Finished for the year!

Phew! That's it... I'm done. I'm exhausted. I have never been so stressed. But I did it! :oD

I've just finished my dad's cake. It's really simple, but looks sooooo cool! http://patacake-parties.blogspot.com/ (you can click on any photo on the blog to make it bigger) I think he'll get a real laugh from it. I hope so.

So, the #1 Winnie cake was all done on time. The mum was really really happy with it. Unfortunately, I didn't take a photo of it, so it's not on my blog. Otherwise, I could post the email she sent me

"Hi Suzanne

We just wanted to say a big ‘thank you’ for Amber’s number one cake. The Winnie the Pooh characters looked exquisite and the cake was the talk of the party and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it!

Kind regards

Lara and Lawrence"

So that was lovely!

The fairies cupcakes were done and sent. I haven't heard any feedback from those, so I imagine they must have been ok. They are so labour-intensive!

Katie was THRILLED with the cookies. I managed to make all 360 in time (120 star shape, 120 christmas tree shape and 120 round cookies). I also made a tub of little Christmas trees that I cut out of modelling paste (there were probably 150 of them?) and also I did a load of little flowers that I cut out with a blossom cutter. There were teeny-weeny stars, teeny-weeny snowflakes, teeny-weeny bows/butterflies (hard to tell) and teeny-weeny gingerbread men, all cut from some sort of sugarpaste. These were sent to me by my Auntie in Canada. You just can't get that stuff here. And even if you could, it's so cheap out there. I also bought 2 large tubs of hundreds and thousands, 2 large packets of hundreds and thousands and a large tub of silver balls... And along with the 45 tubes of Supercook Designer Icing, this is what the children were going to decorate the cookies with. When I made the round cookies, I made a hole in each one so they could be used as decorations, if threaded with some sort of ribbon. Katie thought that was just fantastic!

So, now I'm all done. I have to do food shopping for Christmas! But 'work' is over for now. I have a cake for 4th January, and then 70 cupcakes for 6th. But I'm not thinking about that for now.

Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy, prosperous 2008.

Suzanne x

Catch Up

I have been so busy, I haven't had a chance to sit down and update.

I did the Teletubby cake last week. Let's leave it at that. TinkyWinky is an ugly thing!

Then, I made Daniel's birthday cake. It was his birthday on Thursday, but we went out to celebrate on the Friday and so I took his cake to the restaurant with us. He had a 3D football. I suggested it, as I'd wanted to try one out. It was OK, but I made a mistake, which fortunately I managed to hide. Basically, you bake two semi-spheres of cake and then sandwich them together to make the football. However, I torted each half of the cake and filled with buttercream, then sandwiched them together. It just wasn't stable enough and so it started to go... like the Leaning Tower of Pizza! From the front, it looked OK. But from the side... uh-oh! So I made a football scarf to go around it, and that helped to hide it. I know better for next time and I wouldn't object to making one as an order. When Daniel saw the cake he said "I know you worked very hard mummy, but I really wanted a man sitting on top. But I know you tried hard". Bless him. What could I say? So I made a footballer. Red top, white shorts and white socks, as per Daniel's instructions! Pic over on my blog, here: http://patacake-parties.blogspot.com/

I'm currently making Winnie & friends for a cake for Saturday morning.

I also have a cake for my mother-in-law's birthday party this weekend. And I'm making food for the party, too.

I have to finish the 28 fairies for the cupcakes for the beginning of next week. And I also need to make the stand (which I hideously under-quoted for!)

My dad's cake shouldn't be too taxing.

Then there's just Christmas!

Oh, and I've got an order for 4th and 6th January! More about that later.

Suzanne x