We Love to Cake

CUPCAKES AT SELFRIDGES ALMOST SOLD OUT!!

2011-10-28T14:49:00.002+01:00

The Butcher of Caker Street (my alter ego) Gruesome Halloween cupcakes have sold very fast! All the boxes of 4 have gone and the singles are on their way, whoop!

If you missed them the last chance will be tomorrow as thats my final delivery

Halloween cupcakes in Selfridges 27th and 28th October

2011-10-18T15:17:00.004+01:00

Love to Cake will be selling cupcakes in Selfridges this Halloween! They are so gruesome they will be sold using my alter ego company name The Butcher of Caker Street.

Here's a taster, there will be 6 cupcakes in the range sold as singles and in boxes of 4. Stock is limited so get there early!!

xxx

www.lovetocake.co.uk

OK! Magazine

2011-09-20T10:42:00.001+01:00

My REEM cake is in this week. If you've missed in don't worry, the article is up on my website here

Muppets wedding cake

2011-09-20T10:38:00.002+01:00

What a wonderful idea for a wedding cake, Rowlf from the Muppets playing the Piano.

This cake was wonderful to sculpt and I particularly enjoyed sculpting the piano. The cake was delivered to The Berkeley Hotel in Mayfair, I wonder if they have ever received a wedding cake quite like this one!

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Wedding cakes August 2011

2011-08-30T18:09:00.003+01:00

I like to call August the Month of Carnage as I am always flat out making wedding cakes. Here are 2 of my favourites from this mammoth month...

Pigs in Love wedding cake to feed over 100 people.

Chamonix Mont Blanc iconic poster wedding cake

Bring on Septembers weddings...

Louise

www.lovetocake.co.uk

Peter Andre's cakes

2011-07-07T09:54:00.003+01:00

Ah Peter, he is so lovely so I jumped at the chance to make Junior and Princess Tiaamii's birthday cakes this year.

Both cakes are in this weeks New! magazine on page 36 in Peter Andre's column.

Lots of exciting jobs coming up, some high profile and on television! I'll let you know as soon as I'm allowed to!

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

ALICE COOPER ALICE COOPER!!

2011-06-20T12:09:00.004+01:00

Next week I will be making cupcakes for none other than my hero, ALICE COOPER! I will be using my alter ego The Butcher of Caker Street so that I can make something truly horrific.

This is the dream...

To see some gory cakes you can visit my alter ego blog - but be warned, they are not pretty...

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

Kerrang! Music Awards 2011

2011-06-10T15:28:00.002+01:00

Finally I can blab about my top secret job! I was making cupcakes for the Kerrang! Music Awards 2011 this week. VERY exciting and big thank you to Miss Cakehead who master minded the whole thing, click on her name to see the carnage from the Awards on her blog. The audience were handed the yummy cupcakes whilst sat at their tables.

Who knows, Alice Cooper may have eaten one of my cakes... that is the dream.

Here are the cupcakes, miniature versions of the actual awards given out this year.

If you want to see the 'other' cupcakes I made for the Awards then check out The Butcher of Caker Street blog - please please do not look at this if you are easily offended, the cakes are rude and lude...

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

How to Make Cake Pops

2011-05-09T11:33:00.004+01:00

Cake Pops ahoy! May's newsletter let's you into the secret of how to make Love to Cake's famous butter cream... a vital ingredient when making Love to Cake's Cake Pops.

To see May's Newsletter have a look here and to sign up for the next Cake Pop installment, you can click here

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

info@lovetocake.co.uk

SuperWill and SuperKate Royal Wedding Cupcakes

2011-04-20T11:09:00.002+01:00

It's Royal Wedding cake crazy and here are some more delights that will be on sale at Maiden, 188 Shoreditch High Street on 28th April from 11am until we sell out. Enjoy...

Super Will and Super Kate!

I LOVE it

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

Will and Cake pop up shop more details...

2011-04-18T08:57:00.003+01:00

Our Will and Cake shop will be popping up from 11am on 28th April at Maiden, 188 Shoreditch High Street, London.

Make sure you're there early! More pics of Love to Cakes cupcakes to follow this week...

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

April's Newsletter

2011-04-07T16:05:00.004+01:00

April's newsletter has gone out, click here if you would like to have a look. This month's tip is all about cake pops. Part 1 - how to make the sponge.

Click here to sign up to the Love to Cake Newsletter

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

info@lovetocake.co.uk

Will and Cake

2011-04-07T08:47:00.003+01:00

With the Royal Wedding fast approaching Miss Cakehead has set up a "Will and Cake" inspired pop up cake shop. A few selected cake makers will be selling Royal Wedding cakes and cupcakes so you can stock up before the big day and the lovely loooong bank holiday.

The shop will only pop up for a few hours so you'll need to get in fast! It's all happening at Maiden, 188 Shoreditch High Street on the on 28th April. I'll be tweeting further details on timings from @lovetocake

Here's a taster of the cakes Love to Cake will be selling.

Let the Royal Celebrations commence...

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

info@lovetocake.co.uk

Wingtastic Butterfly Cake

2011-03-28T15:43:00.003+01:00

This week I was flat out teaching lots of classes and then creating a rather enormous butterfly cake for little spike's first birthday.

The wings are made from chocolate paste covered in lots of lustre and white rainbow dust.

Bring on next week!

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

Ben Ten meets the Humungousaur...

2011-02-23T17:57:00.003Z

Which is better, a Ben Ten cake or a Humungousaur cake? We couldn't decide so there was only one thing left to do...

Bring out the Ben Ten humungousaur cake.

If you're thinking 'Who?' 'What?' then you clearly don't have kids.

First there was Ben Ten

Then there was the Humungousaur...

It went down a treat...

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

Cake Pops Classes at The Make Lounge

2011-02-17T18:00:00.003Z

They are finally here, Cake Pops Classes with me at The Make Lounge!

I have been teaching cupcake decorating classes at The Make lounge in Islington for nearly a year now. We make marzipan roses, pipe with creamy buttercream and cover everything, including ourselves in glitter. The classes are a lot of fun and now there's even more!

We will be dipping and sprinkling, moulding and sticking. Cake pops are wonderful and taste fantastic.

Classes are filling up quick so click this link to book your place - The Make lounge

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Wedding Blogs

2011-02-01T10:33:00.002Z

Hello everyone. This month I have been on a few wedding blogs which has been wonderful!

Here is the link to Little Miss Wedding and to Beyond Beyond

Lovely

www.lovetocake.co.uk

January's Newsletter

2011-01-12T09:20:00.003Z

Hello everyone, January's newsletter went out last night filled with Christmasssy cakes made over the holidays and hot tips on baking.

If you'd like to see it have a look here and if you'd like to sign up click here.

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

Bring on 2011

2011-01-05T11:33:00.003Z

Happy New Year everyone. I had a surprisingly good one hosting a party round at ours, playing games and being silly. 'The Chocolate Game' and 'Crappers' are a must to bring in the new year...

So I'm back and raring to go. It was so crazy over the holidays I totally forgot to upload a giant cake I made so here's a flash back to before Christmas!

Fresh zesty lemon sponge, enormous amounts of cake, and for the first time... Rice crispie treats!

I used the treats to make the presents and the high top trainers... they took forever but it was worth all the effort.

The birthday boy really loved the cake so I went home happy.

Stay tuned for some more cakes! Newsletter goes out Monday so if you haven't signed up click here and I'll be sending one your way.

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

Drinking Horse Sculpture cake

2010-11-28T19:15:00.005Z

This one was tough, it took a lot of planning but I loved making it and am really pleased with it. The structure was quite complicated as the weight needed to be distributed evenly to make it work.

Nic Fiddian Green creates the most incredible and enormous horse sculptures (think Marble Arch), my client loves them and so this was a tribute to him.

Here is one of his sculptures and I used this style to create the cake.

And here's the cake...

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

Company Magazine shoot Christmas Cake

2010-11-23T13:23:00.005Z

This month Love to Cake is in Company Magazine. I was invited along to be photographed along side other young women who had set up their own businesses. It was pretty terrifying having my photo taken but I got through it and covered myself with fake snow which camouflaged me well...

Here is the Christmas Cake and cupcakes I made for the shoot. They looked wonderful in the pictures and I've had lots of calls which is brilliant.

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

Harry Potter Sorting Hat Cake

2010-11-23T13:19:00.002Z

Here's a cake I made the other day for Rose's 6th birthday. This one smelt incredibly chocolatey and was full of squidgy chocolate butter cream.

I'm making a Horse sculpture cake this week using rice crispie treats as a structure for the first time. VERY useful. Watch this space for the pictures...

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

Halloween White Wolf Cake

2010-11-12T10:02:00.004Z

Here he is, my favourite Halloween cake...

I had wanted to make something completely terrifying but the birthday girl was only 10 and loves the 'Twilight' movies so we went with a white howling wolf instead... I LOVE him and so did she.

His mouth was made with chocolate paste and then glazed so it looked incredibly realistic.

I will however be making the absolutely terrifying wolf cake at some point so watch this space...

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

The World's First 18+ Cake Shop

2010-11-02T08:55:00.006Z

This Halloween Love to Cake took part in the world's first over 18 cake shop in Shoreditch, East London.

"Eat Your Heart Out and The Pretox Potion" was a huge success and the brain child of serial blogger Miss Cakehead.

There was coverage on BBC's The One Show so it promised to be a packed out event. Queues stretched down the road as hungry customers waited to experience the shop's gruesome delights.

With a background in Special make up and creature effects I literally jumped at the chance to get involved and covered in blood and guts once again.

This blog contains cakes that some people may find disturbing...

WARNING 18+ only

Love to Cake's Zombie roadkill cake.

No badgers were harmed in the making of this cake.

Wound and stitches cupcakes as seen

Vile vanilla, reeking raspberry and chilling chocolate made up the wounds and stitches cupcakes. Unbelievably, they were a sell out.

And so passes another Halloween. Big thanks to Miss Cakehead who allowed me to dabble in the dark side once more. I think I've got a taste for it again...

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

Chocolate Chocolate... Unwrapped

2010-10-26T08:24:00.007+01:00

Since the exhibition for the Experimental Food Society last month everything has gone crazy...

Amongst other things Love to Cake were asked to feature at the Chocolate Unwrapped show on the Southbank... bring out the Gorilla!

Love to Cake has also worked with London Zoo - Halloween cupcake pictures coming soon... and will feature at "Eat Your Heart Out and The Pretox Potion" - over 18's only... watch this space for gruesome pictures of cake roadkill...

And finally a triumph in cake sculpture. Love to Cake was asked to make a Billy Bragg CD cover cake...

"Must I Paint You A Picture. The Essential Billy Bragg"

It worked perfectly and 40 year old birthday boy Gareth loved it.

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

Experimental Food Society Spectacular cake sculptures

2010-09-27T13:54:00.006+01:00

I did it, it's over and it was a great success!

The Experimental Food Society Spectacular was incredible. There were queues stretching down Brick lane all day as people clamoured to get at the culinary treats inside.

Love to Cake's exhibits included a life size gorilla cake sculpture, Floating Hedge cakes, and me doing a live sculpture demo of a Sea Turtle.

The Gorilla was massive and presided over the days events...

The day event went on until 5, then we cleared up and got ready for the evening's Banquet. Members of the public who bought tickets would be entertained all night and served a multi course meal by foodies such as jelly mongers Bombas and Parr, Blanch and Shock food design, butter sculptore Simon Smith, food landscape photographer Carl Warner and of course, cakes sculptures by Love to Cake.

Love to Cake made 3 spherical chocolate cake hedges covered in chocolate leaves and birds. When the dessert course arrived the cakes were bought out and admired, then taken to the kitchens and dished out to the guests.

There were lots of press there so keep your eyes peeled for Love to Cake in the papers over the next few weeks.

It was a 20 hour day but it was incredible. More giant cake sculptures here I come...

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

Experimental Food Society Spectacular

2010-09-24T13:31:00.002+01:00

Leaves, leaves, leaves... birds, birds, chocolate, fur..

I am currently creating some enormous and crazy exhibits for the Experimental food Society Spectacular which is being held Saturday 25th September at The Brick House on Brick Lane, East London. There will be many amazing people exhibiting there who do incredible things with food - Lili Vanilli, Michelle Sugar Art and Carl Warner are a few of the big names.

Less than 24 hours to go...

I have enlisted the help of my wonderful husband and our mate Davith as I cannot physically carry any of my exhibits. I have also rented a Streetvan - very very handy - to get me and my cakes get to the venue. Fingers crossed I don't drive into a pothole or collide with anyone...

There is nothing more terrifying than driving with a cake that took you 5 days to make in the car on the uneven and speed bumpy roads of East London.

Wish me luck!

Click here to find out about this new Society and Saturday 25th's spectacular.

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

BEST WEDDING EVER

2010-08-24T19:15:00.007+01:00

I am married! I am now Mrs Louise Yellowlees... My wedding was quite simply the BEST WEDDING EVER, I wish you could all have been there.

Obviously I had to create the BEST WEDDING CAKE EVER so I went with the Welsh/Scottish theme of our wedding and produced a Welsh Spotted Show Sheep. She was a pleasure to make, loved every minute of the day but, sadly did not make it through the evening. By midnight she was gone!

Here she is grazing outside.

As you can see she was enormous. She could have fed over 200 people but 120 managed to finish her off with ease so it was all good.

Wonderful

lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

www.cupcakesahoy.co.uk

Love to Cake first newsletter

2010-07-04T17:26:00.005+01:00

Hooray! Love to Cake will be sending out our very first newsletter at the end of July.

Each edition will feature lots of cakey bits and bobs like...

Love to Cake's most recent amazing creations

Hints and tips on baking

Cake sculpture ideas

Party theme ideas

Discounts on cakes and cupcakes and more...

Pretty much everything you can imagine that's to do with cake!

Subscribers will receive 1 newsletter every 2 months and if you change you mind you can unsubscribe very easily and I will never share your details with any other companies.

If you would like to subscribe you can visit this link: Love to Cake Newsletter

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

www.cupcakesahoy.co.uk

Fairy Cake Crazy...

2010-06-15T17:15:00.008+01:00

Fairy cakes ahoy!

This Fairy cake was lots of fun to make, especially cutting the hair off the doll so that I could sculpt some chocolate icing hair instead...

She was made with vanilla sponge and chocolate ganache icing inside. Lots of chocolate paste on the outside for the flowing dress and wings. Then edible glitter for that sparkly fairy look, lovely.

In the same week I also made a Fairy house cake with a lovely little rose garden and smoke puffing out of the chimney.

Little Antigone had it for her first birthday and loved it.

So many fairies, so little time...

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

www.cupcakesahoy.co.uk

Mr Happy cake meets... Mr Happy?

2010-06-09T11:09:00.008+01:00

Here is Mr Happy, he is made of squidgy vanilla butter cream, vanilla sponge and chocolate paste...

Here is Mr Happy meeting... Mr Happy.

I used to work at advertising agency Wieden and Kennedy and my old work pal Dave Bruno wanted a cake for his girlfriends' 30th birthday. Mr Happy did the job and she was over the moon.

Good work

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

www.cupcakesahoy.co.uk

Finding Nemo cake

2010-05-07T08:17:00.015+01:00

Here he is, the new Finding Nemo cake. I made this in the same way as the Nemo cake I made for Peter Andre which features in 'New' Magazine and 'OK' Magazine twice.

Nemo's poking his little head out of his Anemone home and there's lots of colourful coral life around him, I love making this cake and it changes every time I make it.

I make all the coral using chocolate paste which does admittedly take a very long time, but its worth it in the end.

Lou

www.lovetocake.co.uk

www.cupcakesahoy.co.uk

Sparkly butterfly mini wedding cupcakes

2010-05-05T09:39:00.006+01:00

I made these cupcakes for wedding emergency last week. The bakers had let the bride down so Love to Cake stepped up.

Love to Cake makes the cakes and our sister company Cupcakes ahoy! makes the cupcakes. It has a different name but it's really all still me making all things cake in my kitchen at home.

You can visit the site through the link on Love to Cake and at www.cupcakesahoy.co.uk

Having just bought a new pot of white sparkly dust this was the perfect opportunity to use it. Black cases, white chocolate butter icing and red chocolate paste butterflies and hearts. They smelt incredible and tasted amazing.

Watch out for my white chocolate butter cream recipe post, coming soon...

Lou

Hedge cakes

2010-05-05T09:18:00.013+01:00

Hello and welcome to my first entry on the Love to Cake blog.

It's finally here.

We did it.

My name is Louise and I make the cakes...

It's crazy busy at the moment and I'm branching out to new pastures of cake sculpture.

Hedge cakes are where it's at. I'd been eyeing up the hedges downstairs in the cupcake cafe at Selfridges for a while and I finally got the chance to make one.

Watch this space for more weird and wonderful hedge shapes...

Lou