Vivienne Westwood Shoes Cake

For the Vivienne Westwood Cake I had to do a bit of research as I know about Westwood but was unsure as to her style of shoes which was the theme for this cake. I was given the order on Monday morning and it was due for Wednesday evening so I knew I didn't have the time to make an actual shoe but that I could do a sort of patchwork shoe collection. After looking on the Internet and realising how cute her shoes are I picked my top 4, two to be put on the cake and then take key elements from the other two which were hearts and bows. I also incorporated the Westwood logo that has a section in the middle where I put the recipients name with Happy Birthday next to it.

To recreate the shoes I printed out the two I was going to put on the cake and cut around them. Next I rolled out the fondant placed one of the cut outs on top and cut around it. Once I had the main outline I cut the different sections out so there was three section for the insole on the pink shoe and replaced with a lighter pink fondant and then dusted the heel with a darker pink to create definition and cut another strap out to give a 2D effect along with the cherries. The red shoe was a lot easier to make as there was only a bit of shading to do and then covered it in clear edible glitter (couldn't get hold of red edible glitter).

To finish of the sides I cut out hearts in baby pink, blue and green.

I've already heard back from the Birthday girl and she loved it which is really nice to hear.

Golfer Cake

About a week after the Chic Vintique fair our oven decided it had had enough and stop working properly so we had to go out on bank holiday weekend for a new oven. I may have made the mistake of saying 'I'm surprised the oven's still working after the week of none stop baking it's had' to my sister which was about two days before it stopped working. (note to self don't say anything like that again out loud). Thankfully we found one on offer due to the holiday which could also be fitted on the Monday, YEAH. 

The last couple of weeks have been super busy and I hadn't had the chance to try out the new oven with baking a cake so when I was asked to make a cake for an order I got a bit of a shock when I cut it in half as it had uncooked sections, poo. Knowing this I made a second cake, which when in the oven rouse more on one side creating a ridge, this was slightly worrying as I thought it was going to be undercooked again. Thankfully when I cut this one in half it was cooked perfectly and the ridge lent itself to the brief of a golfing theme making a great hill. I don't get many requests for cakes for men so when asked to make one around golfing I knew what I was going to do, a man playing golf :-) 

The cake was covered in marzipan which made a great sand verge colour and then covered with Lincoln green fondant with the verge section cut out. 

The figure was made to look like the recipient so I did the hair colour white and grey with a beard and blue eyes. The clothes were blue and black as requested. The golf stick was made with a candy stick and a piece of sugarpaste that were dusted silver and black and the flag was also made with a candy stick.