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.
Friday, 17 January 2014
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.
Foster's Can Cake Tutorial
We started by baking two 12"x 8" cakes. Once they had been left to cool, we stacked them and carved them into the shape of the can. Once we had the basic shape of the can, we then carved the top and bottom curve at an angle to create a more realistic shape.
We then covered the cake with butter cream and then started rolling out the blue fondant and preparing the rest of the letters we needed for the cake.
To make the letters for the can, we cut out the side of a box and scanned it through the printer. We then printed the letters using the edible printer, which printed the letters onto edible wafer paper.
(NOTE: If you do not have an edible printer, another method you could use is to pin the letters on to the cake and then pipe on to the cake following the lines. We did another one of these cakes before we bought the edible printer and piped the letters on. Even though the edible printer was easier and quicker, the piping still worked just as well and the customer was very happy.)
Once we had the letters prepared and we had rolled out the fondant, we covered the cake. We then smoothed the edges and sides before starting to decorate.
The first bit of decoration was the silver tin parts of the can (the top and bottom of the can). To make these parts, we rolled out light grey fondant, which was white fondant mixed with a small amount of black and then cut around a plate. We then cut the circle in half and stuck the semi-circle to the side of the cake using water. We then cut off the excess fondant and straightened the edges.
We then took our printed parts, that we had prepared earlier and stuck them to the cake. This time we used white piping icing to stick the wafer paper to the fondant. This is because water will soak through the wafer paper and the colour will run. Alternatively, you could buy fondant icing sheets instead of wafer paper.
The final part was making the pull ring for the can. We made this by creating a thin rectangle and cutting out a circle and a square. Once we had done this we cut the rectangle in half and stuck one half to the top of the cake using water.
We then added a message and the cake was finished.
Friday, 10 January 2014
Star Wars Yoda Cake Tutorial
This was a Star Wars themed cake based around the character Yoda. Although making the figure was quite a challenge, once we put the full cake together we were very happy with the finished product and so was the customer.
We started off with a round 8" cake. Once we had butter creamed the cake, we rolled out black fondant and cut an 8" circle. Once we had covered the top of the cake with the black circle, we mixed Atlantic blue and white to create a royal blue colour and then we covered the full cake.
Covering the cake in black first allowed us to the cut through the blue icing and pull it back. If we did not put the black icing down first, when we pulled the blue back, the butter cream would be stuck to the blue.
Making the figure was definitely the hardest part. I decided to start of with rice crispy bars, which I used to create the body and head.
Once I had covered the bars using butter cream, I rolled out some green fondant to cover the head and brown fondant to cover the body. Once I had all of the bars covered, I then started to add the nose, eyes, arms and walking stick. Once these were starting to set, whilst the fondant was still soft, I used the pointed side of this tool to start drawing lines and wrinkles on the head.
I then left the figure to set overnight on a 4" round board.
To write on the cake I printed off the text onto a piece of plain paper. I then used a pin and pinned the corners of each of the corners and lines onto the fondant. When the lines were visible and had enough holes to work with, I took some white piping icing and piped around the holes marking out the letters. The original idea was to fill the letters in white, but we all decided it would look best being left as it was.
When the writing had set, it was time to put the finishing touches on the cake and put the cake together. I started by rolling out white fondant and cutting out white stars, which I then stuck to the cake using water before adding a white ribbon. I finally wrote the name on the board and the cake was finished.
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