{"id":972,"date":"2025-04-07T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/?p=972"},"modified":"2025-04-07T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:30:11","slug":"postman-retirement-cake-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/04\/07\/postman-retirement-cake-cupcakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Postman Retirement Cake & Cupcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One of my work colleagues reached out to me to ask if I could make a retirement cake for her husband who had retired from Royal Mail after working there for 47 years! I agreed to give it a go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started by originally coming up with the below, very poor, mock-up of a cake based on various other cakes I’d found online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We agreed with the “usual” cake – vanilla sponge, strawberry jam, and vanilla buttercream. The toppers could be whatever I fancied so I went with cartoony postman (one from when he started and one from retiring) and decorations made from fondant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To go with the main cake, there was also 48 cupcakes. Again, I was told to go with whatever flavours I fancied so we did:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 x Chocolate
12 x Vanilla
12 x Cookies & Cream
12 x Lemon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cupcakes were all made with a vegan recipe too so that most people could enjoy cake:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The cakes were topped with flavoured buttercream (made with plant butter) and both edible and non-edible decorations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got the post-themed ones from e-bay as they were printed on edible icing paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To avoid the toppers from wilting, I made fondant discs to sit between the toppers and the buttercream, and added the toppers just before delivery to keep them as fresh as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s some shots of the fondant decorations “drying out” before being added to the cake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of my work colleagues reached out to me to ask if I could make a retirement cake for her husband who had retired from Royal Mail after working there for 47 years! I agreed to give it a go. I started by originally coming up with the below, very poor, mock-up of a cake … <\/p>\n

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