This cake was a long time coming. We’d planned this cake since July.. a Tinkerbell silhouette with lots of confetti, glitter and, of course, pixie dust!
Almond sponge inside sandwiched together with raspberry, caramel and covered in vanilla buttercream.
Now what better way to celebrate a birthday than to give someone who loves shopping, a cake made into a shopping bag..
This lady loves Zara so we made her a Zara bag cake. Coconut and lime sponge inside, sandwiched together with passion fruit curd and covered in vanilla buttercream.
For this creation we were asked to create a Harry Potter themed cake. So I could’ve made a book with a wand and a snitch like I did last time but no. This time I went for a simple design and recreated Harry Potter with his most defining features…
Sunday was a day of baking, baking and more baking!
At Cakes with Benefits we’re always trying out new recipes….
We made Lime and Blackberry polenta cakes, Custard Creams and two types of Meringue. Rose and Pistachio and Chocolate and Honeycomb.. YUM, YUM, YUM!
Friday 30th September 2016 was Coffee Morning day for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Cakes with Benefits made come cupcakes and one big lemon sponge cake for our local coffee shop. Macmillan do such a fantastic job supporting people affected by cancer, it was great to so many people raising money by eating and selling cake!
We loved making this Finding Dory cake. Lemon Sponge with lemon cream cheese frosting sandwiched together with lemon curd.
It was such a fun theme. We made all the colourful things from under the sea from fondant and used brown sugar to look like sand.
My favourite time of year is when I get to make my best friend’s daughter’s birthday cake. This year she’s turning seven and she wanted a Willy Wonka cake. So, that’s what she got…
The cake is rainbow sponge inside covered in buttercream, fondant and lots of different colourful sweeties.
I loved designing this cake. Such a fun theme! With the very sad passing of Gene Wilder, this cake is a tribute to him. The one and only, original Willy Wonka.
Do you want a Trio and do you want one now?
Trio bars are back! What better way to celebrate than to create a Trio bar cake?
To make sure it not only looked like a Trio but tasted like one, I started with a biscuit base then used two layers of chocolate sponge and one layer of vanilla sponge sandwiched together with toffee butter cream. I covered the whole lot in chocolate buttercream and then fondant.
As founding member of Retro Biscuit Club, there’s only one person deserving of a Trio bar cake… Happy Birthday Nick!
Has someone just bumped into you because they’re too busy looking at their phones, searching for the next Pokémon! It’s the latest craze and lots of people are obsessed with it!
So… here’s a Pokémon cake for all those lovers out there! The cake has a biscuit base, chocolate cake swirled with cheesecakey mix and some sour cherries. It’s topped with cream cheese frosting and fondant detail. Yum scrumdiddlyumptious!
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My little cousin Wyatt LOVES Star Wars so what better theme to have for his cake than a bit of each of his fave characters. Inside is chocolate madeira sponge and chocolate buttercream.
The bottom cake was shaped into a Storm Trooper using fondant and the top was a dome shaped into R2D2. A bit of shimmer spray to make him silver and shapes made out of fondant and there we have a Star Wars cake!
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