The Golden Snitch

I've finally made my first sphere cake- and what a joy to make! I purchased the hemisphere pans from Lakeland (they had a sale after all) because it's way simpler than carving, which makes a huge mess and is time consuming. Did I mention it makes a lot of mess? The cake was made with chocolate cake and dark chocolate ganache. The wings were made of rice/wafer paper, also my first time to use rice/wafer paper, and everything was sprayed with edible bronze lustre. I thought about perhaps spraying with gold lustre, but decided that the snitch was more of a bronze than gold colour. Fortunately the lustre adhered to the ganache. If it hadn't it would have meant I had to cover the cake in fondant and then spray and covering a sphere cake in fondant isn't the easiest. 

Hope you like the cake!

Little Red Roses

This lovely cake was made for a lovely girl who turned 21 recently. Her name is Bethany Rose so the flowers on the cake were made to reflect the name. The lovely lemon yellow colour of the cake really shows off the beautiful little rolled roses to maximum effect. Simple but so beautiful and adorable! 

Monster Book of Monsters (Harry Potter)

I made this cake for my girl, Nicola, who turned 16 last week. She is a Harry Potter fan and I managed to make this cake during half term without her knowing it was her cake. She thought I was making a cake for a customer. I did have to ask her not to enter the kitchen when I got round to decorating the cake. 

I was determined to make a special cake for Nicola. She missed out last year when we had to be away on her birthday to attend a wedding. The look on her face when she saw the cake was priceless! I had literally just finished the cake when she came into the kitchen, and as she approached it dawned on her that this was her cake! It was a fantastic surprise for my girl! She didn't want to cut it! I love ya, Nicola :)

Pink and Black Cake

This was a very last minute order I got. The cake is very simple with swiss dots and black and pink flowers, and a black ribbon around the cake to finish off the look. It is chocolate cake with swiss vanilla buttercream. I hope my customer's girlfriend likes it!

Peppa Pig Cake

I've disappeared for a rather long time! I made this Peppa Pig cake about two weeks ago. It's a lovely little cake- just 6" in diameter and just over 4" deep. I love the how the colours work together. It's so bright and cheerful!

MMF Success!!

I have attempted to make marshmallow fondant (MMF) before without much success. I got hold of a new recipe and finally have success! Here is the fondant on a dummy cake:

And here is the fondant on the Monster Book of Monsters I did recently:

MMF is lovely to use- makes for a smooth covering for cakes with no tearing and 'elephant skin' (the wrinkling you get sometimes with fondant). It tastes lovely although there's no getting away from the fact that it is sweet because it needs a lot of sugar to be made. I'll definitely be making more MMF for my customers' cakes!