Tulip Painting

I made this birthday cake for a lady who loves tulips. It is an extra tall cake measuring 7.5"  high, 6" in diameter. The bottom layers are Victoria sponge, the top layers are chocolate cake, all filled and iced with French buttercream, which is lush.

I was a bit worried about delivering the cake as it was so tall I thought it might topple over. It was fine, though. I needn't have worried. The cake was securely fixed to the cake drum with melted chocolate!

Onto the next project!

Ghostbusters: Giant Marshmallow Man

Lots of people asked me if this was a toy or a cake. It is cake for sure. The last two photos show the cake when it was in progress! It is vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream. The underside of the 'torso' is styrofoam. The head is made of rice krispie treats and everything else is gumpaste/sugarpaste. It is my first 3d cake of a standing figure, so I'm really happy that one, I've made it, and two, it stayed standing! The cake box acted as background too and really set the cake off.

There was a lot of work that went into the cake. The armature (support) took a while and next time I will use threaded metal poles for added stability. Covering the cake in sugarpaste took two tries as the sugarpaste wasn't strong enough so I used the panelling method which worked better.

I do love this cake!