This is a box of cakes I made for a bake sale at the Indigo cafe in Cambridge. It is the teeniest cafe in the world (well, the teeniest one I've ever been into) with lovely food and coffees and very sweet, friendly staff. We took them to the cafe at about 4pm and I went with my 9 year old daughter, her friend who's 7 and the daughter of one of my partner's friends who is 5. I haven't been into town with 3 smalls for a long time and doing it in the dark on a Saturday was an experience :)) So we handed them over proudly and went on a brief walk through town, which was insanely busy, and made our escape back home to the warm.

Here are some cakes I made for a student the other day - she had seen a cake I'd done with the 'Love' sign on and luckily I had a few left! I can't remember what website I got it from so I'll have to search for it in time for Valentine's day (I know it's a way off but with cupcake sprinkles or decorations it pays to be prepared...)

Two pictures of a recent cake order for a lovely pregnant lady for her child's birthday. She ordered 25 cakes - enough for all the children in the class at nursery - and, I have to say I was pretty pleased with the way they look! The first one is a bit blurry which is because I took these photos at around 6am after making and decorating them and I really can't focus at that time in the morning.

I always wake up at around 5am on 'market stall morning' and it takes me at least an hour to get into gear - I draw a plan of how I'm going to decorate the cakes the night before as I know I won't be able to think in the morning - and I can't even drink a cup of tea for about the first half an hour. (this is momentous, or momentus can't spell, news as tea is usually the very first thing I think about when I wake up).

The dad was sent to pick up the cakes and there is always something very endearing about men carrying cupcakes. They do it in a manner which aims to suggest that they are still all man and could knock down a tree or wrestle a bear with their teeth should the need arise, they just happen to be carrying cupcakes..

Here is a gorgeous chocolate cake for a lucky Grandpa! I had to look at the text ordering the cake to check if 'grandpa' had a 'd' and indeed it does. This is the fourth cake that I have made for this particular family (which I hope is a good sign..). The mum of the family was my first customer at 8.30am on my first day on the market whilst I was still unloading all the cakes! She was walking through town with her two daughters and happened upon the daisycakes experience and the rest is history. They always request the same cake, which is Nigella's chocolate cake, with chocolate icing and I hope I get to carry on working my way through the family through the relatives :)

Well, I still can't work out how to transfer photos from my phone to the laptop which means, frustratingly, having to wait until a willing (and they usually aren't) teenager or my partner are around to do it for me. I have to learn. But luckily I have a few photos that were downloaded earlier.

Yesterday on the stall was great although it is now freezing and the challenge is wearing enough clothes but still being able to move. Another way is to eat a lot and drink endless cups of tea. I had the world's biggest baked potato yesterday with at least a pound of cheese and a whole tin of baked beans from a neighbouring stall. It was delicious! The cupcakes sold really well, especially the ones with Hello Kitty marshmallows on. They are soo popular the main problem is finding the Hello Kitty stuff in the first place. Chinatown in Soho is a good place to start.

Well, that's all for this one. Once I get the photos from this week done for me (the shame) I'll post them here :))

It's an 'It's Tuesday' cupcake! I've spent all today making cakes for the stall tomorrow including my first attempt at a triple layer red velvet layer cake. It looks fantastic and I am soo pleased with it but I can't seem to take a good photo with my phone (which is what I usually use) so I'm going to wait for Daisy (my 15 year old daughter) to take some for me with her flash new phone. I have also made 2 lemon and polenta - they aren't at all photogenic but taste delicious - a large and a small carrot cake, 2 lemon drizzle cakes as well as chocolate cupcakes.

I was just about to make beetroot brownies, using the beetroot we get from the organic veg stall on the market on Sundays when I remembered I hadn't cooked the beetroot aaarghh!! It takes ages to boil them before you can grate them and add to the melted choc and butter, so they are now bubbling away like something in a witch's cauldron with their horrible ratty tails...

I will get photos of the red velvet cake and up/download them whichever one of those is the appropriate term :))

The one of the large cake didn't work so here are some I made earlier :) This is halloween green icing used for good..

Here are a few of the halloween cakes! The one at the bottom was supposed to be a ghost but looks more like a tadpole or a tadpoltegeist as someone suggested :))

I also did a huge square cake for twin 10 year old girls which looks cool - I hope it tasted nice too. The thing with cupcakes is that you can taste one of the batch to check it's ok but with a larger cake you just have to hope for the best.

Talking of larger cakes, tomorrow I'm making a huge triple layer red velvet cake (from the Hummingbird bakery cookbook) which I cannot wait to do! We went to the bakery in South Kensington and bought one of their cupcakes to share. It was gorgeous with a huge chocolatey swirl on top. We sat on Hyde park to eat it between 3 of us! So here is a picture of Sofia and Claudia's cake and a half eaten Hummingbird bakery extravaganza..

I've been doing a Saturday stall for the last few weeks but I think I'm going to stick to just doing a Wednesday at the moment. Saturday doesn't seem to be cake day, people are too busy shopping in Topshop or Boots which, of course, is fair enough but doesn't help me in my quest to save up for a Merc - I have around 73 pence so far. This week I did a few halloween cakes which were great fun to decorate - I used jelly teeth and then drew in the faces around them or wrote my favourite 'i'm scared' words such as 'gulp' or 'eek'.

Here are a few pictures of cakes from this week's stall. I did a large carrot cake for a little girl's first birthday and they wanted a gothic, purpley colour scheme so that's what I did. It's the wrong way up but is supposed to be a tree with flowers in night time colours around it!