Monday 2nd of January 2012
Nonsuch Frills on a Wedding Cake in Surrey
These images are of the wedding of Helen & Charles, back in October at the beautiful Nonsuch Mansion, just outside Cheam in Surrey.
I actually met Helen and Charles at a wedding event at Nonsuch back in January last year. Whilst I met many couples on that day, Helen and Charles really stuck in my mind as they were so warm and friendly and Helen had the most beaming smile of the day.
They booked in for a design consultation a couple of months later to discuss the details of their wedding cake and to also try some cake samples.
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Sunday 18th of December 2011
Victorian Designs feature on The Ebury Collection
These images are just some of the new Hall of Cakes 2012 Collection. The 7 tier Victorian creation is one of our most detailed to date. However, we have just received an enquiry for a 9 tier wedding cake in a similar style. It’s seems we have become quite renowned for our Victorians designs.
However, our ‘Vintage Sugar Garden’ (blog post ‘Kent Vintage in London Bride’ http://www.hallofcakes.co.uk/blog/46/kent-vintage-in-london-bride) is also a causing quite a stir. This beautiful array or cakes, sugar cups and saucers,...
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Sunday 16th of May 2010
The Icing on the Cake
It was my dear friend Karen who persuaded me to give up my city job as an insurance broker and start my own cake business. Karen and I worked together as brokers and it is almost 4 years ago that I persuaded her to attend a course of evening classes with me to learn the art of sugarcraft. Karen if you are reading this, I hope you won’t mind me saying (because it really is true!) that you didn’t have a natural flare and thus decided to stick to insurance broking (which you are very good at!)…..
The rest as they say is history...
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