zespri's Cake Central Gallery

zespri's Cake Central Gallery

Piggy Pops

Piggy Pops

Piggy Pops! My first attempt at cakepops, I loved making these :) I used the bakepops pan for the balls, dipped in regular eating chocolate with a little bit of Kremelta shortening mixed in to thin it. The Wilton candy melts are difficult/expensive to buy here, real chocolate is cheaper/easier to get. The snouts etc are made from a mixture of modelling chocolate and fondant. I struggled a bit with the chocolate, how do you get a nice finish at the end? I dipped, swirled, and tapped. But the excess was still running off when the chocolate started to set, so at the back of some of them it's not as nice and smooth as it should be. Maybe I need thinner chocolate....? Any tips on getting a perfect finish greatly appreciated!

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Puppy Pops

Puppy Pops

They're puppy pops, what more can I say?! Same as my piggy pops, dipped in regular eating chocolate, fondant/modelling chocolate for the ears/muzzle etc.

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Quad Bike On The Beach

Quad Bike On The Beach

One of my Dad's favourite hobbies is riding his Quad Bike on the beach with the dog in the front.

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Broken Eggshell Cupcakes

Broken Eggshell Cupcakes

Easter cupcakes for hubby's niece and nephew, since I realised last night with horror that I didn't have any easter eggs for them.. oops! I only just got back from a trip yesterday, so wasn't organised. I hope they're suitably grossed out by them :-P

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Wee Groomsman

Wee Groomsman

My lovely friend NIki took pity on my people modelling skills and showed me how she does her basic groomsmen. I learned so much form her showing me this, and it was so fun to do it with someone else. I said to her I probably wasn't going to put it up here on CC, but I keep looking at him and realised he's so darn cute and I'm proud of him, so here he is. Thanks Niki, I can't wait to try making another figurine!

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Cupcake Bouquet

Cupcake Bouquet

A last minute bouquet for my Aunt's birthday. The pink icing is cherry flavoured, the rest is plain vanilla.

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Marbled Chocolate Man-Cake

Marbled Chocolate Man-Cake

Chocolate fudge cake, covered in white/milk ganache. I have been wanting to try chocolate marbling for a while, so a man-cake seemed to be a good one to experiment on. My first try with couverture chocolate too, it's WAY nicer than compound, I'm hooked!

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Plum Cuppies

Plum Cuppies

Vanilla buttermilk cuppies with italian meringue buttercream, flavoured with dried black doris plum powder. Just standard cupcakes, but I have new cupcake papers from the U.K., plus a cupcake stand I was dying to use in a photograph. Hence the matching fondant flower :)

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Valentines Cookies

Valentines Cookies

I saw this gorgeous design on 'Glorious Treats' and thought they'd be the perfect design for my first attempt at cookies. I loved it! Can't wait to make more cookies, and learn more about decorating them.

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Snowman Christmas Cake

Snowman Christmas Cake

#4 charity cake, the last one! I'm rather fond of this little guy :) Baked him in three bowls, two tiny little ones for the head, one larger one for the body. He's still only about 4" though, he's sitting on a board the same size as the three 4" square cakes. The arms are made out of some sweets called spaceman sticks we had as kids, they used to look like cigarettes back then though!

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Purple Christmas Themed Cake

Purple Christmas Themed Cake

#3 charity cake! Like the others, only a wee one, four inches. The purple was more of a Cadbury coloured purple when mixed. It's lost a bit of it's purple colour since then, hope it doesn't turn grey!

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Snowman Christmas Cake

Snowman Christmas Cake

The second of my charity Christmas cakes. Another 4" fruitcake :)

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Striped Christmas Tree Cake

Striped Christmas Tree Cake

I saw this design from Tortentante last Christmas and fell in love with it. (Thank you Tortentante for the tutorial on your blog!) This 4" cake is for charity, the first of four. Wow, square cakes are fiddly, especially with no buttercream underneath! I had to use almond sugarpaste as it turns out marzipan is pretty hard to come by here in NZ, interesting. Hopefully I'll have time to try making my own soon.

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Tres Leche Mini's

Tres Leche Mini's

Tres Leche cakes cut into 2x2" squares, then put into silver foils I'd shaped into squares with square muffin tins. Smeared with a layer of caramel, then topped with Chantilly cream and strawberry. Delicious!

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Eos Slr Camera Cupcakes

Eos Slr Camera Cupcakes

Made as a thank-you for someone who works with cameras, so made some tinky tiny little SLR camera toppers out of chocolate fondant. Plum IMBC on vanilla cupcakes.

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'piece Of Cake' Cake

'piece Of Cake' Cake

Our Niece Rosie turned 13 today, so I tried to make her a cake that was not too childish, but not too grown-up. On the right hand on the board is her name, and a little pie, same as last year ('cos her nickname is Rosie-Pie). On the left there are 13 little roses holding the wee candles. I'm not 100% certain on this, but I think the slice design is originally from Planet Cake, though I used lilo_taart's fabulous design.

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Gumpaste Rose

Gumpaste Rose

My first successful gumpaste rose! With help/advice from Leslea (thanks Leslea!), watched Fran's video about half a dozen times, and Edna De la Cruz as well (her DVD is great). I've got a way to go yet, but I'm pleased with this one to start with :)

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Sassy Orange Rose

Sassy Orange Rose

Sassy orange and mango cake from Warren Brown's Cake Love. Covered in orange flavoured IMBC. Just wanted something simple to give as a thank you gift.

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Banana Pecan Cake With Mocha Frosting & Candied Peanuts

Banana Pecan Cake With Mocha Frosting & Candied Peanuts

David Lebovitz's recipe. I've heard good things about it... can't wait to taste it tomorrow! Banana Pecan cake with mocha frosting, and candied peanuts on top.

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Sweet & Simple

Sweet & Simple

My friend is making her own wedding cupcakes, but wanted a 'cutting cake' for the ceremony. She choose the recipe, it's white chocolate mud, with white chocolate buttercream, and white chocolate fondant. I also made her a four inch 'mini me' version to pop in her freezer for their first anniversary (2nd pic). Her colours are black and silver, so she chose to keep the cake drum uncovered. Design from the talented Vanessa Iti.

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You Put The Lime In The Coconut...

You Put The Lime In The Coconut...

Lime cuppies, filled with lime curd, topped with coconut flavoured cream cheese icing, and sprinkled with green coconut. What's that weird looking flower on it you ask? Oh, that's the Ear flower, native to these parts. Specifically to my kitchen actually. My hubby wanted ear toppers.... he's an odd one at times! I had to make a mold for them myself as I could't buy one.

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Peach Cakes

Peach Cakes

These are a take on the italian brioche 'Pesche dolci di pasta brioche' , imagenthatnj put me onto them, and I fell in love at first sight. Bigredkitchen made them in cake, so I wanted to give it a go as well, as I had been wanting to try sky high's peach melba cake, and it seemed like a good recipe to try it with. These little cakes are supposed to look like peaches, but they're not as convincing as I'd hoped they would be! I foolishly chose a very soft cake (a cream cake), and it was SO difficult to work with, I coudn't get the icing to behave without ripping the cake. And every time I picked one up I seemed to break it. There were supposed to be six! Oh well, maybe I'll do better next time :)

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Pina Colada Cuppies

Pina Colada Cuppies

Brown Sugar cuppies, filled with home-made pineapple/lime/vanilla jam. Topped with coconut Italian Meringue Buttercream, sprinkled with coconut and topped with a fondant flower.

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Brush Embroidery

Brush Embroidery

My first attempt at brush embroidery, loved it :)

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Moose The Ikea Puppet

Moose The Ikea Puppet

My two year old's favourite toy is a Moose puppet we bought at Ikea in Brisbane. So for his family birthday party, I made a replica. As you can see, the real Moose was pretty impressed with it. Though when the knife went in, my son wasn't that impressed!

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Safari Cake

Safari Cake

For my son's 2nd birthday, to take to his creche. As soon as I saw this design (from The Whimsical Bakehouse) I loved it. The animals are all made of piped chocolate. The cake is covered in buttercream. I made forty animals, so every child at creche could have one each... took ages! But I loved doing it, and chocolate is so much fun to work with.

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