This week was the start of The Vanilla Pod Bakery's 2011 wedding season, and commenced with a traditional single tier wedding cake.

Over the weekend we had two cupcake towers to set up, the first at lovely Bowden Hall in Upton-Saint-Leonards and the second at the magnificent Clearwell Castle in the Forest of Dean.





If you would like to commission the Vanilla Pod Bakery to create your dream wedding cake, please do not hesitate to get in contact with Pia on 07828 66 89 32 or enquiry@vanillapodbakery.com.

The other day Vanilla Pod was commissed to make a bespoke cake in the shape of a heart with two different flags joining each other in the middle - a union of two cultures/countries. As I love a challenge I relished the opportunity and couldn't wait to start baking and creating.

I baked a lemon heart shaped sponge and covered it with red sugarpaste and then got to work on the flags. At first I thought about painting the flags into the cake. However I love to fashion objects out of sugarpaste, so decided to go ahead with that method. I created a Zimbabwean flag and an Australian flag then placed them onto the heart. I have to say I was pleased with the results and the client was over the moon.