Cake

Sadie Smith

Meet The Maker

I’ve been putting off doing a meet the maker post for a while as being in front the camera is not my happy place, I am much more comfortable behind the lens taking pics of the beautiful cakes I create. So here it goes, firstly a big hello to all the new visitors and clients …

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lemon drizzle cake

Lemon Drizzle Cake

This week i’m entering summer with the flavour and leaving behind the chocolate, so for those of you who love a citrus and fresh taste, then this lemon drizzle cake is the cake for you. It is the simplest of recipes using the all in one method or as I like to describe it as …

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Navy Wedding Cake

Navy Wedding Cake

Creating a Navy wedding cake with textured icing was way out of my comfort zone. You’ll see from my photos I create a lot of semi naked wedding cakes using fresh flowers or smooth iced pale coloured wedding cakes. I’ve seen dark and navy wedding cakes flying around the internet for a while and am …

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Fondant Fancie

2018 has certainly been the year to step away from tradition and stamp your own personality and loves into your wedding. I absolutely loved creating this dessert table paying homage to one of my all time childhood favourites the humble ‘Fondant Fancie’. The centre piece was a huge Fondant Fancie made up of a square …

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Baking Q & A

I recently took part in a baking questions and answers feature with BBC Radio Solent, and was inundated with questions, unfortunately during the live show there just wasn’t enough time to answer all your questions, so I’ve answered as many as I can here. Q – I never seem to have much luck with a …

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Beach Wedding Cake

Living on the beautiful South Coast of Dorset, we regularly get asked to make wedding cakes for beach front venues, our Beach Wedding Cake is perfect for any beach themed wedding, decorated with handmade sugar paste shells, sea horses, seaweed and driftwood with edible sugar sand. This cake was for a wedding held at FJB …

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Ombre Ruffle Cake

This wedding cake combined two of my favourite styles with a blue ombre effect and romantic soft ruffles. It fitted the theme of a beach wedding perfectly held with FJB Weddings at The Sandbanks Hotel on the Dorset coast, the venue was decorated with windmills, bucket & spades and beach hut table centre’s made by …

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