Butterfly wedding cake

This was the first cake I ever made in one island and flew to another to be iced and stacked. People said it couldn't be done but it actually wasn't that hard. As long as you have good sturdy packaging, there's no reason why a bunch of cakes can't survive a domestic flight.

Udderly delightful

Who doesn't love a cow-themed birthday party? I feel a little sad that I don't get to make icing bovines more often, because they are ridiculously cute. Maybe cow parties could be the next big thing.

There's a cake in there, honest!

I just realised when looking back at this Christmas cake that you can't actually tell there's a cake in there at all. It's a regular sized fruitcake but the icing is designed to make it look like a sack of sweets - which it does, perhaps a little too convincingly. In hindsight, the icing sugar may look a little more like dandruff than snow, but no one complained on the day.

Cake rock

This is the second of my instrument cakes. It's pretty basic to cut shapes out of cake and then whack on enough icing to make it look roughly how you want. I'm just waiting for someone to ask for a trombone. Or a flugel horn.

Festive Ginger

Gingerbread houses are one of the great baking cheats. They look so impressive but they're actually really easy to make and fun to decorate. I love making those bad boys with stained glass windows by crushing up boiled sweets and popping them in the window frames, if you will, while the gingerbread is baking. It doesn't matter if your gingerbread shapes are a tad wonky, as long as you have tonnes of royal icing to hold it together, no one will be the wiser.

My luv's a red, red rose

This wedding cake was baked at one end of the country and assembled at the other. Fortunately, the icing petals of the red rose which covered the top of the cake survived the journey admirably. I was given complete creative licence with this one so I decided to do something a little different. The bride was very happy.

Roses, roses everywhere...

I was beginning to think I'd never get a chance to use the fabulous plastic pillars I'd been giving in one of my cake courses until this wedding cake came along. They didn't exactly ask for pillars, per se, but I just went ahead and threw them right in there. Behold, the majesty of the towering tiers! The icing ruffles! The 40 lilac roses! I do feel like I could have added some icing drapery, but I was worried about going too far.