2 GOLDS! and a SILVER!

WOOHOO!!!! Can you believe it?!!!

What a fantastic weekend, So many cakes and such a high standard of work to be seen, an amazing event! I meet up with lots of people from the 'British Sugarcraft Guild' Forum, and what a brilliant bunch of guys they are, they made the event what it was, a truly magical 2 days.   

I entered 4 cakes in total, 3 came away with the awards the 4th sadly was not judged on a technicality, a slight grey area in the schedual, but heyhoo you live and learn, and plenty of people still got to see it, hopefully giving some sort of inspiration to them all.

The 2 that got GOLD awards also came 2nd in there class too! So overall a FANTASTIC result!

So down to the nitty-gritty, "what did I put in?"

WEDDING CAKE of 2 or more tiers - GOLD & 2nd Place!

SCULPTED NOVELTY CAKE (all edible) - GOLD and 2nd Place!

NOVELTY CAKE (novel design) - SILVER!

CELEBRATION CAKE

Well what a week!

All the NEC cake's are packed up and ready to go, I'm off at 5am wish me luck and say hello if you see me :0)

2 new cakes have just been added to the galleries really enjoyed doing both of these, hope you like them too!

2 new step-by-step's have just been added to the "Want to learning?" pages. 

The 1st one "Making balls for boarders" shows you how to make small balls all the same size to go around the base of a cake to give it a fun  modern funky look.

The 2nd one "making edible pearls" follows on from the 1st, and shows you how to transform them into classy looking pearls.

NEC UPDATE:

I've now finished 3 of the 4 competition cakes, and I've just baked the last one tonight.  I'm so excited that it's nearly here and in 8 days I'll be showing my cakes and meeting my cakey friends in birmingham!!!   Maybe I'll see you there :0)

I had a lovely email from the lady who commisioned the suitcase cake for her parents, thank you for getting in touch, it's lovely to hear that it was well received.  Let's hope your parents now enjoy their travels as much!!!

Hello Elaine

Hope you had a good weekend away.

I would just like to say thank you so much for the suitcase cake you made for my parents. They loved it, and so did everyone else at the party, no one could get over how like them the figures were, and how great the whole cake looked, and tasted!

Thanks you again, will definitely use you again when need another cake, and will recommend you to everyone too,

Take care,

Sharon

Phew what a week, and nearly finished,  just in time for the half term break next week.  I still haven't worked out how to conect my flicker photostream with my blog, so if anyone techno knows how to, feel free to give me a clue, lol. meanwhile my photostream is http://www.flickr.com/photos/mystical_mischief/.

This was a very popular design with all the forums, the actual cake was quite easy to do, the tricky part was getting this little guy to balance and stand up!  It's also the reason that he's stood on a small cake board, one of those soloutions to a problem that actually complements the design.

The cake itself is a chocolate sponge with peppermint sugarpaste, mmmmmmm............smelt devine!

I really enjoyed making today's cake. It's for a lovely lady and her parents, who were off on a world tour to celebrate their retirement!! how romantic!! Hope you like it as much as I do.

An unussual request and had me scratching my head in more ways than one!!  If you're a mathematics entusiast you're going to love this cake, if not you might like to just look at it! lol (I know I did!!!!  lol)

A good friend of mine has made another free tutorial on how to make Lillies check it out if you've time at
http://www.duskyroseveiners.co.uk/page_999201.html . Pol is a very helpful lady, and I'll definately be having a go at these at some point using this tutorial.

I had the following email from Jane and Manse who had the chocolate wedding cake a few months ago, I'm so pleased your day went smoothly and everyone loved your cake, thankyou so much for getting in touch.

Good morning

I'm now one Flicker, under my online name Mystical Mischief for anyone who doesn't know it.  Wow what a great site lots of cakes to see and bake! bang goes my diet!  LOL

How on earth I'm going to keep track of it all I don't know but hey I love learning about this techno stuff, now it said I could link photo's with it......hmmmmmmmm.........will have to try and have a go at that, my apollogise now if a random photo just appears out of the blue for no other reason than just being there! LOL! ....................

Elaine xx

The 1st Tutorial is now on sale, I hope you all like it.  It's based on one of my favourite subjects 'fantasy', and with Halloween fast approaching what could be better than a 'Magical Wizard'. 

I'm now working on the second, which is the original Fantasy Castle, of which the design for the brochure is a smaller version of, and that I think you'll enjoy and want to have a go at.  Infact you can see a sneak preview of it in the wedding Cake Gallery.

Well better get on, have got to make the most of my time whilst the little 'uns are at school! 

Elaine x 

Hiya everyone,

Well this is the all new blog page, and all new too me also.  I'll now be able to come here and update you on things that are happening on a regular basis, and keep you updated on what's new!

I've exciting news, the 1st in what will hopefully be a series of informative step-by-step online tutorials will be avilable soon! so keep your eye's peeled for that one, and the new online shop will soon be open where you will be able to purchase tutorials and the the Castle Brochure. 

Also the NEC is approaxching fast, and I'm busy on my competition entries, I can't wait till I can share my creations with you, so much so I think I may burst! lol.

How do you like the new layout of the website? I'm working really hard to keep it simple but informative but all constructive criticsm is always welcomed, just please remember I'm a cake decorator and not a techno wizz, so be gentle with me. lol

TTFN Elaine x