I am a cake obsessive, based in West Sussex, UK.

I started off making cakes for family and friends before giving up a proper career in favour of playing with sugar full time. Having worked for two bakeries making their wedding and celebration cakes, I am now looking toward world domination with breaks for coffee and chat.

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To see my website go to: www.kasserina.com. You can email me on info@kasserina.com.

I also sell some sugarcraft items on Etsy. Please go to https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/KasserinaHome?ref=hdr_shop_menu

Thanks for looking!

Monday, August 25, 2014

Safari birthday cake - August 2014


Today was my friend Clare's 40th birthday so her family threw her a surprise birthday party.  She has a big love of giraffes so her daughter Cerys wanted a giraffe based cake.  


Cerys has a real talent for sugarcraft so she made the star of the cake, a gorgeous wired giraffe.


The cake was a torted chocolate fudge cake with alternated dark chocolate and white vanilla buttercream.


To make the palm trees, I covered drinking straws with chocolate style candy melts and scored with a cocktail stick to produce the scaled effect. I wired 4 sizes of flower paste leaves, taped them together and inserted the stem into the chocolate covered straws.  I poked bamboo BBQ skewers into the cake at the required angles, chopped offll the excess with some snips and popped the trees onto them.


To make the palm fronds I used a basic leaf cutter set and my new homemade leaf veiner, then cut notches out of the leaves before drying them in position.


The larger letters and the numbers I made out of thin sausages of Mexican paste, then extruded even thinner sausages to make the smaller letters. I hand painted the "40" to reflect the giraffe theme.



I covered the cake and board with pale yellow fondant, airbrushed it with brown, yellow and green edible colour, piped on some grasses and added some fondant tufts of  grass around the trees and lettering.


Happy birthday lovely lady.  Hope you enjoyed your party, you are very loved and very deserving of that love. X

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Black and purple wedding cake - August 2014



Flowers, birds and gold leaves made for a three tier black fondanted wedding cake.  The smaller flowers  (around 70) were taped into small sprays of 3 or 5.  Leaves were taped into sprays of 3. Larger roses were formed around polystyrene (styrofoam) balls, larger ones had wired petals around the outside.  I also made wired hydrangea sprays and small petunia flowers  for the cake.  Sorry, not many photos.

I only made the decorations so didn't see finished cake, hopefully there are photos to follow though.


Wired rose, just steamed.











The groom's design.  Gorgeous.



Hope the wedding was wonderful.  Congratulations!

Update:  Here's a photo from the groom of the finished cake.  Sounds like they had a fab time and enjoyed the cake.  Happy days to you both. x