Making Cakes at Home

(Her)
I love making cakes - I always have done - when I broke my arm at about the age of 13, within a week I was insisting I'd be able to make a cake with my arm in a sling - unfortunately my parents took that to mean I was also able to start helping out with the household chores again, but that was the price I paid.

In recent years I have become more enthusiastic in my cake making - now I'm not up to the standard of my friend Mandy, who creates professional cakes under the guise of Scrummy Crumbs Cakes - her cakes are phenomenal, but I think I've had some success with my own mediocre creations, so I will post a few pictures of them here. Be warned, there are a couple of explicit ones!

This is a vanilla victoria sponge with white chocolate icing and flake on top, as well as some decorated cupcakes on a stand - very simple and 'normal' for me.

Last year, however, I decided to create something a little bit special for His 29th birthday, so using a photo of his car, I tried to make a cake version:

On seeing the cake I'd make for him, my flat mate decided he needed 'boobs' for his birthday cake so 3 months later the next cake was made:

Which led to another friend deciding to make things fair she needed a penis (I apologise at this point for the crudeness of my cake and would like to add that the most disgusting bit was added by him and not me)

For the next birthday I wanted to make something that suited the person it was being made for and so I made a film themed cake for Ali:

Then a train for another friend (who was playing a train driver in an am dram production)

For Christmas I was given a "giant cupcake" mould so inevitably the next friend who had a birthday got this:

Then this week, it was our new flatmate's birthday - she requested Johnny Depp in his pirate outfit, which was a bit beyond my ability, so here's what I came up with: