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8" rich fruit cake. A surprise cake for the customer's birthday. They love to go on cruises (hence the theme of the cake). Her name is Yvonne (hence the name on the ship) but her calls her Eve (hence the inscription!) Bit of a masculine-looking cake, in my opinion. I hope they like it (due to collect any minute!) You've no idea how teeny-weeny the black squares for the windows are (which is why it was so hard to line them up properly.... and as a perfectionist, IT'S KILLING ME, LOL!!)
The request from the customer was for "pretty, pink, high-heeled shoes, like you get in dressing up sets" and also some ballet shoes - because her daughter loves both! She also asked for a little label at the back of the cake, because her daughter goes to sleep each night rubbing a silky label (like, on a t-shirt or something like that) against her cheek! Cute!!
Vanilla cookies with hand-piped royal icing paw prints on a sugarpaste disc. The birthday girl works at Battersea Dogs' Home.
Flat-bottomed ice cream cones, into which the cake batter was spooned and then baked!! Topped with a swirl of vanilla buttercream and decorated with sprinkles and a chocolate wafer straw!
Bride and groom cookies, decorated with sugarpaste (fondant). Many thanks to the creators of all the lovely examples here on CC which gave me ideas for these!
Vanilla butter biscuits covered with sugarpaste. Pattern made with an embossing mat that came with the cutter.
12", 10" and 8" cakes. Middle tier is chocolate sponge with choc buttercream; the other two are vanilla sponge with jam and buttercream. All covered with marzipan and sugarpaste. Dots piped with royal icing. Not particularly happy with this - the top tier is too big. It looks a bit 'squat'... like it's missing a smaller top tier or something??
4 tiers (2nd tier is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, the others are vanilla sponge with jam and buttercream). All covered with marzipan and sugarpaste, then covered with individually cut 'feathers' of rice paper. Sprayed with PME pearl lustre spray. I HAVE to thank the incredible Gaynor from www.cakesunlimited.net for so much advice when making this cake!!!
9" square. 10" board behind, covered with sugarpaste and then attached to covered with with royal icing.
Customer saw these - originally by Hello_Naomi on Flikr - and asked me to recreate them. Not as good as the originals, but overall I'm happy with them. Vanilla sponge cupcakes filled with vanilla buttercream and topped with sugarpaste decorations.
20 vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream swirls; 20 choc cupcakes with choc buttercream filling and topped with a sugarpaste (fondant) disc and all 40 topped with musical notes (which I did with a Patchwork Cutter). These are for a Bat Mitzvah party... tonight is a disco for her school friends - I also posted a 2 tier cake in similar colours and decorations, for a luncheon yesterday for family and close friends.
10" choc sponge torted and filled with chocolate buttercream and 7" vanilla sponge torted and filled with seedless raspberry jam and vanilla buttercream. Not entirely happy with this... I'd hoped for a more noticeable difference in colour between the two tiers :o( The inscription was done by tracing over a print out of the words "mazel tov" in Hebrew onto the cake so it left an imprint. Then, I piped over it with royal icing in a no.1 tube, then filled it with some let-down royal icing.
For my aunt's 70th birthday party. Black foil cases = lemon sponge with lemon curd buttercream (don't like it tooo sweet, so added lemon zest and juice for a bit of oomph!); pink foil cases = carrot cake with cream cheese frosting; silver foil cases = chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream. Topped with sugarpaste disc and gumpaste handbag which I made with a Patchwork Cutter. Had a bit of bother with some of the cupcake cases peeling away from the cakes! :o(
A total of 50 princess cupcakes accompanied the Sleeping Beauty Barbie cake. Vanilla cupcakes filled with vanilla buttercream and topped with a disc of sugarpaste and an edible image.
12" x 10" rich fruit cake. Lid is card covered with sugarpaste/patillage mix. Ribbons are hiding wooden dowels supporting the lid. Cigars are Rice Krispie Treats covered with strips of chocolate paste. Many thanks to the many, many fabulous cigar box cakes here on CC which gave me ideas and inspiration for this cake - for a dear family friend who turns 80 this weekend and LOVES a nice cigar!
I made these figures at a workshop with the lovely Debbie Brown. I had a brilliant day!
I did this figure - made entirely from sugar (modelling paste) - at a workshop with the brilliant and very lovely Lorraine McKay (Aine2). I had a FABULOUS day!
My sons' favourite teacher is leaving. They'll miss her a lot and asked if we could make her a chocolate cake as a leaving present!! Well, I couldn't leave it undecorated, so looked here on CC for some inspiration... lots of lovely cakes for ideas! :o) Choc cake with vanilla caramel flavour buttercream filling. Covered with sugarpaste with sugarpaste details.
Customer wanted 50 cupcake cookies for her daughter's 18th birthday (as well as a Louis Vuitton handbag cake). The colour scheme was purple, silver and white.
10" square cake (vanilla sponge with seedless raspberry jam and vanilla buttercream fillings) covered with sugarpaste. The cake board needed to be an 18" square because of the way the cake was angled on it!! The rosary was made with hand-rolled balls made from modelling paste, dusted with lustre dust and gold dragees for the chain. Crucifix made with modelling paste, using a mould.
12" square fruit cake, marzipanned and covered in sugarpaste. Did you know a scrabble board is 15 squares x 15 squares? That's 225 squares to cut by hand!!!!!!!!! Squares were done in modelling paste. The tiles were done with pastillage. All details hand-written using a food colouring pen. Have to admit, I'm really pleased with how this came out. I would do it again, but I wouldn't try it on a smaller cake!!!!!
4", 6" and 8" cake dummies. Unfortunately, these are fabric flowers... but orchids are next on my list of sugar flowers to try and make!
Made from a 6" square and 5" round. Vanilla sponge with jam and buttercream filling, covered with marzipan and sugarpaste.
Vanilla cupcakes with two tone buttercream swirls (choc buttercream and vanilla buttercream). First time at trying this!
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