Melanie Ferris Cakes News

In December I made a baby 'reveal' cake, but made a blue and a pink cake as I did not know what gender the baby would be. As the baby turned out to be a girl I had an 8" round blue cake left over, which I froze and that is what my daughter got for her birthday. I iced the cake and then allowed her to decorate it. She has a favourite hat, which she wears at any time she is not in bed or at school classes. So she reproduced the hat on the top of the cake, virtually life size. The children at her party absolutely understood the reference. It was also fun when the cake was cut to see blue and white striped layers.



By the way, I did not give my daughter the unfortunate name of Milo, that is the name of the hat.

This was an 18th birthday cake I made last week. It was a lovely commission and I thoroughly enjoyed making it. I was very pleased with the finish, it was so neat. Everything was edible except the diamante on the diamond solitaire ring. It was a large cake, 12" x 8", probably larger than your average jewellery box and would feed nearly 100 guests with a 1" finger of sponge cake.

I made this cake last week for Jack who was very proud of the fact that he had scored 4 hole in ones during his golfing career. So I piped 'hole in one' on each of the four sides of the cake, on the board, making 4 in total. He was given a lovely party at Stock Village Hall, which was decorated beautifully. Because of the snow it was quite a worry if the guests would arrive, but they did and everything went off well.

His wife sent me this note abouit the cake:

"It was delicious and many compliments were voiced on how lovely it tasted and looked. Thank you."

Here is an 18th Birthday Cake for a young man who is into Musical Theatre. The cake represented the stage and then the flyers for some of the actual productions he has been in are reproduced across the stage. Red sugar curtains and theatrical masks complete the scene.

This is the note I received about it:

" Hi Melanie,

Just wanted to drop you a note to say thank-you for the fantastic 'theatre' cake you made for my son's 18th birthday. He loved it as did everyone who came to the party. It also tasted just as good as it looked. "

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This was an 8" fruit birthday cake for the mother of a lovely friend of mine. It had marzipan and white icing, a 70 made of pink icing and two sprays of sugar flowers, including roses, lily of the valley, blossoms and variegated ivy leaves. The inscription was piped in Royal Icing and the cake was finished off with a pink sugar ribbon round the sides, with a bow at the front.

When Pam ordered a chocolate birthday cake with a Justin Bieber theme she brought me some edible pictures of Justin Bieber to go on it. So I made them into lollipops! Here is Amy's 18th birthday cake with white and milk chocolate cigarillos, white chocolate ruffles, milk chocolate roses and the pictures of Justin Bieber. Just before it was collected I also added strawberries dipped in milk chocolate.

I was asked to make a birthday cake for a chocoholic, but the design was left up to me. I decided to go to town, wrapping the cake with milk chocolate, and adding chocolate roses, chocolate cherry blossom and chocolate calla lilies, finishing with a chocolate plaque with name and age.



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This was a very neat birthday cake. With an artist in mind I made a wooden palette, with circles of coloured paint, a couple of brushes, and a couple of tubes of paint. For the sides I continued the theme of coloured circles, giving a modern, colourful cake, well suited to a celebration.

This was based on a 40th birthday cake I have in the birthday section of my website. Shaped like a Number 1 with primary coloured stars, some on wires, guaranteed to catch the eye of a baby, with the name Finley in blue also on wires.

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This cake was made for a dancing teacher, but would also be appropriate for an older ballet student. There is a pair of sugar ballet slippers, a spray of pink roses and some stencilled dancers round the side. I made the stencils myself as I could not find any cutters or stencils ready made. It was all rather fun, and something I don't often make.