Nan's Nice Cakes

I first started making cakes, as most people do, for friends and family members.

My Nan started it all off as she always made all the big birthday, wedding and christening cakes. All were fruit and iced in the traditional hard royal icing – like it or not! She never made sponges and everything was hand mixed; she never owned an electric mixer! I remember watching her and my Grandad (Pappy Tom), as a small child, beating the heck out of a bowl of butter for several minutes. Taking it in turns when their arms were aching!

When my Dear Nan got to 80 she was diagnosed with cancer. At a previous family gathering she said that she was getting too old to carry on and someone would have to take over. Looking directly at me she said
“Aren’t you Lisa!”.
Well I dare not argue. So off I went to the local college to do a six week course (one hour a week in the evening) on sugar craft and I have recently taken an online professional sugar crafting course including a flower course by the renowned Suzanne Esper.