Fisherman Cake

The Fisherman Cake was for a 65 year old man. My brief was to make a vanilla sponge and to have a fishing theme and also a fisherman. 

As soon as I was given the cake order I knew straight away what I was going to do - a man sat on a log fishing in a pond sat next to a fish fishing in the same pond.

At that point I didn't know if I could make an actual fishing rod with a fish hanging off the line but I had a play with some 22 gauge wire and some brown fondant which made the rod and attached some invisible thread to end. The day before I cut out a 6 and a 5 in orange sugar paste, rolled a criss-cross effect over the numbers and then brushed some shimmer over them to make them look like Goldfish skin. Once dried the next day after making the rods I attached a number to each of the rods and to my amazement it worked and the figures didn't fall over which was my biggest worry. 

The bulk of the cake is covered in Lincoln Green fondant and I used a mixture of duck egg and royal blue to create a water swirl pattern for the pond. The log is cake pop mixture shaped to look like a log and I then brushed the melted chocolate onto the cake mixture to give it a bark look. To finish of the edging I piped some green royal icing around the cake to make it look like grass.

Cakes for Bakery Window

These two cakes are the last to go into the bakery display unit for the moment.
I'm not sure how popular Gender Reveal parties are in Britain but I know its quite big in America so I thought I would jump on the band wagon and help bring the craze over to us Brits. At these parties no one knows the sex of the baby even the expecting parents until they cut into the cake to find either pink or blue icing. For my version I've gone with white fondant icing to cover the cake with a quilting effect which I've added blue and pink spots. For the top I made two teddies one pink for a girl and the other blue for a boy and then added the words 'Open To See'. Even if Gender Reveal parties don't take off I still think it would make a very cute Christening or naming ceremony cake.

The last cake is an Easter Fake, I'm a huge fan of bunnies so it had to be decorated with the Easter Bunny. The decoration are patchwork and took a long time to do, the ears are extremely fiddly to get out of the cutter without stretching them but once it's all fitted together it looks really sweet and to cute to eat.
Obviously once Mothers day, Valentines day and Easter are other with I will be making some new Fakes.