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Thursday 12 June 2014
Wednesday 11 June 2014
New Logo
We are very proud to show our new logo, which was created by ABDesign Stationery.
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Saturday 7 June 2014
Les Miserables Cake
This was a Les Miserables surprise cake made for my dad for his 43rd birthday. To see more of our work, please like our Facebook page, (Newton's Cakes) via this link or the link at the side .
The figures were very time consuming and from took three weeks to make. The planks of wood were all made from fondant, which we mixed with Tylo powder and left in a cake box to set hard. We then used two 10" square cakes to make the main cake, before sticking the planks and painting red food colouring on the planks. The flags at the back were cut out of paper. I did look at real flags, however it would be hard to make them stand and they were also too large.
The main two figures, were the Thenardiers. I started by making Monsieur Thenardier as it was the easiest character, due to the distinctive colour of his beard and his costume, which is easily recognised. My mam and dad had seen the show in London and told me that the characters came through a trap door throughout the show. I then decided to cut a square out of the board and place black icing in it's place, to make a trap door.
The hardest figures to make were Javert and Jean Val jean. I originally wanted to make Javert with a black coat, however decided that the model would look best in the blue uniform. I made the main body and head, added the facial features and added the hair. I then covered the neck in black, before covering the body in blue fondant and cutting a piece to fit over the top of the blue jacket.
Jean Valjean's costume was quite easy to make. However the hair was not the best as I made it quite thick. If I made this figure again, I would roll the fondant very thin and cut out thin strips, building the hair in layers.
My original idea was to make all of the cast, making Cosette and the other characters when they were older. Despite my plans, I only realised how time consuming the figures were the day before my dads birthday. I then decided to save time I would focus on improving the characters I had and making Cosette as a child. I then covered the cake, added the planks and assembled the characters onto the cake.I then added the flags and the logo and the cake came together.
Friday 6 June 2014
Turkish Delight Cake
This was a Turkish Delight cake made for a 90th birthday. To see more of our work, please like our Facebook page, (Newton's Cakes) via this link or the link at the side.
To make the Turkish delight cake we made a 12" x 9" cake. We then cut one corner of the cake, using a circle cutter, to take out a section of the cake. We bought Turkish Delight bars and cut the chocolate off them, before sticking them onto the side of the cake. After covering the cake in fondant, we cut away the corner, revealing the Turkish Delight inside and stuck on the logo, which we printed from the edible printer.
Saturday 1 February 2014
Elmo Cake Tutorial
This was an Elmo cake we made for a 2nd birthday. Even though it is quite an easy cake, piping the red fur is very time consuming. You can also make Elmo cupcakes and other Sesame Street Cupcakes in the same way. To see how please visit Sesame Street Cupcakes.
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Friday 17 January 2014
Mickey Mouse Cake
This cake was made from a 10" round cake. To start decorating we covered the cake in white fondant and then used the airbrush to spray the cake apricot.
Hulk Cake
This was another cake was quite easy to make. The most time consuming part of this cake was making the face. we started off with a green block of icing. We then made the mouth and teeth out of black and white icing. Once we had the mouth stuck, we carved the rest of the face and added the eyes. We then cut out black strips for the hair and made the hands out of green icing.
When covering the cake we cut out an 8" circle black circle and then covered the cake in green icing. This meant that when we pulled back the green icing, the butter cream would not show. We then added the face and hands, before piping the name and age on. We then put a black ribbon around the cake and the cake was finished.
Thursday 16 January 2014
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Monday 13 January 2014
Pigs in Mud Cake
The Pigs in Mud cake was first made for my mam and dads anniversary. However, this cake was made for a 3rd birthday. It was a chocolate cake, that was filled with butter cream and covered with chocolate ganache. I then put chocolate fingers around the outside of the cake. I then made the pigs out of white icing (which was mixed with a very small amount of Sugaflair Paprika / flesh colour). To make the heads I rolled a ball, squashed a small amount of icing and made small ovals for the ears. I stuck all of the pieces together with water and drawn two black dots for eyes. For the bottoms,, I rolled out balls and then I rolled out icing between my fingers and wrapped it around a pin tool. I then took it off the pin tool and stuck to the icing ball with water. I finally drawn a line with the pin tool and then I pushed the parts into the chocolate ganache, which had not completely set at the time. I finally rolled out some white fondant and cut out the name.
Sunday 12 January 2014
Minecraft Cake
It's fair to say that the Minecraft cake was quite a challenge, due to the size of the cake. We started by covering the board in green fondant and once the cakes were stacked, we butter creamed the cakes and covered each of the sides in white fondant. We then split green and brown fondant and added white to each of the parts, to make them different shades of the colour. Once we had coloured the icing we rolled each colour out and cut out individual squares using a square cutter before sticking them to the cake with water. Although this cake was very time consuming we were very happy when the cake was finished and so was the customer.
Teacher's Cupcakes
These cupcakes are a great idea to make towards the end of term for teacher presents.
The toppers are quick to make and are quite straight forward.
The toppers are quick to make and are quite straight forward.
These cupcakes were very popular and all of the customers were very happy.
The easiest cupcake toppers to make were the apples, which were simply a red ball, which was rolled from red fondant and then a small green fondant leaf.
The next cupcake topper was the book. To do this I cut a rectangle out of thick white fondant. I then measured the width and rolled out some blue fondant. After cutting out the blue fondant in strips I covered the white and cut out small white rectangles to stick on the front of the books. The good thing about these toppers is that they can be done in different colours, although they are more time consuming than the other toppers.
To make the toppers different without making too many different toppers we decided to put the book and apple on the same cupcake, just to make the cupcakes look different. However if you have a lot of orders, I would recommend making one topper per cupcake.
If the order is for college or university students, a good alternative is to make a cap and scroll. To make the cap I just rolled some black fondant and squashed it down into a circle. I then cut out black squares and stuck them to the round black fondant with water. (Note: the black squares will need to take a while to set so if you have a large order, I would make them in advance). For the scrolls i rolled white fondant and then cut out small pieces of red, which I stuck to the white with water.
We then tried different colours and we also made some black boards by cutting out black and brown rectangles and sticking some white letters to them with water.
Mario Kart Cake
This cake was another easy cake. Although it was quite time consuming making the figure and decorations around the cake, when the cake was put together it was definitely worth it and the customer was very happy. The car was made out of rice crispy bars and then covered in fondant. We then made the figure out of icing and stuck it to the car using a bit of water. After covering the board in blue, we covered the cake in white fondant and added black squares. We then put the cake together, added the ribbon and finished making the ice cream cupcakes to go with the cake.
Cake Pops
These were cake pops that we made using a cake pop machine. You can break up a cake mixture and add butter cream before rolling into balls but using the cake pop maker means you just spoon cake mix into the holes and leave them to bake. Once baked we butter creamed them and then covered them in fondant.
These cake pops were made to go with a second birthday cake.
The cake pops below were made for a Children in Need. We also made some cupcakes and then donated them to be sold. All of the money raised went to Children in Need.
Chocolate & Vanilla Strawberry Cake
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Saturday 11 January 2014
Take That Cake Tutorial
If anyone is going to try and make this cake or one similar, I would recommend giving yourself plenty of time to do so. The figures took me over a week to make and they were quite rushed.
This was not the first time we had made a Take That cake. In November 2011, we were asked to make a Take That cake. This was when the business was just starting to take off and at the time this cake was made, everyone thought it was great.
However, this was a good opportunity to see much our skills had developed in the past two years. I therefore took a lot more time planning this cake and I even created a small booklet, which included sketches and pictures to help me when creating the figures and putting the cake together. This was the original sketch for the two tier cake.
I then also wanted to spend more time on the figures to make sure that they were quite realistic. To do this I printed off pictures and made annotations and small sketches that I could refer to whilst making the figures.
Once I had these notes I started making the figures, starting with Gary Barlow.
Making the figures was quite easy, however it was very time consuming. To make the figures i simply rolled some grey fondant (white fondant for the other figures) and then placed a ball of fondant on top. To make the ball for the head I took some white fondant
nt and then dipped a cocktail stick into the Sugaflair Paprika colour. I only put a small amount in as this made the colour light.
I then used the pointed edge of a tool to mark out the eyes, nose and mouth, before adding white to the eyes and then adding the hair. To add the hair, I rolled black fondant into thin strips before cutting them down and adding them to the head, building them up in layers.
Once all of the figures had been made and all of the features had been added. I then started adding detail. I ordered a black pen and a caramel brown coloured pen so that I could start adding the eyebrows, facial hair and even highlights in the hair.
Once the figures were finished I took the dummy cake and rolled out a black fondant 7" circle. I then covered the board in black fondant and then covered the dummy cake. I then pulled back the fondant and added the figures. I added some stars and cut out Take That which I stuck to the cake using water.
Even though the cake was not for a client, it received a great response and although it was a dummy cake we were very happy with the finished product.
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