Category Archives: Food made to look like other stuff other than food.

A birthday card, a leaving card

My daughter. A birthday card. In acrylic and pencil on card. A trampoline themed cake. S,C&L’s leaving card. Good friends and neighbours. S drawn from life. C inspired by medieval Saints holding her house, No.15. Sketches from life. C on the … Continue reading

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Eddy Tennis Party: invite & cake

Using my old Avant Garde Gothic scan for the type in the tennis ball. The photo session was fun. The cake was a Victoria sponge with strawberry racket, strung with chocolate and with a marscapone, yogurt and raspberry background. The party was … Continue reading

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Captain Ahab. The Fish pie.

After eating this for three days straight I felt sunk as well.

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Moby Dick the fishy pie.

OK. I forgot Captain Ahab had only one leg. Very tasty. No whales were harmed etc. Prawns and some fish. No Whales. Home made pastry of course. Leek waves and leek eye.

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Daughters birthday card PLUS Mario and Hot wheels cakes

Made with a 6B Venus pencil. I’m not a stationary fetichist apart from these pencils. My mum used to use them in her job as a draughtswoman and got me hooked on the green crackled glaze. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Pencils Here’s Mario. Strawberry … Continue reading

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Pirate Ship Cake no.4

  Three different photos of the cake floated on the sea. Sponge and chocolate on a meringue sea.

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Octopus pie

Fish pie, shaped like an octopus; vegetable tart, roasted pumkin, red cabbage and curly kale plus very strong red wine. PLUS flapjack rhubarb crumble for afters. So that’s flapjack base, rhubarb ginger and vanilla filling and a crumble topping. Served … Continue reading

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Gingerbread house / Sponge horse.

My daughter’s birthday involved two cakes this year. A rather large gingerbread house which I had a hand in constructing. IM made the huge slabs of gingerbread with her mum and decorated the mansion all by hereself. See the ‘smoke … Continue reading

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Wookie Cake 2. Alex 6.

Alex had the brilliant idea of making the candles light sabres. Under the butter and chocolate icing there was 3 victoria sponges. The lips are dried mango, the teeth Milky Bar, the nose chocolate and the eyes were raisins. Climbing … Continue reading

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UGLY fish pie

It has spinach in it’s teeth. Don’t worry I won’t be posting them all the time. My family would be fished out.

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Crabby Fish Pie

Fish pie made to look like a ugly crab. Continue reading

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Fish Pie.

Shortcrust scales, carrot eyes, on a green sea of creamy, cheesey, eggy, spinach. Fish and prawns in sauce inside.

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A Very Pammy Birthday card

You know a night out is going to end well when the words ‘Experimental cocktails’ are used. KG & CT made the Let It Bleed cake for Pam. Nobody ate the record. I think. A fantastic cake / meal / … Continue reading

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Swiss mountains in cake

My daughter had a climbing party (see the former post for the invite). It was decided to carry the theme through to the cake. Izzy and I made her birthday cake out of lots and lots of Morrisons Victoria sponges … Continue reading

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Jubilee cakes.

A nice orange juice flavoured sponge with some Crème fraiche, fruit, some lemon meringue and crushed shop bought meringue. A quick look at a £5 note and… I had a square of sponge left over so…  

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Wookiecake!

That was the invite. And that was the cake. Ingredients: 3 Carrot cakes from Morrisons (£2.95) – I would have made my own but… Raspberries in between the cakes Chocolate whipped cream Grated / sliced milk and dark chocolate Dark … Continue reading

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Pumpkin cake

My daughter wanted a pumpkin cake, I wanted to do a white chocolate skull with jelly brains – another time. Ingredients: Cream and large white choc buttons for the inside and seeds Home made orange dyed sponge for the flesh … Continue reading

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Darth Vader: the cake.

4 hours to make. There’s still some ‘brains’ in the fridge.    

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Castle Cake in 4 states

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Avast! Ahoy! More Pirateshipcake!

A great reason to have kids.

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