Air Max Trainer Cake

I got a phone call from a girl who wanted a cake making for her boyfriend and it had to be a 3D version of an Air Max Trainer. With not knowing what an Air Max trainer looked like she sent me a picture of the exact one she wanted making. 

As it had to be carved, the cake I used was Madeira in a vanilla flavour with vanilla butter cream. The carving was the most difficult part as its knowing how much to cut off and what can be defined once the fondant goes on. 

Once I'd finished carving I covered the whole cake in white fondant and then work with the other colours for the detailing. For the cake board I used the three main colours and piped on the birthday message.

Super Mario Birthday Cake

I'd been asked by a family friend to make a cake for her son who was going to be turning 6 and she wanted the cake to be in the shape of a 6, for the rest of the design she left it up to me, eek.

With not having any kids and not really knowing any 6 year old boys I was totally at a loss for what they are into so of I went again to the trusty Internet. This is where I saw Super Mario, I sent her a text to see if he liked Mario and thankfully he does so I went with that. I also like playing the Mario games which came in useful. 

The cake is decorated like a level in a Mario game with the nasty bullets and piranha plants and then the super cute mushrooms and of course Super Mario. The bulk of the cake is covered in blue fondant and the edging is finished of with green for the hills and brown for the money blocks.

When picking up the cake she told us her son had asked for a Super Mario birthday card but had no idea his mum had ordered a Mario cake, I think that was a successful choice.

Bunting Cake

I received a phone call from a lady who was organising a charity event for Air Ambulance and she asked me if I would like to contribute which I did but was already making a load of cakes for another charity event happening on the same day and scarily for the same charity. The next best idea was providing a cake to be auctioned off during the event, with no idea what to do I had a flick though the Internet to get some ideas and saw a number of them with bunting. This was my light bulb moment, a cake on its way to a charity fair where there will probably be loads of bunting hanging up, perfect.

The two tiers were vanilla sponge with a orange blossom butter cream icing and then covered in white fondant. The bunting was all cut out by hand as I couldn't for the life of me find a bunting cutter and buying one online would have been to short notice so hand cut they were and decorated with the fondant pens. I was originally going to roll out some fondant for the rope that the bunting would be hanging from but the fondant was having none of it so after placing the bunting around the cake I piped around the top with pink royal icing. The middle of the cake was decorated with lots of blossom flowers and finished of with the candy pearls.

Willy Wonka and Rose Birthday Cakes

I wanted to make a Willy Wonka cake because a customer had been to the bakery enquiring about a birthday cake and that her child was into Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but didn't know where to start with a design so I did a couple of drawings with different ideas and prices, she picked them up and then nothing... didn't hear from her again. So that left me with the need to make a Willy Wonka cake so I thought it would look great in the bakery window. 

Its a two tier fake covered in green fondant with a chocolate fountain, well it would be chocolate if it was a real cake but I didn't think the bakery would be to chuffed to have melted chocolate all over the cabinet so I took piece of white and brown fondant and rolled them in to skinny sausage shapes then stuck it to the cake and painted over it with brown colouring. The decorations are a mixture of pick and mix sweets, fondant lollies and Umpa Lumpa's. The bit I really like is the Golden Ticket I was super pleased with how that turned out. I printed out an image of a golden ticket to the size I wanted the ticket to be, then cut out each of the letters. I thought the easiest way to do the ticket is to cut out a piece of black fondant to the size required then cover with a thin layer of trex this both keeps the letters in place and helps stick the gold lustre to the fondant, then carefully remove each letter to end up with a golden ticket. YEAH!

The Rose Birthday cake was a copy of a cake I had made in one of my sugar craft classes, I've been meaning to redo this cake for a while and I thought it would look quite nice in the window plus its not to expensive to make so would be great for people with a budget.