Rachel Bakes

Hello there! It’s been a while, right?
I am still not ready to return to baking cakes just yet, as juggling full time work + a toddler + having a life, is harder than I had expected… but, that doesn’t mean I’m not still baking.

I have a new outlet for my creativity in the form of sourdough. Back in the early days of the pandemic I started my first sourdough and it kind of spiralled from there.

Recently, I attended a wonderful workshop with Natalie from who is simply, a wonderful mentor and have learned so much about the art of sourdough.

I have decided whilst I am taking a Hiatus from cake, I will share some of my breadscapades on here, I do hope you’ll stick around ❤️

(Whilst I’m not selling any of this bread, it’s totally for me and my family, the wonderful does, get in touch with her for your bready needs and to attend a workshop!!)

Happy 1st birthday to my little lady!

So, my break from cake and Instagram has been a little longer than I had anticipated. This last year as been a huge change for me, and I’m loving spending all this time with my little pea.

This was the cake made for her birthday a few weeks ago, inside is a delicious carrot cake with vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream. Decorated with hand painted watercolour animals, which matched her invitations 🦊

I am still not back baking, it’s likely that I will still be having more time away 💛

Oooo she’s naked! 🙈

There’s something so nice about a cake before florals and toppers are added, and it helps you to appreciate those sharp edges even more!

If you too loooooove this design style as much as me, has made a wonderful video tutorial for how to do this technique which is just fab!

Now that I enjoyed that short break after my crazy last week I now have time to start sharing some of the amazing cakes that I’ve made over the last few weeks!

This cake had McKinley’s 2 kitties on the top!

Inside was a delicious chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream, covered in white chocolate ganache.

I love the super sharp edges on this guy! 🙌🏼

▫️Sharp edges with tools from
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▫️white colouring:

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This week has been a crazy one finishing up orders for 2020!

I’ve had a lot of cakes on which I’m excited to share over the next couple of weeks.

My socials will be slowing down a little over the next couple of months as I’m going to be busy with a small human!

Thank you so much for your love and support over the last few years and when I feel ready again, I’ll be back making cakes next year. So please keep an eye out! ❤️❤️

Violet is a huge Harry Potter fan and didn’t want any ordinary Potter cake. She also had an incredible Potter themed sleepover party and cupcake decorating competition which I helped at, pictures coming soon!

The Hogwarts crest was hand painted and was perhaps my most adventurous project yet, it took a whopping 5 hours to paint and I was so happy with the result!

Finished with a personalised calligraphy card topper.

▫️Edible art paints:
▫️Card:
▫️Ganache on Ganache
▫️black colour:

I’m ready for my close up! 📸

▫️Colour: Dusky Pink
▫️White:
▫️Gold Leaf:

3 years since I made this cake table!

With the help of my amazing bridal party I made 2 wedding cakes, 50 cupcakes and 3 trays of brownies all in the days before the wedding 👰🏻 🤵🏻 (plus a hand painted fake cake made during a class in the run up to the wedding!)

My cake style has changed a little since making this, but I still absolutely love it ❤️

▫️Photo credit:
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▫️Background cake: made during a class

Rainbow surprise cake 🌈

Hidden inside this bright red cake was a whopping 7 layers of rainbow cake! She was over 25cm tall, and contained all the colours of the rainbow.

Covered in red chocolate ganache, rainbow flowers and a hand painted twilight sparkle my little pony!

▫️Flower cutters:
▫️Edible art paint
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Oh Baby!

I just adore this cake, and think it’s definitely in my personal top 5 that I’ve made!

I’ve wanted to make this style of cake for so long, after admiring the beautiful creations of .

She has made a wonderful video tutorial for how to do this technique which is just fab!

▫️Florals: .de
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▫️Edible art paint: Glamourous gold
▫️Technique:

My wonderful friends Chelsea and Matt we’re due to get married at the start of August in Italy, sadly Corona virus had other plans and which meant they had to postpone until next year.

HOWEVER love always finds a way and, these beautiful humans got married in a private ceremony here in Germany.

I surprised them with this gorgeous, small but super tall cake as you’ve got to have cake when you get married, right?!

The colours of the abstract ganache were chosen to match the brides bouquet. Then, the cake was finished with gold leaf, simple florals and a handmade heart topper.

Huge congratulations to the gorgeous couple! ❤️❤️

▫️flowers: .de
▫️Card:
▫️Colour: Dusky pink
▫️Gold leaf:

S M A S H C A K E 💙

I love getting to create cakes for all kinds of different events, this cute little cake was created to be smashed by this little love on his 1st birthday photo shoot!

Photos by .babyphotography

▫️Rose gold lustre:
▫️Colour: ice blue
▫️ SMBC recipe:

@ Rachel Bakes