Phil Sutters' photos with the keyword: celebration

A recent family wedding was celebrated with a Mad Hatter's Tea Party* theme in a lovely country tea garden. *This was based on the Alice in Wonderland stories of Lewis Carroll.

The birthday food may look a bit sparse, but our granddaughter and the rest of her family had a lengthy visit to a local soft-play centre, as her main birthday treat. They dropped in to see us and celebrate her birthday on their way home. The cake was themed around her favorite character from the Paw Patrol children's programmes - Skye, who flies a helicopter to assist in rescues. I had been given six other figures from the series and decided to hide them inside the base under the cake. Each had its own little stand which fitted into an appropriately labelled space. Three of the stands have been turned round so the characters can be seen. The purple line around the base and back board is a miniature 'neon' tube which flashes. It is marketed as a lettering sign but it is very hard to curve the continuous plastic tube to make easily recognisable words.

As the caption says, this is the cake that our granddaughter took on her birthday outing to a soft-play centre.The cake was shared with her family and some of the centre's staff who were having a busy time.

The Black Panther super hero exists in a forest realm so the cake had to be surrounded by trees, albeit not particularly realistic ones. The larger figure was about 6 inches tall and had to be hidden within the cake. That is why the cake was tall and still needed a plinth to make it tall enough. He can barely be seen through the opening in the cake.

This is my wife's favorite design, with the easel, water colour set, the pallette and brushes and the set of colour pencils in their case.

The naughty rabbits are stealing the farmer's carrots. They and the 'ducks' were from a mould set for Easter cakes - Easter Bunnies and chicks. The carrots were probably intended to decorate carrot cake slices. The pumpkins in the trailer were from a Halloween 'sprinkles' set and the leaves were little Christmas tree sprinkles.

The design of this hedgehog cake was one we used when our two boys were young in the 1970s. This one was made for a grandson who has the misfortune to have his birthday on Christmas Eve. His parents usually have a party for him and his friends a month or so earlier, so that it doesn't clash with Christmas parties. That was the party, last year, for which the construction site cake was created, but one has to have a smaller family celebration on the actual birthday and this was the cake for that. We actually had to make another for his mum on her birthday this year. That one had a stripey look with brown and white chocolate buttons.

I am trying to remember what the figures were supposed to represent. I think that they were snowmen or Father Christmases from a set of chocolate moulds for Christmas cake decorations. This was one of the first 'scenic' cakes we made for our grandchildren. I had actually forgotten that I had decorated one as a football match.

This was requested by a grandson who loved going down to see the ducks on our local pond.