Celebration Cakes

The following cakes are a collection of celebration cakes. The chocolate cake below was for my dad to take into work with him. All of his colleagues were asking when they were going to taste one of these cakes he had been talking about, so he asked me to make a large chocolate sponge cake with loads of chocolate butter cream so here it is:








For my sister's birthday she wanted me to make a Jabba the Hut cake so I said of course I'll make it for you. I think she thought I was joking but here it is:

The section that I thought would be the hardest to do was making the shape of Jabba before covering with fondant but in fact that was the easy bit. I found colouring the icing more difficult and I'm wishing I had used a yellow colour for his face as the orange is a little too orange. But Beck loved it so that's the main thing.

For my mum's birthday she wanted a dragon cake. I had just been taught how to do brush embroidery so I thought it would be good practice to use that skill on a cake. It was more difficult than I thought it would be because the first stage is pinning the picture on the top of the cake and that leaves the basic structure for piping onto but because it was thin and had many curves and colours it looked like a dot to dot puzzle gone wrong. I'm pleased with how it turned out but

next time I'll try to keep the dots to a minimum.

The rose cake was the first cake I'd decorated with flowers before. The roses were made in class and it was the beginning of my love for flower making. I keep hoping for someone to ask for a flower cake so I can sit for hours making bud after bud. It may sound boring but it is so relaxing.

The cake below was the first cake I piped onto. I think it was the second lesson where we made templates out of greaseproof paper and traced around it with dots using a cocktail stick, then it was a case of using the piping techniques we had learnt the previous week. For a first attempt I was very pleased with myself.