Cakes!

So these are just a few cakes i've made mainly for special occasions or just because I fancied something indulgent.

 This was my sons christening cake. it was just a simple sponge recipe filled with buttercream and homemade raspberry jam and covered in royal icing and the bear on top was made from marzipan.

 This is inspired by the cake make on baking made easy by Lorraine Pascale. I didnt follow her recipe as she used chocolate chocolate and more chocolate so i used a chocolate sponge with a vanilla buttercream and used matchsticks around the edge topped with raspberries and strawberries.

 While filling the cases with the cake batter you add a spoon of jam in the middle and place more batter on top. The jammy suprise when you bite into them was amazing. they are topped in a merangue style icing.

 This looks pretty indulgent and actually its made without any fat its been substituted with courgette. Usually the thought of courgette makes me feel slightly sick i can't stand them (or maybe my dads just never been very good at cooking them) but they just melted away into this chocolate fedge cake.

This was the chistmas cake I made in 2010. My sons first christmas and our first family christmas in our house. My husband helped with the penguins. It was a rich fruit cake recipe from the essential guide to cake decorating. bought for me by my sister the previous christmas.

This is a carrot cake topped with a cream cheese frosting made as a taster for my godsons christening cake.

 the finished product. My friend choose a mascapone frosting for the carrot cakes. unfortunatly in transit the cake was knocked about a bit and some of the topping is a bit thin! this carrot cake contained several bananas it was very tasty.

 This was my sons 2nd birthday cake another sponge filled with buttercream and jam. Thomas is emerging from the tunnel (he knew it was thomas so thats all that matters!!) he managed to be ill on his birthday so didn't get any of it we made chocolate cupcakes wonce he was better that were just as good!

 This was my sons 1st birthday cake, a vanilla sponge with homemade raspberry jame and buttercream filling. its farm themed with choclate buttercream 'ploughed fields' chocolate button 'cow pats' and a chocolate finger fence.