Winnie The Pooh Cake

Hello, Well I guess I didn't do so well with the posting for the New Year, ah well. I shall keep trying through 2015. Its not been a bad year so far I am still working at a job I started last year and it will be a year in May! How time flies. Still making cakes for friends. Here is one I have just finished based on Winnie The Pooh.

Just popping in to say I am still here and will see you all again soon :) xx Priscilla x

Antique Wedding Party Cake.

Hello Dear blogging friends.

I know it has been a while since I last blogged. Lots has been happening. I am still job hunting and cake making. I thought I would share my latest cake with you all.

A friend in the new drama company asked me to make a cake for her dad, as he was getting married. This cake is for the Strawberry Tea Party they had after to celebrate.The couple enjoy car boot sales, antiques, and Bingo! I love antiques too and I know a lot of you here in blogland enjoy thrifting, I hope you enjoy the photos.

The couple are from Blackpool and Scotland so I looked at some vintage postcards and painted the design in food colours. I just love old postcards!

Hope you enjoyed the photos! See you all again soon. Hope you are having some nice weather!

Priscilla x

Roger Rabbit Cake

Hello everyone.
 I hope you are all well. I am happy to say the uk its getting a little brighter and the first sings of spring are here!

 I know a lot of you are familiar with my cake making so I hope you don't mind another cake post! ha,ha

I had some spare time in the School Half Term holidays, and so I thought I would try my hand at something I havnt done before, a car cake.
This gave me the chance to try some new skills, like carving the cake and using the airbrush I have had for a while and not used!

I wanted a slight twist on the basic car cake. I had seen a water globe on the web with this car in it. I love the Who Framed Roger Rabbit movie and thought 'why not'?

I thought about adding the other two characters but I didn't want to add too much!

This wasn't a cake order so I could just take my time and enjoy it. Here is the cake getting air-brushed with food colour. I had a bit of practise first on  an art pad!

Here is the airbrush and my home made holder ha,ha ;)

Hope you enjoyed the photos! I loved making this cake and now want to make more shaped cakes! What would you like to see in a cake if you could choose?

See u again soon

Priscilla x

Royal Wedding! Cake and celebration x

What a lovely day it was yesterday! Prince William got married! I watched the event on tv from around 9.30 am, then I had to deliver a cake to a friend who was having a 'Wedding Party'

I arrived at 11.00 am, just as kate was stepping out of the car to show the world her wedding dress. I was quickly ushered into the living room to catch the first glimpse! lol

I delivered the cake and came home to watch the rest..... Every other house I passed had bunting in the windows and flags flying. Since everyone had the day of work the air was filled with a wonderful atmosphere....
I loved making this cake, my friend said use your imagination and go wild! So I thought what better to have on a Royal cake but the queens Corgi dog celebrating the wedding with a cupcake!
I also added horseshoes,bells,roses and hand painted flags on the corgi's hat and cupcake topper!

And I wanted to share this.... How funny!! the best moment of the whole day. At around 3.00pm after the prince and his new wife had been inside for a while they emerged in this!

They chatted to each other laughing and waving, such a fun sight to see! Balloons were trailing behind with the words Just Wed. .... the crowds cheered and laughed.

A fantastic day..... hope you have enjoyed the photos
Priscilla xx

Winter Wonderland Cake

Happy Christmas everyone!

December has seen me decorating quite a few cakes. This cake was for auction at a black tie Christmas party event in aid of a local children's charity. The event was on the 14th Dec.What a great night, lots of music and comedy acts and items been donated to raffle and auction including my cake. The event was held at Blackpool Pleasure Beach!

I thought I would share a few photos of the Winter Wonderland Cake..

The reindeer is made by hand from sugarpaste and hand painted. This cake was a joy to make! I themed the decorations on old vintage Christmas cards. The sleigh was made piece by piece and painted too. Everything is edible and hand made. It took many weeks to make the decorations but I had fun and it went to a fantastic cause!

The snowflakes are made from royal icing.... the cake is a sponge cake with jam and butter cream and on the night 'Donnas Dream House ' charity went home with the cake! So I was very happy it went to the cause I was auctioning it for.

This cake let me go wild with advancing and trying new cake decorating skills. I painted this edible Santa plaque using food colours. His beard sparkled in the light as I used sparkle dust!!

A letter to Santa.....

The letter to Santa address reads:

Santa Claus

Candy Cane Lane

North Pole.....

A wonderful night was had by all and we raised 3,000 !!! I hope you have enjoyed viewing the photos of the cake.

Wishing you all a magical Christmas and a Happy New Year 2011!!

Priscilla x

Another Year Older! Feeling Festive..

Hi Everyone,

It was my Birthday yesterday! 32 where did the time go??? lol. I had a lovely day and celebrated a few days before with a Christmas meal with the drama group. A good time was had by all... I am the one in the festive red top! I am also wearing one of the Christmas pudding pendants from the previous post!

On the 27 th November we had the Christmas church fayre. I always make a cake to raise funds for the church and all the drama group helps out. this year we raised £26, so we were happy! Joan and I sat taking the guesses for the 'Guess The Weight Of The Cake' at the fayre.

I put the decorations up early this year. Usually they go up the 8th so they are up for my birthday on the 10th,but this year I felt extra festive and put the tree up on the 1st!!

Hope you are all ready for Christmas See you again soon

xx Priscilla

Christmas Pudding Pendant

Hi Everyone. Well here I am again, I have been busy creating more charms from Fimo clay. I love working with Fimo and since Christmas is on its way I made myself this....I have also added The Christmas Pudding to my Etsy shop! I hope you like it...

I have also just completed my first orders for these Pendants and Charms!!!

A Bakewell tart

Christmas Pudding

A Carrot Cake Cupcake

http://www.etsy.com/people/PriscillasCottage

Please feel free to check out my Etsy Shop !!

So thats what I have been up too as well as decorating a cake for the Christmas fayre this year, for 'guess the weight of the cake' I am going with a Gingerbread theme this year! I will Post photos soon....

Have a good week everyone xx Priscilla

Polymer Clay Cake Pendants!

Hello Everyone,

Sorry I have been away so long, I have been keeping busy crafting with Polymer clay and completing cake orders! Last week I made some Christmas Cupcakes....... These were a trial run for me and my family. Strawberry Frosting and Filling with Fondant decorations. I think they look like some of the Shabby Chic decorations! So I named them 'Retro Christmas' lol

I have also been making these! Polymer Clay cake pendants. I made these for myself a few month ago and I am adding more to Etsy which I have recently set up also selling cake decorations! I will be adding Christmas Pudding Pendants for Christmas let me know what you think.....this is a new project for me. I hope to be making more designs in the coming month.

Bakewell Tarts and Danish Pastry Pendants Each pendant is made by hand, no molds are used. The danish is glazed to look sticky and yum! I have enjoyed wearing these and I just love them......

If you would like to see what I am up too over on Etsy visit me here:
http://www.etsy.com/people/PriscillasCottage

I am feeling very Christmassy I know it's only November but I am playing the Christmas songs and Making Christmas cake decorations so christmas has come early to my home........ How is everybody set for christmas have you got your decorations up yet. I have a friend who has!

See you all again soon

Priscilla x

Snow White Cake

'Grumpy 'Sugar figure

Hi Everyone...

Here I am again with another cake decorating post. I have been very fortunate to have the same friend order 5 cakes in the last few month so she has been keeping me busy! And has ordered another for November....Yippeee. I am trying to get the business off the ground so it can become full time, so as many orders as I can get is a good thing....I hope she has many friends..lol

She told me about her daughters 4th Birthday party back in July and told me the date. Over the last few month I had a lot on my mind with my dads health I was sure the cake was needed for late Sept so was not too worried. I contacted my friend to see if she still wanted the cake and she said yes for next week!!!! I only had a week to decorate a two tier sponge cake and make all the decorations OMG PANIC!!!!

'Snow White' hand painted plaque

Snow White was the theme. I knew the little girl loves Grumpy and Dopey and we agreed to have two 3d figures and I would paint snow white in food colour. The figures are all edible, and based on the movie. She even lent me a book of her daughters for inspiration! luckily I managed to complete the cake in time but boy... I missed my usual prep time!!
' Dopey' sugar figure

Here is Dopey.. made from sugar paste. He is edible. Although he is supported with a cocktail stick. Which has to be removed first..

I took the cake to to my friend on the 4th Sept. She had hired a cute little chalet on our local peach promenade, it was small yet contained a kitchen, sink and a small table. I set up the cake and made use of the kitchen to add a few details on the cake. It was a beautiful hot day... I am pleased after such a shaky start the cake all worked out eventually!

Before all the details were added

I hope you enjoyed hearing about my recent cake decorating adventures! lol..

See you again soon

Priscilla x

Cake Decorating - And A New Venture!!

Hi Everyone,

This week I have been decorating a cake for a friend I havn't seen since school. We met on a social network site and she asked me to make a cake for her partners birthday. He likes to play the guitar and his favourite artist is Neil Young. She said it is a surprise from her and her daughters! I delivered the cake today... It was nice to see her after all this time.

Here is what I came up with..
The cake is a sponge cake with butter-cream and strawberry jam... 8 inch round

I do enjoy getting the opportunity to try new cake toppers in sugar. The guitar was a fun challenge. How to do the strings??? He plays an eight string guitar... I new I wasn't fitting eight strings on, but not to worry they got there in one piece! Something I was worried about with such fine icing..Phew !! ha,ha
My friend told me one of Neil Young's well known songs is 'Harvest Moon'.. I thought music sheets with the album logo and music notes would be a good idea. The logo and music is hand painted (with a new fine paintbrush which is now my favourite thing!)
I finished the cake off with a few quirky music notes on the side.... I was working at 11.00pm at night doing the last touches... so its a good thing I had planned quirky twisty music than straight lines! ;)

NEWSFLASH... Coming Soon

I do enjoy making cake toppers in sugar, where people can keep them for a while which many people do... Although I always thought it a shame they eventually have to be eaten... and a lot of people have mentioned they would like the topper to keep forever.

SO I have been working with a new media POLYMER CLAY . Now I can create Cake Toppers for people to keep. At the moment this is in the early stages but this is something I am hoping to develop and offer for sale here on the blog or Etsy.

Where I can create Cake Toppers for sale and provide requests. This is an exciting new venture for me and I will keep you updated!

See you again soon

Priscilla x

Cake..and more Cake..

Hi everyone..
It feels like spring is on its way in my part of the world. The sun is shining..Which is lovely to see!! So nice from the drab gray sky,although it is still very cold.

As most of you know I am a member of a local Theatre company, well last week a friend who is directing our next play asked me to make his Birthday Cake... and theme it around Theatre/Drama.

Comedy and Tragedy Masks

...is what everyone thinks of when thinking of theatre, I made these in paste and dusted with edible silver glitter dust...

'Admit One' Theatre ticket... Hand painted, with Bernard's Birthday 7.2. and this years date 10....The roses were also hand made.

' Spark In Judea' is the next play I will be in. Which Bernard is directing.

Some of you who visit my blog regularly may remember I also made a cake for Bernard's Birthday at Drama last Year!

Harry Potter Wizard Cake

Here is the link...
http://priscillascottage.blogspot.com/2008/02/harry-potter-wizard-cake.html

I hope you all enjoyed the pics... Its something I love to do

See you soon

Priscilla xx

Nearly Christmas....I am still here xx

Hi Everyone, Sorry its been so long..... My life has been seeing some changes...some good and others a little sad. My Grandma became poorly and has had to move into a care home and we have been helping her get settled in....she is doing a lot better now, and is coming to our family on Christmas Day !! As normal.... I have been a bad blogger so thought I'd share what I have been up too the latter end of this year 2009!

The Christmas Fair.....As usual my friend and I did the guess the weight of the cake back in Nov, and I decorated it... We took £30 for the church so we were happy! Here are few photos of the cake...

Some New Experiences...

I have recently started Volunteering at my local CANCER RESEARCH shop, so in the new year we will be having a good sort out and will be taking items to the shop.

It's a great working environment, great people..... I applied there as the advertisement read.... *Person Needed for Book Department*...... that suits me wonderfully, I love books and that is what I am doing, sorting books by author, Subject matter, pricing and (choosing the ones I want to read) ha,ha......... and general shop tasks... I do two days a week in the afternoon and I am enjoying it.

On 9th Dec, the day before my Birthday, I went out with some of the people from the shop to a Christmas show and meal... to celebrate the shop's 20th Birthday! It was a good night... (if you are new to my blog I am the one in white to the right! )

I hope you are all ready for Christmas and I wish you all the very Best for the New Year!!

Now things are calming down around here I should be around more often! I'll leave you with the last book I just read and enjoyed....

Santa Cruise - Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark. I enjoyed this book, it is a very light read, like a Disney Movie! The ratings on Amazon don't rate highly...but if you just want a fun, christmassy read. Its a good one....

* I tried to copy and paste a synopsis of the book or even a link to amazon but for some reason the option to paste on Blogger is no longer there?? What do we do now?

Happy Christmas Everyone and see you soon xxxx

Priscilla x