This weekend’s cake was for a truly lovely gentleman who was celebrating his 80th birthday. His daughter’s brief was “a walking/outdoors theme but I trust you so do whatever you think best” – how lovely!

She opted for chocolate fudge cake layered with mint choc chip buttercream. I wanted to personalise the cake so I made the signposts showing significant places in the birthday boy’s life (and the distances from his current home!) … where he was born, married, worked and lived.

All decorations are edible and modelled from icing.