Hello and welcome to my website, my name is Catherine and I love decorating cakes. I have been attending sugarpaste classes for about two years now and have learnt lots, however there is still much more to learn. I am a member of the local branch of the British Sugarcraft guild and regularly attend the demonstrations that they put on. This website has a number of photo’s of the cakes I have made and decorated, some are from my first 12 months of cake decorating and others are more recent. I hope you can see a progression in my skill level. I currently attend two vocational courses in my local area one at the local sixth form college and one at my local library both of which are taught by Tracey Routledge. Earlier this year I also attained a distinction for the ABC level one certificate in Cake Decorating which included royal icing as well as sugarpaste.
Hi Catherine,
Your cakes are fabulous!
I especially love the shark cake. I’d love to know, did you use a 3D cake tin for this or did you carve it by hand?
Thanks for the inspiration,
Annie
Hi Annie, No I didn’t use a 3d cake tin, this is the first carved cake I ever did. Thanks for your comments.
Catherine
Your first carved cake? This is really impressive!
I’ve just been asked to do a fish cake for a friend of mine, what type of sponge would you recommend I use?
Annie
I used a madeira sponge, and I froze the cake for about 12 hours before I carved it, this makes it easier to carve as it’s less crumbly. I hope this helps. Catherine
Hi Catherine
I was looking at your Wizard of Oz cake on Flickr, and was wondering what you used for the glitter on the ruby slippers. Really awesome cake by the way =)
Thanks,
John
I used edible glitter made by rainbow dust, the colour was jewel fire red. I basically used modelling paste to make the shoes left them to dry out, painted them all over with glue made from tylo and then I shook, pressed, and painted the glitter on to them. It took a while but I was pretty happy with the end result. But it gets everywhere!!!
Thanks for the positive comment on my work.