And in the Blue corner.....

Last week/weekend saw a mamoth bake off at home, this is one of the results.

 

Firstly a poorly oven :(

As the first cake was about to be placed in, the handle decided it had had enough and broke.

Sadly it could not be fixed as the material had deteriorated and split and the other side would not come off - making the task difficult to say the least!

 

 

A good opportunity to buy a new one?

Again, a no! Robert went online and ordered a new part - well a girl can dream!

 

Anyhow, I digressed.

You may recall that at the beginning of March, my lovely friend Tracey's daughter was 18.

I made Emma a cake from a photo she showed me - all pink and zebra striped, see here.

 

Well, Tracey's sister's son was 18 on Sunday 14th so I was asked to make a similar version in blue's with a boxing glove on it.

 

 

The cake is an 10" and 6" chocolate sponge sandwiched with chocolate orange buttercream.

I covered the bottom one with blue fondant and cut out white stars which I glittered with edible glitter and Cranbury vodka - yes vodka - don't remember why but I was told it was the best thing to use???

The next layer is was covered with white and then placed onto the lower one centrally.

I added some 18's cut with blue fondant and some more stars.

 

I then piped stars (although they sank a little) around the base of both layers, with royal icing.

Little dots of the same were pipe to join the stars.

 

 

I piped a ring of dots on the top of the cake and then set about creating a glove.

This was made with red fondant and moulded by hand.

I cut a wedge out of the top and poked some holes with a skewer then placed "sausages" of black fondant across to form the laces.

 

Phew! Can't tell you how pleased I was to have finished this one!

 

Hope you had super day Archie - Happy Birthday

xxx

Pocahontas cake

Lianne and I were talking recently about old photographs and cakes and she asked me to find these ones of a cake I made for her 6th birthday.

She wanted a Pocahontas cake and I didn't want to convert the Barbie tin again (a story for another time!) so I hired a number "6" tin and made this one.

Covered in green fondant icing to represent the forest, I added a stream, pool and waterfall of marbled blue fondant. The trees were formed into a cone shape then I cut into the sides with scissors to make them look like fir trees. I added some grey/brown marbled fondant rocks and piped buttercream to look like bubbles in the water.

The figures were from a Polly Pocket set she had and I placed them to look as if John Smith was spying on Pocahontas over the river.

Here is the birthday girl cutting the cake, can't believe she is now 22!

I must find some suitable papers and scrap this too.

Thanks for looking, it's been nice reminiscing.