We've baked for a fair few birthday cakes for celebrities and their kids in our 14 years of caking - whether it's bespoke and personalised or from our ready-designed cake collections. Whilst we can't name names unless they actually share publicly that they've got their cake from us because of GDPR, privacy, basic common courtesy and umm they pay us like every other valued customer of ours in cold, hard cash (not exposure bucks). 

So imagine my joy when one of my personal favourite famous people shared her daughter's personalised Moana inspired cake with her million followers on Instagram!

It's only KATHERINE-FRIKKIN-RYAN! I love her comedy and am an avid listener of her podcast, Telling Everybody Everything (it's my Friday highlight at work whilst I am in the weekend blizzard of birthday cakes).

It wasn't the first time we've baked for Katherine either so having her come back as a repeat customer was even more joyous. This time the cake was for her younger daughter and it was Moana-themed. Specifically, Tamatoa-themed. You know, the antagonist crab in Moana who belts out the banger "Shinyyyy".

Admittedly I did not know who the crab was and had to google images. Using the images as reference I created the sugarpaste model which took the best part of a day.

It was a true case of "trusting the process". Measuring and shaping the crab legs and pincers was probably what took the most time. I must've started and re-started it at least 6 times. And only once when all the fondant shells and sprinkles were glued onto the crab shell and sprayed with lustre was I actually relieved that it wasn't a waste of a day. I love how he turned out!

The cake itself was an 8" size round vanilla Hero sponge cake with our signature Swiss meringue buttercream in sea blue tones. Some edible sand and seashells scattered around and the big edible sugarpaste crab placed on top, this Moana cake was ready to party.

Thank you Katherine for trusting us with baking for your special occasion and we hope to bake for you again soon!

If you have any personalised or bespoke custom cake queries, please get in touch with us via email or whatsapp. We can make anything possible in cake.

Reshmi xoxo