Mr Bump

I've been wanting to make a this cake for a while so when a slightly accident prone friend, with a thing for Mr Bump celebrated his birthday I jumped at the chance to give it a go!

At its heart this is a simple 6" sponge cake but the difficult part was making the limbs which were carved out of another cake. The trick was to chill the cake down to make it more solid before carving. I then added a layer of butter cream and chilled again.

When the limbs were properly solid then covering the limbs with marzipan and sugarpaste was quite straightforward.

Just to prove there really was cake inside!

The bandages were made from sugarpaste with added CMC to allow the paste to be rolled really thin for this nice layered effect. 

I'm quite proud of this cake. It was quite tasty too - even if I do say so myself!

The music man

Can you keep a secret? Sssshh. Come closer and I'll tell you; the Wee Greenwich Bakery isn't in Greenwich anymore! 

Much as we loved our wee Greenwich flat we had outgrown it and longed for outside space and more room to keep all our cookbooks and cake tins. Mr. M wanted a piano and a vegetable garden and I wanted a rabbit so we moved out of London and into a little house last year.

Well this week Mr. M finally got his piano. It was partially a birthday present and partially paid for with some kind wedding present money that we'd set aside for something really special.

To celebrate the occasion I also baked him a piano themed birthday cake. It was all a bit of a rush - I had about three hours after getting home from work to bake and ice the cake from scratch for Stuart to take to work the next day. This certainly isn't my best decoration ever but not bad for an evening's work! The cake was much appreciated and was apparently very delicious :)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day from the Wee Greenwich Bakery! These Blueberry Muffins from the Bouchon Bakery book made an excellent dessert served hot with some vanilla ice cream. 

The recipe recommends the batter is made the night before and it does seem that it made them extra-moist. The blueberries were frozen and coated in flour before being mixed into the batter which successfully kept them whole and suspended nicely throughout the cake. Om nom nom! 

Happy Valentine's Day one and all! xxx