Would anyone enjoy a cake picture thread, for boasting?!

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I've made a couple recently that I want to show off to people... We could all go 'ooooh' at each other's efforts!

And a couple more!

A surprise US Independence day cake for some American expat friends of mine.

The hidden flag is fantastic!

Moose - damn. That's the justification. I could have done football cakes for the village fete where it is now apparently assumed that I will run the cake stall again..

Oh well. Too late. I will have to think of something else for cake stall (did cake pops year before last, ice cream cone cakes last year).

Ooooh! These are amazing!!! ...I have NC'd as these will out me to anyone who knows me.

I made these for a friend's surprise babyshower. They're my own invention imitating a fondant fancy, so baby's body is lemon buttercream on a vanilla sponge and the blanket etc are fondant!

Coincidentally, a year and 2 weeks later, this is the bump's first birthday cake. I NEVER offer to make cakes for people because it's a massive responsibility and I'm a massive fool but I was asked and I think got lucky!

I had never heard of the book "Barry the fish with fingers" before making the cake but here he is, in all his fondant glory!!!

These will probably out me - may need to NC after this. Just a selection I've made for friends and family...

It's Doc McStuffins this year - so I need to start on the Sugarpaste Characters - it took many evenings to get the colours and characters right for DD's Peppa Pig cake!

Here's one I made earlier (A lot earlier. About 20y ago! )

It was for a bus-fanatic's birthday. A double-decker gingerbread bus, with sugar windows, and both levels were stuffed with sweets.

And these are just out of the oven.

Hammentaschen: little poppy seed pies in rose-water and almond pastry.

And now I'm MNing instead of doing the dishes. Work avoidance? Moi?

If any of you want to list your cake decorating businesses on #MumsnetSuffolk or Norfolk please do under childrens or adults parties and there is also a wedding section too-

Norfolk here

and

Suffolk here.

Flower cake... Coke for scale!

In the night garden

Someone else put one of these ones up. Fat fairy and toadstool!

The classic dinosaur cake

Swashbuckle, ben &holly (nightmare!),& bow cake my favourites that I've made for friends and family. Love it and now totally outed, but was inspired by rest of thread. Besides about time to change my name!

Name change alert too cos it would out me...but made this for my cow mad DDs birthday...

So, no lemon drizzle cake

This was hard cake to make

This is one we made for cake decorating class.

Made this yesterday, fun to make, but everything is tiny.

Which decorating class do you go to Nanny?

Hi Mike, its a community college in Blackwood, on mon night, all free, just went really to learn how to wire flowers, and stayed.

Mike - remember I pm'd you about the Lakeland hemisphere cake tins a few weeks ago? The results are in my post of 16.37 on Sunday (above). They were a great success!

Whoknows, I bought those tins too, all of the sizes, its how I made my bird cage.

I wouldn't want to use them too often, they were quite fiddly (I've made notes for next time) and took ages. But a very good effect. I only really do fancy cakes for the DCs birthdays, so it's likely they won't get used again for a year now.

I have the large hemispheres and this full of chocolate cake cooling in the kitchen now and two very indignant cats shut out in the utility room for the night - cakes hopefully to be transformed into a cricket ball and a grassy base tomorrow night.