Minion Cake

I love minions! I can't wait for their movie, coming out next year I think? I have made a minion cake topper, but on my list of 'cakes to be made' is a minion carved cake. It's not carved as such. I used 6 inch cakes and topped with a half sphere cake for the top of the head. Putting the details on a cake is the best bit- cake comes alive almost! My favourite bit is the hair- I was worried that they wouldn't stay put, but they did! This is a tallish cake- 9" high and 6" in diameter. The mini cake is 3" round and about 3" high. Mini cake was actually taller and didn't look right, so I cut off the bit above the green stripe, and placed the yellow fondant on top, then added the blue candle with yellow flame. Cake is chocolate and vanilla buttercream, same with the mini cake. 

All together now "Banaaanaaa"...

The Handbag Cake

Had a great time this week making up a handbag cake. My brief was pastel pink, and as little carving as possible to maximise servings. I added the brown for the leather look on the bag, and embossed the recipient's name on the silver clasp. I then added some flowers and scrolls to soften the look, as the bag seemed a bit too 'solid'. I screwed a centre dowel onto the cake drum because the cake was being picked up by my client, and I wanted to make sure the cake was more than secure.

The cake is chocolate and vanilla buttercream. All in all, a lovely cake!

The Number One Cake

My brief was to make a number one shaped cake, with two turtles on it, and match the colour scheme. The picture of the paper plate was sent by my lovely client and I decided to use the design elements in the picture apart from the colours. I think the cake has turned out beautifully and all the elements  work together. I really loved the overall look of the cake!

Halloween!!

I had a blast creating this halloween cake recently. I've been dying to make a cake with a minion in it and finally managed to do it! I used a battery operated tea light and placed it under the couldron. I covered it in fondant so it wouldn't touch the cake and just took it out before slicing. The minion and couldron were made of rice krispie treats and covered in ganache. they weighed a ton! The fondant is homemade and came out really well, I think I'll make it again. Happy halloween everyone x :)

McMillan Coffee Morning

I donated this lovely cake and some cupcakes for Mcmillan Coffee Morning. It is all buttercream (Swiss meringue buttercream no less!!). I coloured the buttercream green to complement the McMillan colours, although it looks a bit blue in the photo. I didn't have time to take pictures of the cupcakes, which were decorated with green and white rose swirls. They raised £1000 (wow!) by selling cakes, cupcakes and having a raffle. Other people donated cupcakes as well. Loads of people went to so much effort to contribute!

Lace, Pearls and a Magnolia

I created a pink and white themed cake with lace, pearls and a Magnolia flower. I love the lace and the pearls and flower finish off the cake beautifully!!

Optimus Prime

I created the cake below for a four year old boy who had his birthday party last Saturday:

I created the main cake topper with royal icing. I started off with an image of Optimus Prime that I'd found on the internet that I thought would translate best into Royal Icing. I had already cut a 6"x6" square piece of fondant that had been drying for two days. 

At first I thought I should create a royal icing transfer, which is when you pipe royal icing on a suitable surface, then, once it has dried, transfer the image onto wherever you want it- cake, cupcake, cookie. I had placed the printed image inside a plastic jacket that I use for transfers. However, after piping a few lines, I thought the image might be too difficult to transfer all in one piece. I then decided to pipe directly onto the square piece of fondant. The only problem with this is that there is little room for error so I had to be quite precise. 

To do this, I placed the printed image on top of the fondant square, and used a clean and sterile pin to create pin pricks of the outline of the image. Took a while! When that was done, I was ready to create the outline in black by piping over all the pin prick outlines. I didn't think to take pictures of all this (I always forget!) but here is a photo of the outline of Optimus Prime in Royal Icing, next to the print out image. I think you can just about make out the pin pricks I'd made on the print out!

My decorating foam pad (only used for cakes) looks rather grubby in the photo due to cornstarch (just to be doubly sure the fondant doesn't stick to the foam) and spilt red royal icing!

Thanks for reading and happy caking, folks!