight made the theme come alive.
I really hope you have enjoyed looking at each one.
Kathryn xxx
(no one was harmed during the making of these cakes, although it could quite easily have been the case as Mr Candytuft managed to break both a decorative gold mirror tray and a mercury glass candlestick: it's as well he takes a good photo!!!)
Accordingly, my latest acquisition is a cake tree, and here she is,
To show just how versatile she is, I have already styled her 3 times. She has also been booked several times for 2016 and I cannot wait to speak with my couples and find out their themes and ideas so I can get to work on styling and accessorizing each one.
Her first outing was at the Quirky Weddings Alternative Wedding Fair in September 2015. I always like to follow a theme and for Quirky this time round I chose the theme Legendary Loves. Believe me, it was incredibly difficult to narrow down the couples I would design my cakes around but with my cake tree as the basis for one, Cathy & Heathcliffe from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte was like the perfect choice. I wanted each cake to be rustic and simple, hence a simple ganached choc fudge cake dressed with Sweet William, a vanilla buttercreamed semi-naked cake with a beautiful wooden "forever & ever" cake topper, and finally a chocolate ganache bundt cake dressed with pomegranates, physalis and figs. To echo the moors location of the novel, ferns and heather from the Candytuft garden were used to dress the tree.
The top tier of the tree was dressed with a framed quote from Wuthering Heights and some beautiful roses.
The ganached chocolate cake dressed with Sweet William in the most gorgeous jewel colours.
The chocolate ganache bundt cake dressed with fresh pomegranate, physalis and figs.
The bottom tier was styled with a little engraved, mirrored, silver tray, a vintage copy of Wuthering Heights and a vintage style pocket watch.
The semi-naked chocolate fudge cake finished with a gorgeous 'forever & ever' wooden cake topper.
The next theme for the cake tree was unmistakably autumn-inspired, my favourite season. I adore the dry, bright, but increasingly chilly days and the amazing autumn colours. The cake tree lends itself to rustic styled cakes so semi-naked cakes were fitting and a little single tier, tree bark effect, cake dressed with the cutest mini pumpkins completed the cake along with his 'n' hers toffee apples, candles, pine cones, apples, gourds, physalis, figs and autumn leaves.
Finally, my love of all things Narnian took over for the third theme. A winter wonderland inspired offering with the prettiest of snow covered decor and a special homage to Aslan on the iced cake. It can be tricky to organise photoshoots with 3 little ones to consider but we have a beautiful little space in our very own garden with an antique fire place and paving so I got to work. Meanwhile, my ever willing husband, Mr Candytuft, aka Shoot for the Moon, prepared to do his thing too, as he does for all my cakes. An antique silver tea set, Christmas stockings, candles, decorative trees, a cute little, frosty, wooden sleigh, along with the cakes and, of course, some turkish delight made the theme come alive.
I really hope you have enjoyed looking at each one.
Kathryn xxx
(no one was harmed during the making of these cakes, although it could quite easily have been the case as Mr Candytuft managed to break both a decorative gold mirror tray and a mercury glass candlestick: it's as well he takes a good photo!!!)
Friday, 22 May 2015
Last week saw my first outing at the Frock Around the Clock Vintage and Handmade Wedding Fair at Malone House. Over all the wedding fairs I have done this was the first one that I manned myself, although Mr Candytuft was just beside me under his own name, with his photography business, Shoot for the Moon. It was a lovely day, with lots of happy couples stopping by for a chat and some cake and a wee sneaky homemade marshmallow too.
I have always struggled on deciding which display cakes to take to wedding fairs and inevitably end up taking lots. If you have ever been to a fair where I have been exhibiting or seen photos you will know that I don't just take cakes, there are the cake stands and little ornamental details, not to mention the furniture to display it all on. That's where our VW Touran comes in handy and of course the man to load it all up, Mr Candytuft!
Did you know that all my furniture, and cake stands, and ornamental details are all available for you to hire too? If you ever see anything in any of my photos or at shows and think you would like to hire some items please just ask. I do hope to, one day, have a space where all the items available for hire can be displayed properly for you to see, but we will have to wait on those plans, patiently!
So here is a little photograph of my stand from Sunday's fair, courtesy of Shoot for the Moon.
Gold was kind of a running theme, with the Merchant Great Room inspired cake, Empire Music Hall cake, pink carousel cake, Steampunk cake, Alice in Wonderland trio, Cinderella's slipper and pillow and Sleeping Beauty gold bird all featuring rich gold accents, then with the chalkboard/tree trunk and elegant red roses cake thrown in too. Looking back, choosing which ones to bring along was not difficult, choosing which ones to leave behind however, was!
I hope, if you visited the fair, you had a fab time, I know I certainly did, here are some of the other fab exhibitors you may have seen too!
Shoot for the Moon
Lulu and Belle Vintage and Antique Jewellery
Eden Stationery
Tippy Longorio MUA
Archive 12
Innocent Chaos
Back Alley Beats
Balloon Candy
Amilo Weddings and Events
and of course Frock Around the Clock to keep up to date with wedding inspiration!
Kathryn xxx
I have always struggled on deciding which display cakes to take to wedding fairs and inevitably end up taking lots. If you have ever been to a fair where I have been exhibiting or seen photos you will know that I don't just take cakes, there are the cake stands and little ornamental details, not to mention the furniture to display it all on. That's where our VW Touran comes in handy and of course the man to load it all up, Mr Candytuft!
Did you know that all my furniture, and cake stands, and ornamental details are all available for you to hire too? If you ever see anything in any of my photos or at shows and think you would like to hire some items please just ask. I do hope to, one day, have a space where all the items available for hire can be displayed properly for you to see, but we will have to wait on those plans, patiently!
So here is a little photograph of my stand from Sunday's fair, courtesy of Shoot for the Moon.
Gold was kind of a running theme, with the Merchant Great Room inspired cake, Empire Music Hall cake, pink carousel cake, Steampunk cake, Alice in Wonderland trio, Cinderella's slipper and pillow and Sleeping Beauty gold bird all featuring rich gold accents, then with the chalkboard/tree trunk and elegant red roses cake thrown in too. Looking back, choosing which ones to bring along was not difficult, choosing which ones to leave behind however, was!
I hope, if you visited the fair, you had a fab time, I know I certainly did, here are some of the other fab exhibitors you may have seen too!
Shoot for the Moon
Lulu and Belle Vintage and Antique Jewellery
Eden Stationery
Tippy Longorio MUA
Archive 12
Innocent Chaos
Back Alley Beats
Balloon Candy
Amilo Weddings and Events
and of course Frock Around the Clock to keep up to date with wedding inspiration!
Kathryn xxx
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