Down the Rabbit Hole with Oak Furniture Land

To celebrate the relaunch of the Tunbridge Wells Store this Easter Oak Furniture Land commissioned a special 3ft White Rabbit Cake based on the 1865 illustrations by John Tenniel from the Lewis Carol fairytale ‘Alice in Wonderland’. This is the forth local commission from Oak Furniture Land received by Kent CakeBomber Francesca Pitcher of North Star Cakes. Francesca was delighted to take on this latest…

Trainspotting

OK rail enthusiasts, can you tell me who Big Lizzie was? No, not your plus-size Aunty Betty. More accurate to ask, what was a Big Lizzie? They were the most powerful passenger steam locomotives ever to be built for the British railway network, far more powerful than the diesel engines that replaced them. William Stanier designed the passenger steam locomotives known as ‘Coronation Class’ for the London Midland and Scottish…

Blooming Great Tea Party

To celebrate the opening of Oak Furniture Land’s new store in Croydon, CakeBomb commissioned  Jacqui Kelly of Totally Sugar based in Wimbledon to make a gravity defying teapot cake.   This fab cake, featuring a big yellow teapot made of ginger cake and incorporating the trademark Marie Curie Cancer Care Daffodil was presented to Marie Curie Cancer Care, South East on Saturday.   It was cut up and given out to Marie Curie volunteers…

Orchids in Orpington – part deux

Did you guess the species of orchid correctly? The name is Eulophia Guineensis. The winner who correctly identified the flower wins a signed copy of of Eric Lanlard’s book Chocolat. It will be announced over on our Facebook page. The jardinière  cake is Francesca’s original art work based on elements from the Orchid Society of Great Britain‘s gold award winning display at the Chelsea Flower Show…

Orchids in Orpington

What beautiful orchids! Well, you know what kind of blog this is by now. Of course we like flowers … but we’re CakeBomb! So these aren’t just flowers. They’re exquisite handcrafted orchids of a rare species. So, given that you’ve now been told they’re not real, three guesses as to what our flowers really are. China? Porcelain? Opaque glass? Nah … sugar of course! These rather special…

Cake expectations … it was delicious!

“Is it really a cake? ” That’s a phrase we heard from thousands of people visiting our Welcome to the Jungle exhibit. Yes it is cake and, what’s more, it’s really delicious cake. To celebrate the recent opening of their new Portsmouth store, Oak Furniture Land commissioned CakeBomb to create a cake to replicate the famous Martin Jennings statue of Charles Dickens in Portsmouth. The cake artist was Laura…

What the Dickens? Sweet as Sugar

To celebrate the opening of their new Portsmouth store yesterday, Oak Furniture Land commissioned CakeBomb to create a cake of Charles Dickens. Portsmouth is the birthplace of Dickens. Portsmouth’s Mayor visited the opening of the new store and there was a photoshoot with artist Laura Miller of Sweet as Sugar Cakes who is responsible for this fabulous cake. Laura really rose to the challenge to create a colour representation of the Dickens’s…

The baker, the cake, the tiger and her keeper

CakeBomb’s latest commission, from Oak Furniture Land, was to create a tiger cake they could donate to Dudley Zoological Gardens. Our woman in Birmingham, Annabel de Vetten of Conjurer’s Kitchen, was the obvious choice to make it. She meticulously made sure it was to scale and realistically textured – and it’s not just any tiger, this cake LOOKS like its inspiration, Daseep the Sumatran tigress, the star attraction of the zoo….

The Tiger Cake That Came to Tea at Dudley Zoo

Did you have tea with the tiger today at Dudley Zoo? Cake artist and CakeBomber Annabel de Vetten-Peterson made this beautiful, incredibly realistic, tiger cake for Dudley Zoo this week. It was being cut at 3:15 pm today for their event Easter Tea Time with the Tigers, at the Tecton tiger enclosure. Were you one of the visitors lucky enough to get a slice? The cake is…

Did you visit our jungle?

Don’t tell us you missed out?! CakeBomb hit the The Cake and Bake Show Manchester with a bang as its life-sized edible jungle went down a storm with the public and the media alike.With an Indian theme to add Bollywood bling and sparkle, the CakeBomb jungle was full of creatures ranging from earth worms to tigers. The jungle featured a working waterfall, smoking hookah…