Recently...

Well, the festive season is upon us and at Sugar and Ice of Shaw we have been as busy as usual, if not more so.

There have been various cakes, cupcakes and even a party or two :0)

So, to re-cap; here is what we have been up to.

This large 16 inch cake was designed completely by the customer.  The customer knew exactly what she wanted and was kind enough to sketch the design, which we simply copied.  The cake was delivered to an address in Chadderton a couple of weeks ago and the feedback we received was very positive :0)

We always make celebration cakes and cupcakes, but recently we had a "left-over" chocolate sponge and thought we would try to make a Black Forest Gateau! A family get-together had been arranged for Sunday 25th November and we thought it an excellent excuse to try this out.  We smothered the centre of the cake with Morello Cherries and Cherry jam topped with fresh whipped cream.  We piped fresh cream onto the top of the cake and decorated it with glace cherries and crumbled Cadbury's Flake chocolate.  The difference between this and a frozen gateau...well, there was no comparison and let's just say that this cake did not make it through the entire Sunday :0)

This 12 inch chocolate sponge cake was for a customer who had requested a 3D Waybuloo figure.  We had the figure holding a number 1 and decorated the cake with pastel shaded flowers and Waybuloo butterflies.  Perfect for any little girl :0)

Holly's Cupcake Party

At Sugar and Ice of Shaw we pride ourselves in offering FABULOUS FUN Cupcake Parties!

 

Prices start from as little as £65 for a unique experience in the comfort of your own home.  Even better, you do NOTHING! So sit back and relax whilst we amuse your little ones for an entire 2 hours.  All we require is the use of a kitchen or dining room table to accomodate your guests.  Our parties appeal to both girls AND boys from the age of 5 upwards. 

 

Sugar and Ice of Shaw will come to your home; our set-up takes minutes.  We protect your table with a heavy duty cupcake tablecloth and use mats for each guest.  We have cups and ramekins for paintbrushes, sprinkles and glitter.  Before we start, we hand out aprons, hair bobbles and hand-gel - hygiene is always top priority.  Each party guest receives a box of 6 cupcakes to decorate.  We take EACH party guest through tuition in expertly piping buttercream rose swirls.  Then we offer coloured icing in every conceivable colour along with our many different cutters.  We also offer many different tools and explain what each one does to create wonderful effects on each of their cupcakes.  After, each guest receives an achievement certificate and we leave once ensuring your kitchen/dining room is immaculate.

 

The feedback we have received on all our parties has been amazing.  We are always told that the experience is great value for money, unique, educational, imaginative and best of all memorable.

 

So why not make a party experience "different" next year?  We guarantee your birthday girl or boy will love it!

 

 

 

 

After teaching buttercream swirls, we allow the children

to roll out the sugarpaste and use the cutters

 

 

The parties are a fab opportunity to inspire the children to

be creative.  In decorating the cupcakes it helps build confidence

and gives an immense sense of pride

which is so important in these early years :0)

 

 

You may be surprised to learn that boys gain so much from this experience.

Not all our cutters are "girly" - there is something for everyone

 

 

 

Here are some fabulous cupcakes

We unleashed the Xmas cutters...well, it is November!

 

 

Birthday Girl Holly

  



  Party Guest Daniel





HALLOWEEN Cupcake Class

HALLOWEEN CUPCAKE CLASS

SATURDAY 27TH OCTOBER

10am-12pm

 

Sugar and Ice of Shaw are offering exclusive CUPCAKE CLASSES!! Our very first class was on Saturday 27th October within the beautiful tearoom at BowsRUs in Rochdale.

We advertised our classes on Facebook back in September and it wasn't long before all 20 places had been booked and paid for.  Wow. 

Here I am all ready to teach!

 

 

Demonstrating modelling sugarpaste

 

Some of our class members

 

 

Making ghosts!

 

Fun for all

 

Demonstrating buttercream swirls

 

Our class eagerly listening

 

We had a good selection of girls AND boys in the class

 

Making zombies

 

 

Lots of concentration

 

 

imaginative

 

 

These are great!

 

All finished

 

Fantastic

 

These were mine done later at home

 

 

 

The feedback we received was brilliant.  We were so pleased.  We even sold some of our chocolate figures for Halloween.  Of the 20 class members, 15 booked onto our Christmas Class immediately afterwards. 

 



 

 

 

It's all about PINK!

Yes, it is all about PINK for October for Breast Cancer Awareness - so please wear your ribbons and badges, but most of all make a donation or sponsor someone for this important cause.

We have been all about pink for a different reason this week! We had an order for a Christening.  Our customer asked us for a "Harrison" Cake (we like giving them names now, lol) but in pink, for her daughter Lacee.  Not only that, but the customer wanted 24 of our special baby cupcakes to go with it! This was a large order so we were fortunate not to have any other bookings this week!

We made the Christening cake on Thursday and made the cupcakes on Friday. The order was collected on Sunday morning and the customer was very happy we are pleased to say :0)

Just to say thanks...

One of our old school friends who we found on Facebook has kindly always supported Sugar and Ice of Shaw, even whilst living 10 miles away in Stalybridge.

Recently, he was "out of action" for some considerable time after having foot/leg surgery.  This meant that his wonderful wife had to help him out with many everyday tasks!

After his long recovery, he sent us an email asking if we could make his wife a "thank you" cake.  No problem! The customer only needed a small 8 inch cake with the words "Thank you for everything, love Michael" - he also requested some arms hugging.

We baked the cake fresh as always, and covered it in a bright turquoise blue colour as we wanted the cake to be a little different.  We thought bright pink would look really striking against the base colour and instead of arms hugging, thought 2 cute teddies hugging may look better. Cheeky, aren't we!! Finally, we added some pink blossoms around the base of the cake.

The cake was delivered to Stalybridge today and we got to watch the customer hand over the special gift.  His wife was really touched by the gesture and just a few hours later we received a message to say that it was very tasty too! LOL!

BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT

A number of months ago, we received an email from a lady on behalf of Crompton House School, Shaw. 

She was looking for a local business to kindly make a "Britain's Got Talent" themed cake to be raffled off to raise money towards Christies Young Cancer Ward.

We make it our mission to make at least ONE cake for charity each year so eagerly accepted the request.  We even told the lady that we would try to replicate the judges table! She was thrilled with our response, so we wrote the order in our diary and did nothing more.

Last week, the time had come to make the cake! We were just about to contact the customer to confirm when she rang us for assurance that we were still able to rise to the challenge!  Of course, we put her mind at ease immediately and informed her that the cake would be ready for collection well in time for the school's charity event.

We spent many hours creating the cake and worked until 11pm.  We even continued with the decorating at 7am the next day...

When we made the table and the judges, we decide to turn Simon's buzzer red - let's face it, it usually is.  However, we had a great idea. What if, Simon hadn't pressed his buzzer...what if, someone else had?

So, we added Simon's best friend... Britain's Got Talent winner 2012, Pudsey! awww

The cake was collected on the Wednesday morning ready for that night's Talent Show and Charity Fundraiser.  We were kindly given free tickets to attend but were that busy baking, we could not break off to take part in all the fun planned! We have heard since that the night was a resounding success.

Well, we were glad to help!

Simply delicious...

At Sugar and Ice of Shaw, we only ever receive orders from customers wanting our exclusive and innovative designs.  Of course, that is fine with us! We love being creative!

Sometimes, however, we like to try out new flavours, ingredients and toppings...  This week was the ideal opportunity as we wanted to donate some cupcakes to 3 local businesses in Shaw who have kindly agreed to advertise our business free of charge within their premises:

THE WEAVERS ANSWER public house
LUCIA'S COFFEE SHOP AND ICE-CREAM PARLOUR
FISH-NET AQUARIUM AND PETS

We thought that Raspberry Ripple and White Chocolate sounded heavenly.  The huge cupcakes were baked fresh this afternoon.  The light moist sponge was infused with raspberry essence and coloured with red throughout, not mixed; and of course we added some delicious creamy white chocolate chips.  The buttercream was made using fresh ingredients, flavoured again with raspberry and finally we stirred in some red colouring very gently, to give a rippled effect.  The buttercream was piped onto the cupcakes and a sprinkling of white chocolate chips added on top.

The only problem was that there weren't any leftovers for US to try!!