Cat cakes

Sorry, I've been a bit dreadful with updates on here. I have been making the cakes- just not always documenting them on here. I mentioned on my profile on Blogspot, but not in this blog itself, but I have fibromyalgia which is a chronic pain condition that makes me very, very tired amongst other things. (for more information check out http://www.fibromyalgia-associationuk.org/ ) This means that sometimes making cakes is impossible, as is updating my blog, and sometimes it's all I can do just to get out of bed. Sounds like an excuse, but yes. I will update as and when!

Right. This cake was made for a very good friend of mine, Becky, who, like me, is a crazy cat lady. We missed her birthday as we were all away celebrating my brother in law's wedding, so this cake was done later for Birthday Version 2 (yes we're nerdy)

I carved this cat out of chocolate cake, sandwiched with chocolate buttercream, and then added all the details in normal icing, apart from the whiskers which are wire, and the feathers, which are, err, feathers. Oh and the candle is real!

Look! Around the back there is a ball of wool and a mouse (my MIL made those and marbled the icing, the whole of the rest of the cake is all my handiwork!)

*Burp!*

While I'm at it, I don't think I posted this cat cake either! This was made as a silly fun cake for one of my Mother In Law's friends who was having a civil partnership. We made her proper wedding cake, and then this silly fun cat cake just for fun. Apparently she put it out at the wedding reception! We would have taken more time over it if we knew it would be on display...

Here's some of the cats drying on my icing mat..

And that, cake fans, is it for today. I have more cakes to show you, but I'm tired now. I hope you enjoy them.