SPOTLIGHT ON – TRACEY ROTHWELL

Over the weeks we’re going to feature some of our team in a little more depth. First off is a well-known face to many, who is as much at home doing pretty and stylish as she is geeky and grotesque … but we suspect we know which one she prefers 😉 … Tracey Rothwell from Little Cherry Cake Company. Tracey, tell us a bit about…

Thank You, Manchester – The Movie

Would you like to see what a great time we had in Manchester? This video beautifully sums up our experience of  The Cake & Bake Show – the laughter, the tears, the sore feet, the green airbrushed fingers, the chocolate ganache and fondant everywhere, and the amazing crowds. This will give you an idea of what the atmosphere was like at the show. It just never…

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…

So how do you make an edible jungle?

HOW? Take 16 talented cake-artists, 6 months and an exciting and colourful theme. Mix them all together to produce one breath-taking edible installation for The Cake and Bake Show, Manchester 2014. The CakeBomb management team brought together some of the cake industry’s leading sugarcraft talents and conceived, controlled and co-ordinated this ambitious project entirely via the internet. The team were located throughout the United Kingdom, as well…

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…