Busy December

At the moment, December looks like this:

1st Spiderman Cake
7th Birthday cake for my younger son (at the moment, I think he's having a football)
8th I've a Teletubbies cake pencilled in (not confirmed yet)
15th Number 1 with Winnie the Pooh etc
16th Mother-in-Law's 70th birthday party, so a cake required for that!
18th 28 fairy cupcakes
20th 180 cookies
21st My dad's 65th birthday

So that's a possible 8 orders, although 3 of those are freebies for family members.

The Spiderman cake was an order I took over the telephone - the lady's son was desperate for a Spiderman cake and she did a Google search. My cake was on the first page :o) Very happy about that! Anyway, she obviously got my website through that.

Daniel's birthday is actually on the 6th, but we're going out for a meal on the 7th, so I'll take the cake with us to the restaurant.

The teletubbies cake is for the daughter of an acquaintance of my husband. They're not sure yet.

The number 1 Winnie cake is for a friend of a friend of my sister. Or something like that!

Mother-in-Law's birthday is actually 18th December, but we're making her a surprise party on 16th. I think I'm going to make her a cake that looks like a bottle of wine in a wooden crate. That's the plan, anyway.

I'm really pleased with the cookies order. Katie (the party planner) is doing a corporate Christmas party and as part of it, she wants to do cookie decorating with the children. So I'm providing her with: 180 cookies; cellophane bags; curling ribbon; 20 tubes of Supercook Designer Icing; and lots of decorations for the cookies, which will include glace angelica, gold and silver balls, and I'm going to cut lots of little snow flakes, christmas trees, flowers, etc out of modelling paste, so the children can stick them, with the icing, onto the cookies.

I would love to make my dad a black cab cake for his birthday, but I'm not confident enough in my ability to do one. And he's the critical type. So, what I thought I might do is a giant French Fancy... you know the ones - Mr Kipling does them. It's sponge with a good blob of buttercream on the top then it's covered in fondant and they're either yellow, pink or brown. What do you think? It's different! He does LOVE them, but his wife is very strict and doesn't let him have them, except for special occasions.