That leads me to an exciting announcement. In case you hadn't seen it yet I bought myself a domain name YAY! I am now lydiabakes.com. It's so simple and easy to remember. No more dot blogspot dot com! Yaaaay! It also marks a new beginning for me as I'm going to be blogging less about cakes and more about general baking and kitchen tips. My friend and wonderful graphic designer, Danelle, is working on a grand blog redesign with me and I cannot wait to share it with you all!
So here it is, my (sort of) final cake. It's a rugby field cake made for my work mates son. Vanessa says that he is a big Blues supporter but upon picking it up she told me they're not playing so well (I wouldn't know I don't follow rugby really!) but her son supports them no matter what. A true fan!
The joys (and sometimes frustrations) of getting older is that you have a smorgasboard of choices and interests, and different things need to be prioritised or let go of from time to time. Never easy decisions to make, in my experience, but well done for having the guts to do the right thing for you (and Simon of course!)
ReplyDeleteI'm still making cakes! Haha! Just not as many. Mainly because people keep asking for wedding and birthday cakes later on in the year when I will most probably be studying and it's hard to keep up!
ReplyDeleteLydia you cakes look AMAZING!!! I really wish you lived here in the US or I lived near you guys just so I can be in your kitchen and watch you!!! I hope you and Simon are doing well and just wanted to say I really enjoy your blogs and I look forward to new posts every day! Maybe one day when you bake we can Skype :). Hope all is well!!
ReplyDeleteMary
This looks awesome. Need to do something similar at the weekend. Can you tell me how you constructed the posts? Any tips on that wonderful grass styled icing?? Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThank you Emma!
DeleteI made the posts with bamboo skewers (the ones you buy at the supermarket) and just glued them together the day before.
The grass is just buttercream tinted green and then piped with a grass tip (Wilton tip #233). If you can't pipe the icing you can always dye some coconut green (just put coconut in a zip lock bag with some liquid food colouring and shake it) and use that on top of plain green icing.
Hope this helps! I'd love to see the cake when it's done!