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!

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!