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Sports car cake

April 28th, 2012

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Here is the first ever car cake I made! Sorry I posted this after the Porsche car but I was a bit mixed up and posted that cake first. Anyways… I think that this cake was much better then the Porsche cake because it looked smoother and had more detail. Although I did think that shape needed to be more well defined to make it look more like a spors car and less like a van!This cake was make with a chocolate cake with chocolate chips and was filled with a raspberry mousse and decorated with regular fondant/ready to roll icing and vanilla butter cream.

This is a very special cake to me because it is the first I have made for someone other then my friends and family. So while making the cake I really felt pressured because it was a cake I had never made and I really just wanted everything to go right. A tip I would give to a first time decorator is that if you are making a cake for someone stick to what you know and what you are good at and practice cakes all year round not just for celebrations!

If you want to make a cake like this here are some of the tools you need. I will do a tutorial soon but first I think I need to keep working at my own decorating skills before I try and teach someone else.

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Mothers Day Cupcakes

April 21st, 2012

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For mothers day a couple of months ago I made these cupcakes. They were just simple vanilla cupcakes but with the simple decorations they looked stunning! These could also be used for a spring birthday or celebration as well. To make a swirl pattern I used an embossing mat and for the flowers I used blue fondant icing cut out with blossom cutters. To give the flowers their curved shape I let them dry in a flower former for about 1 hour. Then I finally arranged them on the cupcake by piping a circle of icing and sticking the flowers and silver ball in a simple pattern. For the centre cupcake I added a flower in the centre to make it extra special!

As you can see the middle cupcake is a bit different to add something extra special

Here is a birds eye view of the hole plate. I had to stand on my tip toes to take this!

…and finally the famous side view at an angle!

If your interested here are some of the tools I used!

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Nemo Cake

April 10th, 2012

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I know its a bit late but a few months ago I made a Nemo themed cake for my uncles birthday. I loved making the cake and I was very happy with the result. Personally I though it was strange I was asked to pipe “Happy 40 + 10 birthday Dave” but I guess it was funny. So here is probably the best cake I made… (drum roll please)

I handmade all of the decorations and I should be doing a tutorial on how to make it soon because it went so well. As well you can clearly see the little crab on the green mat thing (I used a 1m tip to make the pattern on it) on the edge of cake which is my favourite but because it is SO cute!

So overall I am very pleases with the results of this cake and hopefully I will do this good on another cake!

Here are some of the tools you need to create a cake like this-

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Porshe Cake

April 9th, 2012

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Well… I have to say this is definitely not my best cake but it still tasted great. It was a sticky toffee pudding cake filled with custard butter cream which was basically butter cream with a bit of custard powder mixed in. To make it I took an 8×8 inch sponge cake and split in half them filled and stacked it on a cake board then I carved the back of a car and used that piece to make the front of the car then continued carving until I was happy with the shape. But I wasn’t really happy because it was really bumpy. Still I continue on firstly by icing with butter cream and then covering with ready to roll icing.

Then to finish it off I painted it with an edible silver luster dust to give it a metallic look then I used chocolate flavoured black icing to make details. Although I do think the cake needed more details which looked slightly more realistic!

Here are some of the tools I used!

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How to Make Simple Sugar Flowers

March 3rd, 2012

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Here is a simple decoration you can make that will look great on cupcakes and even cakes! They are great mostly because they are easy and quick to make because when you use flower paste or gum paste they will dry in less then half and hour but they still make really cute decorations! As well they don’t have mush of a taste so by adding them to your cupcake it won’t ruin it by making it taste bad although some people might not want to eat them because they can be a bit crunchy