All The Pretty Pins: Naked Cakes

I LOVE the current trend of 'naked cakes;' they are both beautifully simple, whilst terrifying me with their neatness. You have to be a good buttercream layer filler and I am afraid that is not me, which is why you will find most of my cakes have buttercream smothered all over them! 

But it is definitely something worth neatening myself up if it means I can create such an  effortlessly elegant cake. Simply stunning.

Clockwise from top: sunflower, baby's breath, passion fruit, doves, pink roses, raspberry, summer fruits, lemon, caramel, chocolate, yellow 

Vicky xx

All The Pretty Pins: Cartoon Cakes

Following on from this weekends Catbug cake, all this week's pins are fantastic cartoon themed cakes, So bright, colourful and fun!

Clockwise from top: Garfield, Spongebob Squarepants, Care Bears, Hello Kitty, Pink Panther, Katsuma, Tokidoki, My Little Pony, Lumpy Space Princess, Powerpuff Girls, Adventure Time, Dexter's Labratory

By the way, how awesome are those 3D Hello Kitty cookies?! I need to be finding the cutters for those!

Vicky xx

*New Feature* - All The Pretty Pins

How many of you use Pintrest? I love it! So much pretty and loads of inspiration all in one place. Although you do have to be careful or you end up saying good bye to a huge chunk of your day. I tend to keep away if I know I have stuff to do! Or try anyway...

My one problem with it is that there is so much stuff on there, it's so easy to forget about the things that have caught your eye, even if you have pinned them to a board or liked them.

So I wanted to start a new (weekly?) feature on collections of things I've found and loved on there, just so I can remind myself of what I've seen and share them with the world!

First up, with it supposedly being Spring and all, I have chosen a collection of pretty pastel images. Pastel colours are charming and delicate, and I love that you can use 4 or 5 different pastel colours together and still come out with something that works.

Clockwise from top: chalk, cake, hair, bottles, macarons, flowers, cookies, cakes with stands, necklace, dress

Beautiful :)

Vicky xx