If you're going to have a milestone birthday party at Lord's Cricket ground, you NEED a cricket themed birthday cake. Our customer ordered just that for her dad's 80th birthday at the legendary cricket venue.

We do all sorts of bespoke birthday cakes - OTT cakescapes, extravagant multi-tiered like our recent surfing themed cake, even bougie little 6 inchers.

But I do love a simple, well-executed, tiered cake where the hand-modelled cake decorations set against a flawlessly finished cake truly shines.

This cake is made with soft and squishy chocolate sponge using Valrhona cocoa which gives it a deep chocolate taste with no bitterness and our Hero recipe is as moist as moist can be. The layers are sandwiched with chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream, hazelnut praline paste and crushed hazelnuts. ALL three tiers!

We then decorated the tiers with a hand-modelled sugarpaste sculpted figurine of our customer's dad - he was described as dapper and stylish so we put him in a linen jacket over his cricket whites keeping in theme AND personality.

Edible cricket paraphernalia like wickets, balls and bats and a big scoreboard - 80 Still Batting, with piped buttercream grass finishes off the cake. Sometimes simple can be effective and just as dramatic.

Custom birthday cakes are what we do. Getting a custom cake made is such a fun process - get in touch with us via WhatsApp with your budget, portions and date and venue and we can get brainstorming on how we can make your perfect cake that ticks all the boxes and we'll make sure to deliver your cake to your London venue (or Surrey!) in perfect condition. And then sit back and enjoy everyone enjoying it.

Reshmi xoxo