Without being told, I could guess the age of this birthday boy! 10.
Patience is a virtue with little squares. And they take so much longer than you can expect.
I don't really know what all the pixelated items are but the axe is cute?
And what a wonderful Sunday it was! This year, I signed up for a class - how to make wafer paper flowers and watercolour cake. And even better, I did this with 4 other friends (so we took up just under half the class!).
Who would have thought that wafer paper and piping gel could be the bane of your existence? ;) A lot of patience is required.
Watercolours should probably be called vodka (or other spirit) colours - it is simply mixing gel colour with vodka to water it down and using a broad brush gently swiping the edges of the cake until you have the colour and effect you are trying to achieve. As you can see from the class, no cake is the same so it's easy to put your own signature on it!
And this was my creation after 4 hours... sunset colours!
And a delivery to the wild wild west!
Baby booties, building blocks and a little cute bear.
Last one for the quarter I'm afraid. Miss 9-5 is turning into 9-midnight... Until July!
I think of it as the Mexican version of Halloween or All Hallow's Eve. Or some people think of the cartoon or some similar children's show. No matter, it is the day that Mexican's celebrate those who have passed away.
Amazingly, it is not at all "scary" but more about colours, flowers and things to celebrate their loved ones.
A very important customer of mine recently asked for a cake for his daughter's 18th birthday in the theme of the day of the dead. It was an interesting challenge and I couldn't be happier with the way the cake (with one whole tier being VEGAN) turned out!
I've never done a black tier before so I was really happy that it wasn't anything majorly different to a white or ivory tier (well duh, it is just coloured fondant right?). And the skull.. it's pretty much freestyle.
The brief was almond sponge. Some days I am good at following instructions. Other days, I like to do things my own way (which is a skewed way of following said instruction). This is a cake where we sort of met halfway.
I took the basic Japonaise cake - layers of almond meringue sandwiches between rich coffee buttercream and added two super moist layers of almond sponge cake. The result?
This amazingly tall, straight, delicious looking simplistic cake that was SO good. More than one person had a second slice.
I'm going to have to make this one again. Yeah, it's a bit time consuming (it would be a lot quicker if I had 6 racks in my oven!) but the result is just so worth it.
And the symmetry on the inside... perfection. *cries*
I have to give a 10/10 to the cake cutter. The precision, effort and patience truly deserves an award.
Beware: this is a rich cake. A cup of black tea or coffee would be perfect with a small slice of cake for tea.
I can count the number of times I've been invited to a baby showers with the fingers on my right (or left) hand!
I made some mini cupcakes with baby themed marshmallow fondant and a super cute (almost Disney's Belle-esque) tummy cake for mummy! I personally find it a little weird to 'cut' a tummy cake but at the same time it is so delightfully cute. I mean, it is the mother who bears the child from almost 10 months isn't it? So why can't we also honour her as well as bubba!
And you can pretty much design the "dress" however you please. I just did some really easy pleats with ribbon of fondant, finished with a little flower.
I've seen buttercream roses, elaborate lace designs, sequins, pearls, etc. I guess this is where it's easy to design the cake to suit the mum-to-be.
