A spaceship cake! And you can't see but on the other side is a tiny little green alien spaceship, very pleasing :))

Cakes from the stall this week - it was the first day of properly cold weather today which we feel on 'windy corner'! So we all drank even more tea than usual (and we usually get through hundreds of cups as it is..) and said we'd start a campaign to get a mulled wine stall for the winter months to stave off the cold - not sure if they'll let us but it's worth a try :) The cakes this week were strawberry, Oreo, chocolate and apple. The apple ones had a honey and cinammon buttercream and were really autumny :)

Lots of cakes from this weekend - cupcakes for the deli at Burwash Manor Farm, the regular ones and some for Apple Day with very cute homemade apples on top! The top 2 boxes are redcurrant and strawberry; pear and chocolate and vanilla custard flavour and the ones with apples on are apple and custard :)

Cakes from this week. The top three are some of the cupcakes I took to the market this week - the chocolate ones have homemade truffles on top - they were soo good! - and the pink one is raspberry and white chocolate with pink Italian meringue buttercream and melted white chocolate, very good :)

The bottom cake is a small coconut and peach sponge which says Happy Birthday love in a mixture of Italian (as the husband whose birthday it was is Italian) and Croatian. I think it looks really cool and they said it was delicious which I'm always so pleased to hear..

3 sets of birthday cakes - one for the first customers I ever had on my stall on the first day I was there! I'm so pleased they're still ordering cakes from me :) The blue cakes were for a little boy's first birthday (on the same day as my eldest son's 22nd birthday! I felt slightly old..) and the bottom cakes are part of my weekly delivery to The Larder deli at Burwash Manor farm. They all have the Italian meringue buttercream which I perfected this week and am now showing off at every opportunity...

I've just made Italian meringue buttercream!! You have to heat a sugar syrup to a certain temperature whilst brushing down the sides of the pan whilst at the same time whisking egg whites to soft peaks and then beat the syrup into the meringue for 10 minutes eek. I used my Kitchen Aid and, even though it is a beast of a machine, I could hear it wanting to give up towards the end.. But the end result is silky, vanillary, meringuey gorgeousness :)

I'm going to use the Italian meringue for some of the cupcakes tomorrow but I'm also going to make Lime and Coconut cupcakes with a mascarpone and lime frosting - sounds good!

Cakes from this week - I am soo proud of the hen party ones especially the hand drawn tiaras! I was so pleased with the way they came out - the only difficult bit then is tying the ribbon around the box (which of course involves carefully sliding the ribbon under the box eek) without dropping the whole lot.. Luckily my daughter Daisy was at home and helped me :))

The other cakes are the ones I took to The Larder this morning - the hearts on the chocolate sprinkle covered Oreo cakes are hand made. You pipe hearts or whatever shape takes your fancy onto greaseproof paper and then put them in the freezer for 15 minutes. I think they look really cute :)