A little Sheepish!

This little ewe if for Jane's 21st. Underneath the fondant on the face between the eyes is a water balloon filled with raspberry topping. The theme of the birthday is super villains. When Jane cuts the cake with a generous stab, the balloon should burst and the cake will ooze raspberry. Certainly a wee lamb to slaughter - not my idea, but what they want, they get.

Jim Beam 21st

This cake is quite long - approx 18inches. It is banana filled with butter cream then butter cream crumb layer then brown and yellow food colouring rolled in fondant to give it a mottled look. I lay a bottle of bourbon down next to the cake before i iced it - and of course the bourbon looks like liquid gold, that's why it is the colour it is. I also dusted it with pearl luster, it looked glassy. This picture is a bit too bright to catch the depth of colour.

Its your Boobsday

I get pretty frustrated when it is warm and the butter cream stays so soft - this should be very smooth - like skin.  I should have used much thicker fondant. Every time i went to smooth the butter cream layer a little bit more - it would lift. The board was too big to put into the fridge. I still have so much more to learn. Oh well, i hope birthday boy 40 will enjoy it.

MGP Scooter for Callum

Callum got an MGP scooter for his birthday - so the idea was to try and make one that looked like it. So i decided a scooter/skate part would make a good base. I do not know how to make things out of fondant that stand up - especially something like this - if anyone has any ideas - they would be gratefully received.

Final result of previous post

Please read the previous post for cake details.

Topsy Turvy Terror turns to delight

Take a look at all of the pics for this cake - what a labour intensive cake this is. Not to mention the cost of all ingredients, the dowels, the boards etc.  The cakes are american Pound Cake - which i probably will not make again - they use a lot of ingredients and are a bit unreliable, in so much as they can fail if you do not do things just right. The other cakes are butter cake from the AWW Book. Each tier has two cakes cut in half then sandwiched with butter cream.  Then they are trimmed to the desired shape and covered in butter cream and put in the fridge. Then the central hole/platform for the next tier is shaped in on the first and second cake. Then the fondant goes on. That is five 750gm packets altogether, 3.5 packs tinted pink and the other 1.5 left white.- the first and second cakes have six dowels each put through them around the outer edge of the platform area. The the cake is constructed and a long anchoring dowel is put through the entire cake. Then i covered up as many of the imperfections as i could with icing dots and balls.
End result - not too shabby. But not after a lot of fluttering of the heart and a few more grey hairs have grown.

Butterfly for birthday belle # 2

Another butterfly cake for a dear little girl. This cake is more vibrant in colour than the previous one and the decorations are slightly different. I have to say i do not like using butter cream in the warmer weather - it stays a little too soft.