Last family wedding .....

Des's youngest brother got married yesterday. I first met Keith way back in the day when he was a wee blond headed toddler of only two years..... so it was lovely to be there at his wedding to the beautiful Katie.

It was a wonderful day, the last of both families to be married, them both being the babies! It was the most planned out day I have ever attended. So much attention to detail.

I did the cake ... the flowers were not sugarpaste but fresh (which was a bit scary to be honest from a cake bakers point of view) but the bride is ALWAYS in charge when it comes to the final decision !!

It turned out looking quite nice and everyone seemed to love it but I was not a bit happy with that middle layer :-(.

The bottom layer was chocolate biscuit cake, the centre fruit and the top is red velvet - which is delish - so if you've never made it - away with you and try it out.

Or wait for an invite to mine some time.

Roisin Debs ....

just some recent stuff !!

On with the catching up of recent events within our little lives...

Róisin graduated from secondary school:



She is heading now next September to do a one year Portfolio preperation course - focusing on Fashion and Textile design. So she is one of the lucky ones not dependant on her leaving results later this month.

One recent windy monday lunchtime - one of my favourite trees was a casualty of the wind.





We had to get the rest of it cut down, and while we now have enough wood for the coming winter - I really miss that tree!





And Liadán turned 12. And the hormones have kicked in. Which is ............. nice?

Mammy-in-law's birthday

My Mammy-in-law was 70 this week. And earlier this year - at my niece's communion - I jumped in and offered to make the cake. One of my sister-in-laws (I have seven of them) works in Superquinn ... who would want to have been her these past two weeks!! scary times for her, her daughter and my brother-in-law who have all been wondering about their jobs - but I digress ....

Anyhow - said sis-in-law usually gets the walshies birthday cakes - but not this time !! This time I got to play around a little.

I as per usual did not manage to get a good photo of the cake but it was terrific!


I used a decent (read a lot) of edible glitter and had a ball. Despite a disaster when baking the bottom layer when I completely forgot the recipie and had to throw out a large cake!! Thankfully I then remembered how to bake and away we went.

The top layer was chocolate - and delish - and the bottom was vanilla - and I got tired and didn't go ahead with the third layer!!

It was a major hit at the party and I have managed to already secure two further bookings on the foot of it!

A year has passed....

.... since I entered anything onto my blog. And I have been thinking a lot lately that I should start to reblog.

So lets start by showing off Róisín's 18th birthday cake ...:

Pucci Handbag .... Cake

My eldest daughter - Róisín is 17 today. Last year she was away for the weekend of her birthday, and we had a family wedding the day before, so it was a very low key affair.

Today she and I are heading off into temple bar for a bit of shopping and then we are meeting up with Des, Seán and Líadán for a meal out.

So I made a pucci inspired handbag cake, its chocolate orange cake on the inside ... so sod the diet and I shall be having some of this later (yum!!)

Snake Pie ...

Well its not really a snake pie of course! It is a chocolate cake, baked in a ring, covered with nutella spread, chocolate flavoured sugarpaste, and some jelly snakes in the middle.

And - TaDa - you now have a snake pie cake.

Mosaic - better image?

Hopefully this is a clearer image of the mosaic. Hopefully !! I wish my photography skills were better - was thinking this morning (as I had a lovely walk in the park) that come September and the evening classes are re-starting I may just join a photography class or club even.

Mosaic Work - redoing the splashback.

I havent completly fallen off the radar - just been facebooking really. Mainly I have been cutting up bits of glass and stickin em onto bits of wood!

You may remember i did a splashback for the kitchen in Cavan last year ...see http://littlebit-alittlebitofstuff.blogspot.com/2009/07/kitchen-mosaic-and-why-it-needs-to-be.html and you may remember that I was not overly happy with it. Actually I was not a bit happy ..

So I have been redoing it - bigger and (I think) better :

This is it ... two out of the three panels ...

I like that its a bit busier than before ..

I am paying more attention to detail this time around too ... and have gone with small small pieces for the black background whereas I tried to do large the last time.

I love the little fairy at the corner of the 'garden'

Pirate Ship Cake ...

Chocolate cake - covered in chocolate butter icing and then finished using roll out icing. Buttercream for the sea ... please note there be sharks in them ther waters !!