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…

Spotlight on – Beth Mottershead

Beth Mottershead of Cakes by Beth (that’s Dr Beth Mottershead!) was recently mentioned on Weddzilla in a list of 20 of the most incredible wedding cake makers in the UK, in the same list as Peggy Porschen (and our Tracey Rothwell!).  Her work is seriously top quality and very, very stylish. She recently made a cake for Paul Weller. She’s a very clever and thoroughly lovely chap!  Hiya Beth! Tell us about…

SPOTLIGHT ON – VICKI SMITH

Vicki Smith is just 26, and has been making seriously outstanding cakes as Incredible Edibles for three years now. She produced some of the most eye-wateringly brilliant stuff in CakeBomb’s jungle, and she was prolific too. So many of the edible flowers you see around the walls were hers. Hi Vicki, tell us about yourself.  I’m 26 and live in Flint, North Wales.  I have an art…

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…

The Dark Side of the Jungle

It wasn’t all pretty flowers and cheeky monkeys in our jungle. There were some more sinister-looking creatures lurking in the undergrowth. Photographer Paul Winch-Furness made a film of some of our other jungle dwellers.           Credits: Annabel de Vetten (trophy skull, scorpion), Vicki Smith (Atlas bugs and jewel bugs), Caroline Parkin (grubs), Tracey Rothwell (Dung beetle), Beth Mottershead (gecko).  

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…

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…