IV Mat Bookclub - the birthday girl's favourite book

I was asked to make a book for a lovely lady in Malahide. By a lovely lady in Malahide. They are both members of a Book Club and this was the birthday girl's favourite book. The cake itsself is our new recipe Chocolate Cake - incredibly luscious and delicious and it was covered in fondant before being handpainted to look like a well-loved version of the book that inspired the cake

I got a lovely email off the lady who ordered the cake from me:

----- Original Message -----

From: sinead english

To: Niamh Geraghty

Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:22 AM

Subject: Rebecca book cake

Niamho,

My Mum was filling me in on her night out and how your cake was received.
Mary the receiver of the cake was overwhelmed and her legs went wobbly with the surprise. She thought
it was a book on first look.  She wouldnt cut it so next book club meeting they may want to order
some cake so they can actually get to eat some cake!!!

Well done cake lady!

Sinead Spain

Tiffany for Norma

It was my friend's 50th birthday last week and I struggled as to what kind of cake to make her.  Then I remembered she loves jewellery so I settled on this.  The cake itself is a 7" square Belgian Chocolate Fudge cake . . with Orange oil for a little citrus kick.  The bow is made from mexican modelling paste and the lid is made to be lifted off so you can write a message underneath it.

It's not just market menus we're doing these days!

We've been so busy I haven't had time to come on here and show you all what we've been up to.  Yup, the market is taking up a lot of our time.  It doesn't make us much more than the cost of our ingredients but it does give us exposure and instant feed back regarding flavours so it's worth it's weight in gold for that alone.

I'm not sure if I've posted the Birkin Bag photos here yet but . . . I had been hoping to make a caricature of Helena and Gary Barlow.  The photo we received and then sent on to eat your photo wasn't of good enough quality to get proper detail from so we had to go with plan b.  Plan b, by the way, was unknown until two days before the cake was due!!!  Eat your photo sent on a proof but it was too late for my cake this time.  Huge, huge shame because it's fantastic.  If you want something special I suggest you check these people out as I've used them a couple of times before and they ALWAYS deliver.  Oh, and you get a hard copy of the edible image to keep for yourself.  For ever and ever.