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…

Cake Masters Magazine Awards 2014

  From 20,000 votes we’ve made it to finalist in the Collaboration category of Cake Master Magazine Awards for our “Welcome to the Jungle” live installation at the Cake & Bake Show Manchester this year – created by all these people in this list here. Thank you to everyone who nominated us! There were some fabulous collaborations this year (and last year) and we’re delighted to be in such…

JOHN CLARE CELEBRATIONS IN PETERBOROUGH

Poet John Clare was born in Helpston near Peterborough. He’s sometimes known as the peasant poet, because he was a farm labourer with only a few years of formal education. This year, Peterborough is commemorating the 150 years since the poet’s death (1793-1864). Study of his work was neglected for many years but he is now considered one of the most important 19th century…

Interview with – Masters and Munn

For Welcome to the Jungle we were very privileged to have the input of award-winning sculptors Masters and Munn – that’s André Masters and CJ Munn. They loaned us some casts of elephant skin and gharial skin and our showstopping elephants poos were thanks to them too. André’s background is in modelmaking for film and television including sets, armour, props and animatronics. André works in all kinds of media and takes commissions for, amongst other things, interior…

BOOM! Prepare for a Cake Attack…

We at CakeBomb HQ love baking, but we love cake art, sugar innovation and pushing the boundaries of sweetness more. Like stealthy cake ninjas we’ll swoop in and make your cake the VIP of the party. CakeBomb is a collaboration of cake artists, bakers and sugar crafters from around the UK and the US who come together to work on a single creative idea…

Tyger, Tyger

‘Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night;’ The Tyger BY WILLIAM BLAKE Do you dare walk into the tiger’s lair? Visit The Cake & Bake Show Manchester 2014, April 4-6 to find out … Bring a sense of wanderlust, adventure, and maybe some bug repellant! Tickets for The Cake & Bake Show are available here.