Gerbera Cake

The gerbera's are sat on a Victoria sponge cake however this version was without jam and with vanilla butter cream so I'm not sure if the WI would count it as a Victoria sponge cake.
I covered the top of the cake in white fondant which I then piped pearls with butter cream around the outside to finish the edges off.
The gerbera's are made out of hot pink fondant and finished with a yellow centre. I loved making these flowers because they look really pretty and weren't that difficult to make.

Easter Cake

I love Easter so when I found an Easter Bunny Patchwork set I had to have it.
The cake is fruit and covered in marzipan, I'm not keen on the taste of fondant neither is my dad (who the cake was for) however we both love marzipan and it worked well with the Easter theme so I went with that. The patchwork cutters weren't too bad to use, a couple of bunny ears got a bit stretched out of shape but after a few attempts I got there.
One of the bunnies was based around a family pet which I later regretted as I had to cut into him not fun but tasty.

The Garden Cake

The Garden Cake was for a couples 40th wedding anniversary, I'd been asked to make a heart shaped cake with a garden theme with the couple sat on a bench. I love flowers and garden themes so I had plenty of ideas running through my brain however I didn't think I'd have enough time to make a bench in a couple of days so I thought the next best thing was a log. Later on in the thought process came the 40th scratch into the log idea with a heart etched around it, it's the type of thing couples do. The log is made from cake pop mixture and covered in milk chocolate to give it a gnarly look like a tree.
The white picket fence symbolises the growing old together in a house surrounded by a white picket fence, well that's my idea of marriage, mushy maybe but it worked for the cake.
The flowers are made out of fondant along with the two figures so it was all edible.

Pirate Ship Cake

The Pirate Ship Cake was for a little boy who was having a pirate themed birthday.
Its made with chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream and is decorated with chocolate brown fondant and teddy bear brown fondant for the decking.
With it being a cake for a little one I thought it best to use sweets to decorate the cake instead of all fondant so the railing is flake chocolate bars sat on top of small pieces of fondant and the guns are Rolo's stuck on with butter cream.
The mass is made out of paper and skewers that have been stuck in to cake picks and the little pirate was made out of fondant so it was edible.
Along with the cake they had ordered a batch of cupcakes half vanilla and half chocolate. To stick with the pirate theme I piped blue food coloured vanilla butter cream on to each cupcake and then made four different motifs: Skull and Crossbones, Treasure Map, Pirates, and Islands. It felt like the cupcakes took longer to decorate than the cake because the motif were so small but worked really well.

Narnia Cake

The Narnia Cake is based on 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' movie. It's a checker board vanilla and chocolate sponge and I found the best way to do that was to bake them both separate (otherwise it would be marble cake unless you have a divider tin) and then thirded each cake, sticking them together with chocolate butter cream.
The Wardrobe I made with madeira cake as it was standing up so it needed to be strong enough to stay standing once all the fondant went on.
The figures and the lamp-post were the only parts that were non edible as the person who ordered it wanted to keep them after the cake was gone.
The trees are made with green fondant and mint matchsticks, it works alright but I found that a couple of the matchsticks broke with the weight of the fondant. If anyone reading this blog has any other tree making methods I would love to hear them as I'm sure there must be better methods than that.
I thought the edge of the cake looked a bit bare so I piped some more trees with royal icing to make it look like the winter lifting and the summer returning.