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Created this one for my son's birthday. It would be a loot llama if it wasn't filled with loot. Its partially hollow filled with lollies and sweets. See how it was made :
The cake I made for my daughter's 8th birthday. The clock shows the time that she was born :)
This sorting hat is about 2' tall. Three quarters Mudcake and 1/4 rice crispy. The bottles are hand made from sugar.
My niece's 1st birthday cake had to be something special. More detailed photos available on flickr [ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcfets/3555637915/ ]
My daughter's 4th birthday cake to take to kindergarten. From one of Debbie Brown's books.
Once again my daughter's birthday has turned into a birth-week celebration. This is the second cake I made for her 4th birthday. This one was for her fairy birthday party. The cake is a combination of mud cake, butter cake, chocolate crackles and fondant.
For my wife.
Mudcake with rolled fondant. This was for a carer from my daughter's kindy. More detailed photos at http://flickr.com/photos/mcfets/3116274619/in/set-72157600167047963/
Whenever I make a cake for someone (which isn't that often as it's only a hobby) I always make an extra special one for my daughter.
As a present to my niece I made her cake(s). I made the cake stand too. The top cake is fruit cake....yum... my mouth is watering just typing this.....The cupcakes are a simple but very tasty butter cake. The swirl icing is a Marshmallow icing from "Crabapple cupcake bakery cookbook" by Jennifer Graham. A lot of beating involved! All decorations are fondant with a very very small amount of tylose added. The butterfly cakes are covered in rolled fondant.
I made this for my wife to celebrate our 8th wedding anniversary.
Some more cup cakes for my wife's birthday. Marshmallow icing, fondant flower with royal icing dots.
Some pink cupcakes for my wife's birthday. I used marshmallow icing (not the marshmallow fondant).
I am planning on making quite a few of these for a permanent display. I will conceal the wires with brown florist tape. The sticks are real :-)
I wanted to do some piping practice on the side of a cake and this is the result. The floral arrangment was something I had created a while ago. I just threw it on top for the photo.
I wanted to have a cake for my daughter's birthday at her kindy. The carers said they would prefer no icing and a plain cake. So this is what I came up with. The mini cupcakes are butter cake topped with a small dollop of strained apricot jam and sprinkles. I couldn't resist some sort of decoration. The iced mud cake was for the staff.
A cake I made for my sister in-law.
My daughter's 2nd birthday cake. I graduated to 2 tiers but now looks a little plain to me. I enjoyed making all the little creatures and watching the kids play with them afterwards. The hermit crabs were my favourite :-)
...and piped leaves
This is a vanilla syrup soaked sponge cake (my wife's favourite). I could have chosen a better cake board :-)
My first attempts at making asiatic lillies.
I figured studying was over so I had time to make my own cake. For once I didn't feel guilty spending time on something other than my thesis :-) I transported this with each tier separately but when I put it together I managed to get some icing on the spine of the top tier. Other than that I was happy how it turned out.
A bit plain but this was my first fondant cake ever and its also where the cake decorating bug bit. The butterflies are made from royal icing and there were plenty rejects :-) I only wish I had covered the whole think in one piece of fondant.
Each year, since my daughter was born, I have been making her birthday cakes and they progressively get more complicated. I'm not sure what I will do for her 4th birthday yet. The trunk is mud cake and the green balls are fondant covered polystyrene balls. I used polystyrene balls to reduce the weight and no one needs that much cake!
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