Ah... such a shame about the wet weather over Easter this year. It's been really unfortunate that the last 8 or 9 Easters in the last 10 years have been wet. I'm sure many events are a washout but cake always brightens the day.

This was a special order Extra Large White Chocolate, Coconut and Raspberry Cake. Delivered in the pouring rain but hopefully there will be enough respite sometime this weekend to enjoy it with special people.

We'll miss you!

I'm not quite at that age where I have been to very many baby shower parties. I can count how many I've been to on one thumb ;)

So it was a pleasant surprise when I was approached to make a cake for a baby shower and not a birthday! Whoop!

They wanted a rocking horse (it looks more like a horse on skiis as it was really humid this week). The horse itself is sooo cute don't you think? One of the friends of the mum-to-be was organizing the cake and picked soft yellow and blue. Classic baby colours with spots. Loving simple.

This cake was a triple layer of raspberry and white chocolate cake with homemade raspberry jam and white chocolate ganache. Delish.

If you have a teenage or young adult male living in your household or even within your circle of connections, then more than likely you would have heard of the game League of Legends that seems to take over the internet world and zap smart kiddies into playing online for endless hours forgetting pretty much all else - sometimes including the basic necessities such as eating and sleeping.

So I was a little surprised that Leonard (who is my godbrother per say) actually approached me to make his cake in advance. Well, all he said was "I want a massive cake". Yup, thanks for the details! At first, I was going to go a basketball cake... maybe with a jersey and a 3D basketball sitting on the top. Then I thought, well, I did the soccer ball cake a couple of months back, let's take it up a notch.

I spent a few hours on the web browsing. There wasn't much available. Oh-oh... I was on my own. There are hundreds of LoL characters (called "champions") in the game. As you can imagine, I would have picked the easier ones. :P I like to save time! And already this was taking lots and lots of my time!

I knew he was having a big party. Teens these days seem to have a lot of friends.

So as usual, I tried to be prepared and used the Sunday before the cake to do all the figurines. Estimated time: 6 hours.

I came to realise awhile back that I like to make cakes for the outcome. Sure, all the steps along the way matter (duh) and sometimes those steps are therapeutic (especially after a busy day doing the 9-5) but my favourite part is sticking the figurines on and watching the cake come to life. More detail, more wow.

I didn't have so much fun today rolling the fondant. I'm not a huge fan of fondant and the smell of the sugar today made me a little queasy... :S I couldn't wait to wash my hands and be rid of the smell. Too bad the most fun bit takes the least amount of time! I thought it was quite clever to use dessicated coconut for a grassy effect (that means I don't have to whip up green buttercream! Score!!) and make basic icing in green to spread along the cake so everything would stick. Made the perfect amount of figures, trees, flowers and mushrooms. Very happy and very proud. :)

Rustic is the new expensive and posh. 

But to actually try to make something look rustic and "as is" is actually a lot harder than you think! 

The frosting was so yummy (so the feedback came back!). White chocolate, coconut and raspberry. Lots of people came back for second servings! ;) Yay!