Peggy and Alex’s wedding was at the rather fantastical Gosfield Hall, way out in the Essex countryside. I felt like I’d stepped into a game of cluedo (without the murder, obviously)- It was all secret doors in the library and random corridors that looped you back to where you started!

Anyway, I was so so pleased with the finished cake, complete with custom made stand- It all just looked so elegant and fitted in beautifully with the surroundings. And I was particularly chuffed with my first bit of royal icing piping work- you dont have to do that much on cupcakes, but I couldnt get cutters big enough to match the initials on the cupcakes for the top tier, so I gingerly picked up a piping bag and…. pleasantly surprised myself! A bit of gold paint finished it off, and it all matched up a treat, if I do say so myself!

The custom cake stand provided a bit of head scratching too- Polystyrene cake dummies, wrapped in silky ribbons, with gold cake boards sandwiching each layer. A word of wisdom to anyone wanting to make one of these- DONT USE SUPERGLUE!!! It melts the polystyrene, which while looking quite cool, doesnt really stick things together! After ruining a lot of cake dummies, I finally discovered that no more nails worked a treat