Monster Cupcakes - Furry

Furry Monster Cupcakes for the Cake Stall at our school gala. Vanilla cupcakes with a crusting buttercream (with a tablespoon of meringue powder mixed in for peace of mind!). I use mostly butter in my buttercream with just a little melted Copha or Kremelta (we don't get Chrisco here much) cos I don't like the mouth-feel/taste of too much shortening. Grass tip 233 for the fur. Homemade cupcake holder/insert (idea from Real Simple magazine).

Black And White Harlequin Mask Cake

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Batman And Bat Light Cake

Made this for my son's 6th birthday. First up, big thanks go to "klpint" for the awesome cake I modelled this off. Very cool idea! Cake I used was 'Q's favourite Chocolate Cake' recipe off cakecentral. Really moist and yummy, but had to get it out of the freezer for a day to defrost before icing so it wasn't too moist! Got heaps of compliments on the cake so thanks to mjnj for recipe. Used buttercream under fondant and dried fondant for the buildings and batlight oval. Glued everything on with royal icing. Used royal for the writing too. I wrote the name on baking paper over a computer printout. Not sure I'd do that again unless I was sticking it to the cake itself. It was difficult to stick the little bits to the covered cake board but it would work quite well onto icing. This one was dairy-free top to bottom! Batman did overpower the cake a bit but my son wanted the big batman and he helped me place him. Son was pleased as punch, so that's what matters:) He even stood there watching me make it and said "I'm just watching you so I know how to do it when I'm grown up"!

Fairytale Castle Cake

Made this for my little girl's fourth birthday. Firstly, many many thanks to member "Louise" for the gorgeouse cake that she did. It was the perfect model cake - love it! Mine was done in chocolate cake using the 'Q's favourite chocolate cake' recipe found on cakecentral. Really moist and yummy, but had to get it out of the freezer for a day to defrost before icing so it wasn't too moist! Heaps of compliments on the cake so thankyou to 'mjnj' for recipe. Buttercream under fondant with royal icing accents. flowers were made with wilton leaf tip and dusted with lusterdust. Leaves were done with the same tip. First time using it so leaves were better than flowers cos I had had some practice and had softer consistency royal icing! Used grass tip for grass and wrote name on baking paper over a computer printout. Not sure I'd do that again unless I was sticking it to the cake itself. It was difficult to stick the little bits to the covered cake board but it would work quite well onto icing. Was going to do cupcake towers for the corner towers but they came out too wobbly so I just covered some paper towel rolls with fondant in the end. Didn't have time to let the icing dry and remove them so they just stayed in!

Minnie And Mickey Mouse Mini Cupcakes

I made these for my daughter's 4th birthday at her daycare. Chocolate cupcakes with raspberry flavoured pink and red buttercream icing. Dark chocolate button ears and pink fondant bows with icing dots. Mickey ones were dairy-free with black fondant ears. Modelled these mostly on 'Picture Perfect Cakes' flickr photos, so thanks!

Firetruck

Son's birthday cake. Pic was taken before final touch ups - hence all the excess icing sugar! Tag teamed for this one with my hubby. Another late-night job.

Kitten On Ball Of Wool

This was one of my early attempts for my daughter's 2nd birthday. Kitten cake a la Debbie Brown.

Gingerbread Village

Made this for a bring and share Christmas party at my kids' daycare. Sprinkled the lot with icing sugar for snowy effect. Tree is an icecream cone decorated with royal icing and a lollipop star. Had the devil's own time stopping my son from wanting to drive his toy cars around the village!

Crown On Pillow

Made this for my daughter's birthday. Fondant covered pillow cake and royal icing crown following tutorials on cakecentral. Made a spare crown just in case! Lusterdust for a bit of sparkle.

Batmobile

This was made for my son's birthday. Thank you so much to 'socake' on cakecentral for putting up the fantastic cake photo that I modeled this one off. Yours is awesome! I froze the banana cake before cutting shapes. What a job! Lusterdust on grey fondant to make the silvery bits. Lots of fun though, and he loved it. It was so late by time I finished it I only had enought energy to stick on his plastic toy Batman and Robin, rather than make the ones I had hoped to from fondant. I'll start earlier next time (I ALWAYS say that!).

Spiderman Cake

This was for my son's birthday at daycare. Made spiderman a week ahead so he cracked a little! Cake was banana with buttercream icing and buttercream web.

Fairy Cake

This was my daugheter's birthday cake for at her daycare. It was a hummingbird cake covered in buttercream (actually the whole thing was all done dairy-free with olive-oil margarine spread!). Wilton grass/fur tip for grass, fondant stamper for flowers and I made the fairy from fondant too after seeing a really cool one on Cakecentral (I think) - sorry I can't remember who to give credit to! Brown, curly hair like my girl. Luster dust for sparkle.

Bears Christening Cake

This is the cake I made when our children were christened. Bears are fondant made in a rush the night before!

Gingerbread House With Lolly Windows