Goal Keeper Football Cake

For the football cake I'd been told that the lad really likes football and that his position is a goal keeper, also colours should be blue and white. Now I'm not a fan of football but I know there are a few teams whose strips are blue and white so I went for the safe option of white shorts with a blue top. 

The figure was originally going to be stood up but it was a bit too tall for the goal post and I thought an action position would look better. For the hair I moulded a piece of brown fondant on top of his head and used a pair of scissors to cut into the fondant to give it a spiky hair look, which unbeknown to me is exactly how the Robbie wears his hair. She shoots, she scores :-)

I had a lot of fun with the goal post, originally I was going to make it out of royal icing so it would have a net and posts but my attempts at trying to remove the royal icing goal broke, several times. So my Grandma gave me a bunch of drinks straws to have a play with and finally I managed to build a goal with three straws, two full straws for the posts and the end of a straw for the cross bar. With the straws being clear I put three cakepop sticks inside to make it stand out more.

The cake flavour was chocolate with chocolate butter cream and covered in Lincoln Green fondant with royal icing field markings and message. To make sure there was enough blue and white on the cake I covered the board in blue and white and finished it of with a blue ribbon around the board. 

Daisy Cupcakes

After putting the Bridal cupcakes over at the bakery I've already had interest in them but for a birthday instead of a wedding. For the order I made six bridal style cupcakes which I've put a photo of at the bottom of the post, they were exactly like the other bridal cupcakes I posted a couple of days ago with the addition of a name so I won't go into detail about them. Along with the bridal cupcakes I made four Daisy cupcakes which I kept in the peach and cream colour scheme. I have made a lot of the Daisy cupcakes but to make them a bit more glitzy I sprinkled on some edible pearls.

Bridal Cupcakes

I'd been asked by the bakery to make some fake cupcakes for the display unit as they have had a number of people asking about them, so I went straight on the Internet to see how much it would cost to buy some fake cupcake bases to decorate. However I came across an extremely handy video on YouTube showing people how to make fake cupcakes, I can't remember the name of the video but if you type in 'fake cupcakes' in a search engine it should come up on the first page. 

Anyways the main body of the cupcake is made with expanding foam that you would usually use to fill a hole in a wall. If you are planning on making some fake cupcakes yourself use an old or buy a cheap muffin tin as its chemical based and I'm not sure how many washes it would need to go through before it could be used safely to make edible cupcakes. Be warned once you have put cases in the muffin tin and popped a 2p piece in the bottom of each make sure you only go half way up the case with the foam as it does expand by a lot, I had to trim my down as there is no way on earth I could make an edible cupcake that big. Leave it to set over night.

Once the foam has dry, trim it down if needs be and decorate with whatever design you want. For a more detailed explanation watch the video I told you about it is really good.

For my cupcakes I went for a bridal theme, I kept the palette in pastel shades with a vintage feel. The decorations vary from pearls, roses and butterflies. The design that I found troublesome was the blue cupcake covered in white flowers, the petals are extremely delicate once dried and when boxing it up a number of petals fell off and I had to quickly make some more. The other design which took a bit of working out was the rose and pearls design, the first attempt at this I made the pearls way to small and it didn't look right so I started again with a larger pearl which totally works and doesn't take as long to make. 

For the large rose cupcake I used two rose petal cutters they were the fourth and fifth larger cutters. To make it I cut out the petals and built it straight onto the cupcake except for the middle section which I made a rose and popped it in to the middle to finish it.

Daisy and Easter Cupcakes

For this order they wanted some of the daisy cupcakes mixed in with an Easter selection so I pretty much knew what I was going to do for the Easter selection. 

I made three different designs the first was the daisy which I made with a gerbera cutter and a small ball of yellow fondant for the middle. The second design was the traditional mini eggs in a nest and the third was a bunny theme which if you haven't guess already I do love the little critters :-) for these cupcakes I used a holly leaf cutter and halved it to get the grass mound and a bunny cutter for the bunny then finished it of with a mini egg and blossom flowers.

The flavours were a mixture of vanilla, chocolate and marble. 

Pink and White Birthday Cake

This birthday cake was an order for the bakery. It was a straight forward cake, vanilla sponge and butter cream and decorated in pink and white fondant with the birthday message on top.

The writing was piped on with royal icing and to make it look a bit more fancy I added beading and a pink fondant ribbon around it.