| Handmade cakes and cupcakes for birthdays, weddings and anniversaries |
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A really super and large cake featuring Spongebob, hand made and painted to look like the real thing! Complete with a sea theme and glistening ‘water’.
This cake is finished with a hand piped and painted plaque to keep. This cake will feed around 30 people or more.
A pretty cake for any High School Musical fan. Made triple layer for total indulgence from chocolate sponge, with marbled fondant icing like the swimming pool theme in HSM2, with a cake topper showing the gang jumping for joy.
This cake is finished with a huge ribbon and bow in striking red and a personalised hand piped sugar plaque to keep and enjoy for many years to come.
We are listed in Cooks Wedding Cakes:
Wedding Cakes Berkshire
The easy, but not very helpful, answer is that “it depends”. Obviously, the type of cake and the other food being served may affect the sizing, however, as a rule of thumb, the following table gives an idea:
| Size (cm/Inches) | Sponge or Chocolate | Fruit | |||
| Round | Square | Round | Square | ||
| 13cm / 5″ | 7 | 8 | 14 | 16 | |
| 15cm / 6″ | 11 | 14 | 22 | 27 | |
| 18cm/ 7″ | 15 | 20 | 30 |
40 | |
| 20cm / 8″ | 20 |
27 | 40 | 54 | |
| 23cm / 9″ | 27 | 35 | 54 |
70 |
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| 25cm / 10″ | 34 | 45 | 70 | 90 | |
| 28cm / 11″ | 43 | 56 | 86 | 112 | |
| 30cm / 12″ | 50 | 70 | 100 | 134 | |
Everyone is different. Some clients know exactly what they want. Some have a rough idea but want pointers and help. Others want lots of suggestions and advice (often not just about cakes!).
In the end, everyone wants to have the confidence that comes from working with a trusted pair of hands.
Initially, we’ll set up a very informal chat (at my house, or wherever is most convienient/comfortable for you), which is completely no-obligation and free. We can discuss your requirements and I can sketch out some designs and suggestions. If you already have some pictures of cakes which you like, feel free to bring them along!
If you like my ideas (and I hope you will) we take the planning and arrangements further.
My phone number and email are shown at the top of the page.
I am based in Berkshire but have completed commissions in many parts of the country including London. Some cakes do not travel particularly well, so if your venue is more than around 1½ hour from Reading, it is probably best to contact me to see if it is feasible.
As with all my work, I am flexible and will do my best to accomodate all requirements.
This is a super cake to feed around 120 people. The football is also made of cake and covered in hand cut leather pieces. The scarf can be any colour or design – whatever your team. The hand piped plaque can be kept for many years.
I can offer this cake in any flavour or a mixture of flavours, if you like variety!
This is a large cake to feed up to 50+ people, but could be scaled down and still have the same effect.
This cake comes complete with a Bratz doll to keep and play for later.
Such a pretty cake for a little girl or boy, with a hand made sugar bear holding a balloon. The bear, blocks and sweet matching plaque can be kept for years as a keep sake. There are little piped bows on the board and every detail has been planned and carefully painted to offer a unique cake.
I can offer this cake in sponge, chocolate or rich fruit cake in any size, large or small, just ask.
A fun cake for a little boy’s birthday – maybe a pirate theme? Out on the ocean waves the sea can get rough, so hold on!
This cake was a chocolate cake covered in chocolate fondant icing, on a sea of royal icing (ideal for pickers!) Even the flags were edible! A stunning centre-piece for a super fun party!
This eye catching explosion cake is for a golden wedding anniversary, but would work equally well in silver or as a ruby wedding cake. Any colour can be created to match your theme.
There are chocolate painted explosion balls and hand painted butterflies, a sugar plaque to keep forever and matching trim.
This cake was made in rich dark chocolate, triple layer, filled with whipped dark chocolate butter cream and finished in a white fondant icing with lots of cake sparkles!
This cake originally arrived as a beautifully decorated, frozen, rich fruit wedding cake. It was stripped, fed with quality brandy, matured, coated with marzipan, iced and decorated for a little boy’s Christening.
The cake was lightly shaded and the individual sugar pieces cut and hand painted to offer an individual and attractive cake to form the focus of such an important event.
I am happy to remodel your wedding cake for a Christening, or naming ceremony or I can offer a generously made fruit cake, moist and rich, matured with quality brandy and iced with natural marzipan and either royal (hard) or fondant (soft) icing.
This is a smart cake for a little boy or girl. Plain and simple, but with a special feature – the little person’s special toy, a rabbit in this case, modelled and presented on a pastillage plaque, decorated with birthday ribbons to keep for many years to come. The delight when Patrick saw his ‘Fiver’ on his birthday cake was wonderful to see, really touching!
This cake was chocolate triple layer with light chocolate butter cream and covered in white fondant, finished with a hand painted plaque and cake sparkles. This cake would feed 20-25 people.
These beautiful cupcakes were made for a special 21st birthday. The colour theme of the party was brights, orange, lime green and yellow and the birthday girl loves chocolate! She wanted cupcakes but also wanted a stunning display and for the cakes to really stand out and make a feature.
There were 45 cakes in all, 22 in milk chocolate, light and moist, decorated with a generous swirl of fresh milk chocolate ganache, drizzled with white Belgian chocolate and finished with hand made blossoms in yellow, green and orange. Making up the paler side were 23 white chocolate cup cakes, light and full of flavour, topped with a swirl of white chocolate ganache, drizzled with Belgian Milk chocolate and finished with matching blossoms in yellow, green and orange. I made 2 of the cakes with super large ganache, one to show off the pretty hand piped sugar plaque and the other for the candle!
I made a special stand for the cakes with matching fondant, pillars and co ordinating ribbon and trim, all topped off with some fabulous cake sparkles. Each cake will serve 1-2 people and could be offered as a desert or with coffee.
This is such a pretty cake for a little girl’s birthday, hand painted fairies and woodland animals arrive at their house for the party, bearing balloons and a banner announcing in piped icing the birthday girl’s name, age and a special birthday message, finished with a pretty pink silky ribbon to keep.
This cake was made from vanilla sponge, double layer with jam and whipped buttercream and would feed around 20-30 people.
A stunning three tier stacked fruit cake, rich in brandy and moist luxury fruit, covered with almond paste and fondant icing. Decorated with a subtle pearl sheen to reflect the stunning fresh seasonal flowers and foliage. A gorgeous cake that would make any bride’s day so special. A cake like this would feed around 150-170 people and is available to order.
This is a beautiful Barbie Birthday cake, for a princess mad little girl. The Barbie is real, but her dress and clothes are all hand made, dusted and painted to give a look of real luxury and to lift a pretty Barbie doll to Princess Barbie! She is standing on a further cake to feed more people and let the train of her dress flow to the floor. The dress skirt and cake would feed around 30 people. If you prefer she could stand directly on the board and her skirt alone would feed around 15 people.
You could have any sponge cake flavour you wish, chocolate, vanilla or even pink!
This cake was to celebrate a little boy’s Christening, but would work equally well in pink. The handmade, painted and piped frame can hold your own message or maybe a favourite quote. This cake would feed around 50-60 people as desert or up to 80 if served with coffee. A smaller version would be possible.
This cake was a triple layer chocolate cake generously filled and coated with whipped chocolate butter cream and finished with white fondant icing. All the decorations were edible, or could be kept in a box for many years.
This is a super strawberry and white chocolate summer birthday cake. It is made with real Belgian white chocolate both in the sponge and as a cream ganache for the filling, coating and decoration. It is triple layer, each filled generously with ganache, a dash of brandy and ‘extra’ strawberry jam. Around the outside are white chocolate curls and on the top is rich, creamy, smooth ganache.
An incredibly indulgent cake for a special Summer birthday party. This cake was made for around 30-40 people as it is very rich, only a small portion is more than enough!
I made this exquisite cake for a couple who love their garden, but it would work equally well as a birthday or retirement cake. I made a vegetable garden on the left and a flowerbed on the right with garlands of glorious roses climbing on the ropes and over the seat on the lawn. All this, centered around a pond with real effect water and goldfish swimming in its clear waters.
This cake was a double layer Madagascan vanilla cake filled with ‘extra’ jam and light whipped vanilla butter cream, finished in fondant and piped with royal icing.
This is a beautiful Piglet cake. I hand modeled the Piglet for a Piglet mad little girl and she loved it. The colours could be changed to pinker or white and the balloons could be linked to a theme or a colour theme, if you like.
This cake was a light chocolate cake, triple layer, generously filled and coated with whipped chocolate butter cream and fondant icing.
This is a large anniversary cake, made with a commemorative plaque to keep. It is decorated with a wired spray of seasonal flowers and fine filigree sugar pieces, dusted in subtle gold to match the painting on the corner pieces and plaque.
This was an adult cake of triple layer dark chocolate, soaked in brandy filled and coated with dark chocolate whipped butter cream, laced with brandy. Delicious, plenty for seconds and nothing left over! This cake was offered as a desert with cream and berries and served 40 people.
This cake was made for a delighted football fan, who supported both Manchester United and Reading Royals. The cake was a chocolate cake and the football was a Madagascan vanilla sponge cake. All the decorations are edible and this cake would serve about 25-30 people.
This was a truly indulgent cake made for a special girl’s 40th Birthday. It has a hand made sugar handbag in pink gross grain silk with a pearl clasp which can be kept and preserved and hand painted clothes on piped and painted hangers around the outside. I made a plaque for the top which again can be kept.
The cake itself was a rich, dark chocolate cake, triple layer, coated and filled with dark Belgian chocolate ganache, soaked in fine Brandy and finished in white fondant icing.
This is an Autumn inspired birthday cake, but would work equally well as an Autumn wedding cake. It has many different leaves, berries and acorns, all handmade in sugar, all edible and together they make a stunning effect. Around the sides are fine filigree sugar pieces, hand painted with dust to give them a subtle sheen and topped with a sugar blackberry, round, shiny and juicy.
This cake was a dark chocolate cake, triple layer, filled with whipped chocolate butter cream, made with real chocolate and finished in white fondant icing. It has a personalised hand piped and painted plaque with the birthday girl’s name and age (optional!)
This is a beautiful birthday cake for a boy or girl. This one is made of light Madagascan vanilla sponge with luxury jam and whipped butter cream filling. I have used bright colours for the balloons, but it would work just as well with pastel colours and pink icing on the banner.
I made this one for a first birthday and put a scene in the four seasons colours around the side to show the year that the little person had enjoyed so far!
