Morlyte wrote:although Joe would like me to make another Star Wars wonder I fear he will just have the cake with a flourish of icing sugar on the top!
You could make it one of the snowy planets? (sorry my knowledge is not that great!)
Jelly Belly wrote:I'm now advising my mother on cake decorating as she seems to have forgotten that SHE taught ME! A retirement cake will be made between us next week involving lots of daisy type flowers to go around the edge and I may or may not do a variegated colour paint job on the petals...
You and your mum sound like proper old-school sugarcrafters with the flowers! I need to learn some of that...
Kanga wrote:It is dd's birthday on Wednesday so I am doing a trial of her cake to take to nursery then the party's next weekend. I'm making Mr Funny so mostly just butter cream with fondant hat/shoes etc. I hope anyway! Need it to be fairly easy due to the small cluster feeding one!

Would love to see pictures of all of these cakes if anyone wants to upload them to the flickr group?
FOZzy wrote:Baby shower cake was a big success just figuring if I have enough energy left to make dh a cake for his birthday. My sister did a cute hello kitty cake today.
The babyshower one was great.
Marmite wrote:Its a massive square victoria sponge cake - but he wants gordon on the top pulling a coach with the passangers of the gruffalo mouse snake and fox there are others but he seems to have forgotten them "say thanka ya Big-big" --- I've decided to do them 3D
Wow! I made a gruffalo's child and mouse recently which was lots of fun. Happy to share photos/tips etc if you want them.
My peas are gone as well as my marbles.