Lily's Second Birthday!

It was Lily's second birthday on Friday, and on the Saturday we celebrated with the whole family at my house.

I made this cake for her - she's an avid fan of Peppa Pig.

The very moist chocolate cake was covered in a homemade marshmallow fondant (which tastes infinitely better than any store bought variety and is very simple to make), and the Peppa and George figures were made from the same fondant, but because it was quite soft they got a little tubbier whilst drying out. 

Lily had a few problems when it came to blowing out the candle, but after some help from her big brother, Noah, (and grandad too), we eventually got to eat it!  Delicious.

George ended up looking up at the sky - I'm thinking that maybe he saw an airplane or a bird overhead? !!

Noah's 4th Birthday Cake

Here are a few pictures of my grandson, Noah's 4th birthday cake.  You will see from his t-shirt that he is a great Mario Bros. fan.

My daughter, Katherine, and I had great fun making it.

His reaction on first seeing it, "It's the best birthday cake ever!".  I think he liked it.

Noah's Second Birthday

Monday, 5 August was Noah's second birthday.

A great day was had by all.

This is his cake.  Mum made the cake pop eyes, and I made the cake.

Happy Birthday Noah - One Today

Today my grandson, Noah, was one year old!  Where does the time go?  It seems only yesterday that he was just a babe in arms, and now he's all but walking.  We had a small gathering at my house for him today, and my youngest daughter, Katherine, and I made him a cake... what else, but Noah's Ark.

We found instructions in one of Debbie Brown's cake books.  It took us about 7.5 hours in total.Quite a marathon really, but it didn't turn out too badly.  All the decoration is made of fondant icing -  almost 4lbs of it.

Whovian?

While I think about it, here are a few pictures of the cake I made for my daughter's recent birthday.  She is a big Dr. Who fan, and I got the idea from a picture of a cake which I found online via Google images. 

I couldn't quite fit "Police Public Call Box" on the 'sign', but my daughter was more than happy with it, and that's the main thing.  Oh, and it tasted good too!

I had some problems photographing it and getting the colour right, but the second picture down is the closest to the actual colour the cake was.

I've also been working on a knitted project for my new grandson, Noah.  I'm almost done now (though I actually started it in the summer last year - before he was born!), and have only got to sew on eyes, nose and tail.  I'll post pictures when I'm done.