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…

Hat-Trick for Burns Night

  CakeBomb was delighted to celebrate with cake the three new store locations for Oak Furniture Land in the days leading up to Burns Night this January. Oak Furniture Land commissioned three of our artists to create Burns themed cakes for their new store openings in Hereford, Paisley and Stirling. Veteran CakeBomber Annabel de Vetten-Petersen took on the Hereford store opening with a life-sized boxed set of bagpipes. The cake was later…

Pineapple Punch – Oak Furniture Land brings Hawaii to Broadstairs

  Earlier this month Cakebomber Francesca Pitcher of North Star Cakes brought the tropical sun of Hawaii to Oak Furnitureland Broadstairs. Francesca constructed an oversized pineapple punch cocktail cake which any holiday maker would be thrilled to receive on a sunny beach! The  20 inch tall cake was made in three (very long) days  and consisted of 4 large stacked vanilla cakes carved and split…

Maidstone store opens with a Spring (Lamb) in it’s step

Ahh, Spring is well and truly here, and to celebrate their latest store opening  Oak Furniture Land  commissioned CakeBomb to make a life-sized baby lamb cake for their Maidstone store over the Easter Holiday’s. ‘Baa Larkin’ our Spring lamb cake was made by Award Winning CakeBomber Francesca Pitcher from North Star Cakes  who is local to the new store in Aylesford, Maidstone. Local attraction, The Museum of Kent…

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…