Euphoria Perfume Bottle Cake

The perfume bottle cake was a replica of Calvin Klein's Euphoria.
For the base cake I made it with the very popular chocolate Madeira cake and chocolate butter cream and covered it in purple fondant and piped with royal icing Calvin Klein Euphoria which made it look like the perfume box.
Sat on top of the box was the perfume bottle that was made with the same cake mixture and then covered in baby pink fondant and dusted with a cerise powder colour that was later steamed to make it glossy. The lid was a small piece of cake covered in fondant and then sprayed with silver shimmer and left to dry. The lid was then placed on the bottle with some edible glue and left to dry over night.
After finishing the box and perfume I thought it was missing something so I had a look online to see what scents make up Euphoria and found out that one of the flowers used are Lotus Blossom so I printed a picture of lotus blossom placed some baking paper over the top and piped around the picture with various colours that matched the photo and left that to dry over night. In the morning I lifted the flowers off the paper and placed them round the cake board, I had done a couple Champaca flowers but the flowers were so small it broke. With the addition on the Lotus Blossom and the added black ribbon bow (I thought black would look sophisticated) the cake was finished.

Heart Cake

One of the books I've bought recently was the 'Pretty Party Cakes' by Peggy Porschen and the heart shaped valentine cake was one of the cakes featured.
When I was asked to do a wedding anniversary cake I knew straight away that that was the cake I wanted to attempt to recreate. Its slightly different in looks and flowers as my flowers are slightly larger and not as beautifully crafted I also added a poppy on mine as the couple whose cake it was for were married on the 11th November and have a military background so I thought it would make it more personal to them.
The cake is chocolate Madeira cake with chocolate butter cream and covered in a baby pink fondant. The flowers were piped with thick royal icing and left to dry over night and the stripes were piped with a thinner consistency of royal icing in three different shades of pink cerise, pink and pale pink. Once the stripes dried I added the flowers round the edge of the cake applying them with a spot of royal icing.

Hagrid and Buckbeak Cake

The Hagrid and Buckbeak cake was inspired by a scene from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban movie. The characters were the only part of the cake that were not edible but should last, as like a reminder of the cake. The characters were made out of fondant and sugar paste to help keep the bodies shapes.

The main cake was a chocolate Madeira cake with chocolate butter cream center, the hut was made out of rice crispies and chocolate so I could carve and mould to the right shape and then covered in brown and blue fondant. The chimney was made out of cake pop mixture and chilled in the fridge for an hour and a bit and then covered in grey fondant so it would keep its shape. The last components were the pumpkin cake pops, and the marzipan and chocolate matchsticks which made up the fire.

I really enjoyed putting this cake together, I have to admit that on the day it had to be ready for I was worried it wouldn't get finished. Thankfully I had one of those get your butt into action moments and worked solid for a number of hours and had fun in the end placing the components on the cake and adding those final touches like the rice crispies that had been carved off the hut were crushed down and sprinkled under where Buckbeak sat and made a little path outside of the hut.

Train Cake

The train cake was the first child's cake I've made and I really enjoyed making it. The train was created using a patchwork cutter and with it being for a little one I thought primary colours were the best colours to use.
The background fondant colours were blue for the sky and green for the grass with little white flowers dotted around. And I thought to finish it off I added a track for the train to run on and clouds in the sky with the little boys name and age in.

Yellow Rose Cake

I had the chance to make some sugar paste flowers for this cake which I always enjoy making. When given the order I wasn't given any colours to pick from so my mum said most women in their 70s and up love yellow so I went with a yellow theme. Thankfully mum was right and the cake was a hit.
Had a few small changes I would have like to have made but I only noticed them half hour before it was picked up so to late to changes anything. My main bug bear was the cake had a slight incline which meant the piping around the edge of the cake was off and the other thing was the number 88, I'm wishing I'd used an italic style of numbering.

Happy Halloween

I've never been one for celebrating Halloween not that I'm against it as I'm not just that we never really did the whole trick or treat thing when I was a kid so dressing up and staying in never really appealed. However this year I've been wanting to make some cake pops as I had left over cake sponge so I decided to do a Halloween theme.
The shapes are free style molding as it was kind of last minute thing so they are a little different in size but I think it adds to the homemade character.
These cake pops are chocolate sponge with vanilla cream icing and coated in white chocolate for the ghosts and orange chocolate for the pumpkins with a tiny bit of green fondant on top.
The only thing I would do differently is pipe the eyes and mouth on instead of paint as the food colouring never dried.