Panda Pops

Frostylocks is back! This time with some beautiful wedding favours. The wedding had a slight animal theme, with the tables being named 'Whale', 'Penguin', 'Hippo' etc, but the bride and groom have a soft spot for pandas.

Each one of these 80 (yes, 80!) little pandas was loving hand crafted from scratch and individually bagged, ready for the beautiful wedding at Eaves Hall in Lancashire.

They all started life as simple balls of gooey cake, mixed with creamy frosting.

Next came hours of painstaking decorating and piping. 

Happy pandas, all in a line!

Looking good and ready to go!

Candy Stripes

Pink and blue candy stripes are one of my favourite colour combos. I think they 'pop' so nicely and this cake looks straight out of a cartoon. What do you think?

With simple rolled roses to finish it off. Perfect for a (slightly civilised) mad tea party.

Woodland Wedding

A friend of mine from work got married a while ago, and asked me to do her cake. They were having an intimate family day, inspired by crafts, adventure and their love of the great outdoors. 

I really enjoyed working on this cake, as it was so simple and elegant. Congratulations to the happy couple!

The bride had made her own topper, and I think it just finished it off nicely. 

Carrot Patch

Some beautiful little carrot cakes for you today. Topped with vanilla icing, instead of the usual cream cheese frosting used with carrot cakes, as a bit of a change.

Each one topped with a hand-made carrot and a lavish sprinkling of glitter.

Veggies too cute to eat.

Cake Pops and sprinkles

Cake pops have been popular for a while now. Bite-size bits of squidgy cake wrapped up in chocolate. What's not to love? They are great for those of you that have a sweet tooth but don't want a huge piece of cake to tide you over til tea-time. 

I decided to try some of my own and turns out they are fun, if not a little infuriating to make. (Yes, they did fall off the sticks a few times!)

Let me know what you think. Do you want to see more cake pops?

Beautiful butterflies

A few months ago I had the pleasure of making a wedding cake for one of my all-time favourite people. She was having a sci-fi-geek-butterfly theme. We went for simple and elegant for the main cake. Flavours included simple sponge with jam, lemon drizzle and toffee cake.

(I do apologise for the backgrounds in these photos - I didn't get chance to give them a proper photo shoot before they made their way down to London, but better photos are on their way.)

She also wanted a surprise grooms cake for her new hubby, so we incorporated Star Wars and Lego. Chocolate and toffee cakes layered together with toffee sauce. Yum. 

St. Catherine's Cakes

I'm about 2 years late posting this, but better late than never! I made these cupcakes for the St. Catherine's 'yellow fate' a few years back, with all proceeds going to the hospice. 

I think I made these the night of Eurovision, so the kitchen was full of the smells of fresh cake, and the sounds of terrible European pop. Good times.

Please 'like' St. Catherine's hospice on Facebook, and donate what you can. They are an amazing organisation who get a lot of their funding from public donations, and they help so many wonderful people. 

Hello again, it's been a while

Hello again, cake fans. I've been on somewhat of a hiatus for the past few years, but I am coming back slowly.

As anyone that knows me will tell you, I've been through some pretty sad times. My wonderful Mum, and kitchen helper, very sadly passed away 2 years ago. She had a nasty battle with breast cancer and eventually lost. She put up a bloody good fight though, and I miss her every day.

She was with me for every cake, was always giving me good ideas, solving problems and helping me with deliveries. She was my cake-rock.

So for 2 years I haven't been baking much. I've been getting on with my life.

 It's hard when you lose your partner in crime.

With the help of my amazing family and friends, I have been slowly building back up my cake-confidence. I've even moved into wedding cakes! So without further a do, welcome back to Frostylocks 2.0. I've changed some things around, please have a look around and leave some comments. 

Thank you for all your continued support,

Frostylocks xxx

Lovely Birthday Cupcakes

Very simple post today. Some lovely birthday cupcakes made for a friend. Colour-coded, strawberry pink, mint green, lemon yellow.

I think mint green makes a great looking cupcake!

Another birthday explosion

So it's the big 30. Everyone needs an explosion of stars on their thirtieth, right? 

Cakes and explosions go so well together...

Oh, yeah, there was an explosion at the nearby glitter factory.

Kitty cake

My fella's sister turned 18 recently, and loves anything to do with cats, so a cat cake was the only way to go... Meow!

Cute Christening

I was asked to do a christening cake with a lovely girly theme. So of course only pink and lemon would be fitting!

Some details for you

Nom-Skull

A good friend of mine is barmy about brains (she may be a zombie, I'm not sure) so for her 21st birthday I made a brain cake, obviously! Bottom cake is plain madeira. Brain cake is rose flavoured. And pink inside!

And obviously every birthday brain needs a party hat.

Birthday Zerg rush

I was commissioned to make a 21st birthday cake for a friend, and was left to my own devices. So I decided to theme it on a game he plays A LOT. Starcraft.

The thing on top is a spawning pool (one of these)

And here's the cake

So long and good luck!

A friend of mine is leaving for America soon, and what better way to say 'good bye and good luck' than with cake!

And these lovelies were full to the brim with strawberry jelly! (That's strawberry jam to us brits)

Boxes of Golden Lovelyness

I got a rather large order from a lovely couple, wanting 40 golden chocolate cupcakes. With the boxes, I think they look nice and elegant.

Bit of a Wonky 21st

Here is another wonky cake I made for non other than my lovely George on his 21st. Very sorry for the poor photo quality, these were taken as we were singing Happy Birthday at the restaurant!

With candles...

And without

iCake

So what do you get the man who has everything? I am, of course, referring to my Dad. He is very difficult to buy for, so this year for his birthday, my Mum and I decided to surprise him with a few i-gifts.

He received a lovely, shiny iPad, and (much better I think) a lovely, tasty iCake!

And of course, he had to have some personalised apps too

And here it is, next to the real thing

Happy wonky birthday

After what seems like a life time of no posts here at Frostylocks, and a lovely new years celebration in Egypt, I am back for more cakey creations.

This cake was the first wonky design I have tried. They are very fiddly to do, and carving them is hand-shakingly difficult. But here it is!

Sorry about the picture quality! I made this cake as a present for my Grandma, and she was very pleased with it :)

Birthday Bee

I was asked to make a Bumble bee cake this week. Looks easy, but turned out to bee (see what I did there?) more complicated than I thought! Love the finished cake though. Very cute.

And what about a ladybird, for some extra added colour?

Detailed, right down to the deely-boppers!