Monster Cupcakes

Wanted to post some cupcakes to my nephew and had a lot of scraps of fondant of all sorts of colours leftover from other cakes so used the Planet Cake Cupcakes book to inspire some fun cakes.

Cookie Monster

So easy to do, and fun!!!

Sunflower Cupcake

Taken from the book, Hello Cupcake. I love this design, so simple, just an Oreo, and no piping nozzle needed either, just a ziplock bag cut at the bottom!

Baby Girl Cupcakes

Using the Planet Cake book I made these vanilla cupcakes to post to a friend of mine following the birth of her lovely baby girl. Luckily they almost made it one piece, only one bow came off in transit.

Baby Boy Cupcakes

Taken from the book "Planet Cake", a gift posted to a friend to welcome her new addition to the world.

Peppa Pig

For my friend's daughter's birthday. Madiera sponge with Lemon Curd filling. Had fun making this one.

Green Flower Birthday Cake

For the brief I was told, she likes green, nothing fancy and she likes marzipan. So it's a 6.5" choc cake filled with choc buttercream covered in marzipan and fondant. I can't claim the design as my own however, I was inspired by 7thheaven .

Peppa

Knitting Cake

My car's knackered and my cousin's boyf is a mechanic, it just so happens it's his mum's birthday this week so he's fixing my car while I made a cake. I'd say that's a fair deal. I was told his mum liked knitting so decorated a 6" choc mud cake with fondant accents to make this cake, and after handrolling all the wool...I'm buying a clay gun!!! This was very last minute, totally stressed me out. I was lucky I had a cake in the freezer. Sorry for the rubbish photo, taken on my phone, I forgot my camera. TFLx

Funky Sweet Sixteen

My 8th fondant cake. 8" chocolate mud cake. So the birthday girl asked for a funky cake in bright colours (pink, blue and purple were specified) and she likes daisies, this is what I came up with. The bow is sprayed with pearl lustre dust and there is edible disco glitter on the pink fondant. Bow is fixed in place with candy melts. I hadn't dried the loops to the bow long enough so the top one broke, twice! luckily I'd made 4 spares. The stripes were a nightmare to do but they covered up where the white fondant stretched underneath that I was too tired to fix. TFL!

Sweet Sixteen

For a friend's 16th birthday I made her a giant cupcake by using 2x6" round pans and half of the wilton sports ball pan. It was a chocolate mudcake covered in ganache before finishing with fondant and gumpaste embellishments. There are 16 cupcakes to accompany it, in a variety of sizes, standard, baking cup size and mini, the 4 mini cupcakes at the front do not have a case, but have ganache around them instead (I didn't have any brown mini cases). The bow is made following the planet cake video on youtube. And that's about it, TFL!

Teapot Cake

For my great aunt's birthday I made a teapot cake using the wilton sports ball pan. Had to use a LOT of cake batter (ie, a 6 egg pound cake). Covered in fondant and sprayed with lustre dust. The easiest fondant cake I've done so far, this is my 6th. Design inspired by brownidgrl65.

Mini Cooper

I helped a friend make a mini cooper car for her dad's birthday. Made from Planet Cake's mudcake recipe, ganache then fondant. Used a 6 inch square tin that's about 4 inches deep and cut to fit the shape I wanted. Not perfect but not bad considering it was my first carved cake and only the 5th fondant cake I've ever done. I want to do another one already!

Tool Box Cake

For a friend's 60th birthday my dad comissioned me to make a cake. As the guy in question is a builder by trade I immediately decided to do a tool box cake, it was a lot of fun to do. It's my 4th fondant cake so far, and I'm falling more and more in love with caking!!!! It's a shame I didn't take pics of the pliers or monkey wrench, they were pretty realistic (IMHO). But the birthday boy's son is a photographer so he sent me some nice pics. Enjoy! njoycakes x

Zebra And Pink Topsy Turvy Cake

This was the first cake I ever decorated and it's the first stacked cake I've ever done, not to mention the first topsy turvy I ever attempted. It was for my own birthday so I just went to town with the decorations. It's a vanilla sponge layered with buttercream covered in fondant. I learnt a lot of stuff whilst doing this cake, mostly that I love cake decorating!!! :)