by Ketta Shimmin | Apr 7, 2017 | wedding cake, wedding cakes, Wedding Kent
Last May, I was asked by a local venue to produce a semi-naked style for a styled shoot at a beautiful woodland venue in Rolvenden, Kent. This style is very popular indeed this year, with the addition of metallic elements (like this cake), caramel or chocolate drips...
by Ketta Shimmin | Dec 14, 2014 | cake pops, chocolate cake, christmas, christmas cake pops, christmas projects, reindeer cake pops, ruffles, wedding cake
This Christmas period is a very different one in the Flossie Pops kitchen. Instead of Christmas cakes, I’m busy with weddings. Winter weddings are styled very differently and I’ve really enjoyed sitting down with couples and working with different...
by Ketta Shimmin | Nov 14, 2014 | ombre, ruffles, wedding cake
I’m a very lucky person, I love what I do for a living (yes, despite the midnight tears and tantrums, the constant switching between icing-covered creator and responsible parent who must NOT be late for the school pick-up, the aching guilt as I ‘pop the...
by Ketta Shimmin | Sep 22, 2013 | buttercream wedding cake, high humidity buttercream, rustic wedding cake, wedding cake
A few weeks back in August, I had a wedding cake to make. I was really excited about this one as it was completely different to anything I’ve done before. The wedding was to be a fairly intimate, elegant but rustic affair at the couple’s country home and...
by Ketta Shimmin | Apr 14, 2013 | birthday cakes, birthdays, cakes, car cake, digger cake, running shoe cake, running spike cake, surprises, trainer cake, wedding cake
After the busiest week ever (6 celebration cakes, two of them carved into a boxing glove and a running spike shoe, 20 cake pops, 36 cupcakes a birthday party to organise and the small matter of it being the Easter holidays), I was wasting time on Facebook and noticed...
by Ketta Shimmin | Aug 1, 2012 | baking, birthday cakes, cake business, cakes, cupcakes, wedding cake
So today I launched (for want of a better word) the Flossie Pops Cakery Facebook page. It’s been a long time in the making without me even realising. I love making cakes for the children, particularly the challenges they provide when birthdays come around:...
