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…

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…

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….

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…