Rachel's Emporium of Cake

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Lindsay's Description:

At Rachel's Emporium of Cake you will find a wonderful range of cakes from what I would describe as classical styles to fun novelty cakes.  Rachel's cakes are accompanied by a simple write-up about her cake designs, covering her experiences and inspirations.  With lots of photos and close up shots of each cake make Rachel's Emporium of Cake a fun blog to visit.

Rachel's Description:

My name is Rachel, and this is a blog to post about all the tasty cakes that I've been making...


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Recent Updates at Rachel's Emporium of Cake

Roxanne and Rolands Wedding Cake.

28 June 2009

A wedding cake for a cousin of a friend this time, Roxanne wanted three tiers and for it to go with her colour scheme of ivory, green and blue. I suggested blue roses with green leaves on an ivory cake and thats what I went for. However when it came to the roses the colour seemed pretty lost on the ...

Mark and Kates Wedding Cake.

27 June 2009

My cousin Mark and his partner Kate asked me to do their wedding cake, they wanted a really beautifil and simple cake, one fruit tier and one chocolate with swirled and stippled icing. I got to use my shiny new cake stands and Kate put some beautiful flowers on to decorate it. I was so pleased to ...

Fiona's 21st Cake

16 June 2009

Ok, I'm going to preface this by saying the only clay model's that I've made in the past have been a) of teddy bears, where realness isn't all that needed and b) done with slightly more time to finish them. This however was a last min cake for my best friend Emma's sister, they were having a toga ...

Janice's 80th Birthday Cake

16 June 2009

This cake was for the 80th birthday of a friend's mum, she wanted a victoria sponge. It's decorated with white sugarpaste, cut out pink sugarpaste letters and piped sugarpaste detail. With a few pink balls for prettiness. The cake was the lady's first ever birthday cake and she was really overjoyed ...

Evalyne's First Birthday Cake - Teddy Bears Picnic

28 April 2009

For my beautiful baby god-daughters first birthday I made a teddy bears picnic cake. Chocolate cake, iced with buttercream and decorated with fondant. Rachel

Whole Orange Cake

21 April 2009

I had an over abundance of oranges this week, so went hunting for a recipe to use them up. This is what the wonderful google machine found for me: 2 Large Oranges 250g (9oz) Ground Almonds 25g (9oz) Caster Sugar 6 Large Eggs 1tsp Baking Powder Pre-heat over to Gas Mark 5, and grease a 20cm cake ...

Bob's 50th Birthday Cake

12 April 2009

50th Birthday cake for Bob, made with plain sponge, jam and buttercream. Decorated with hand coloured fondant, and piped royal icing letters. I had a few issues with the royal icing, but I think I am finally getting the hang of it, I definitely need to start trusting my instincts on when its at the ...

Sarah's 18th Birthday Cake

27 March 2009

Sarah asked me to make her an 18th cake in the shape on the numbers 1 and 8, decorated with pink hearts and blue stars. Had a few problems with this one, as the cake tins I hired didn't really match up, so they look a little odd on the cake board, and the fondant did not want to be nice and ...

Spring Cake

20 March 2009

I made this cake recently by request of some friends, and it was quickly demolished by a houseful of ravenous students. This spring cake features ducks, flowers and carrots all made from fondant. The cake was a ginger cake with strawberry frosting, and turned out very tasty. Some side decoration. A ...

Lewis' 3rd Birthday Cake - Lightning McQueen

11 March 2009

For my cousin Lewis' 3rd birthday I wanted to go all out (despite the fact that I'd made 4 cakes in 3 days) and try some cake sculpture. As he had demanded a racing car, I went for a Lightning McQueen design - to match the ace motorised Lightning car he got for his birthday. Made from chocolate ...