Giant Red Velvet Cupcake

The Giant Red Velvet Cupcake was for a family friend who just turned 15. I'd only ever made one cake using the giant cupcake mould so I was a bit worried it wouldn't work properly, which is why I did a test run using the red velvet recipe I found on the Internet. It worked OK, lost a bit off the sides of the cake with it being a silicon mould but still had the basic shape of a giant cupcake. 

The photos below are of the birthday cake not the test run. She was unsure as to what flavour to have for the icing and it was between vanilla and chocolate so I did both and create a swirly pattern. To finish it of I added a red daisy.

Easter Cake

I noticed the last time I went over to the bakery that the last Easter Cake I made had faded quite badly and was no longer green and blue but turquoise, which is a very nice colour but not when its meant to be a picnic scene.

So this time I've gone white and kept with the bunny theme as they are super cute and very Easter. I've create a bunny paradise with carrots galore and Easter eggs going around the bottom edge of the cake. I must mention that Easter eggs aren't good for bunnies :-) just in case there are any young readers. 

The carrots and bunny are all hand made which is why the bunny looks a little bit like a mouse I think its the whiskers that did it. 

For this cake I wanted to make it super kids friendly, very colourful and fun so hopefully someone will want to buy one and I'll make sure its cake inside and not polystyrene.

Tulip Cake

The Tulip Cake was for a 30th birthday and the brief was red tulips and lots of them. 

I thought with it being a special birthday that a sugar spray would be nice so she would have a reminder of her 30th birthday and then edible tulips around the outside accompanied with a red fondant ribbon and three little butterflies.

The sugar paste tulip was the first one I've ever made so I was quite chuffed it turned out like the one on the Internet where I got the instructions from. The leaves are free hand and were the second batch I made as the first three were too skinny and didn't look right next to the large tulip.

The cake and board are covered in white fondant and the message was piped on with royal icing.

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.