Wedding bells and a blue cake!

My two friends got married in May. 10th May, also my sisters birthday so I'll never forget :)
As their wedding gift I made the wedding cake. The picture below is the finished product. A fabulous navy blue cake with edible flowers up the sides. The entire cake was made up of my famous chocolate biscuit cake with Maltesers. It went down a treat. I never get sick of it and it makes my heart pound from all the sugary goodness or badness, whatever way you want to look at it :)
the smaller cake I made for my darling sister. As mentioned above it was her birthday too so as a little surprise I made a 6" Choc biscuit cake for her with the navy and red spots, the exact design on the Kath Kidson bag and iPad cover I gave her for said birthday. We made a holy show of her of course complete with the band singing happy birthday. She hated it but loved it really :D

Hip Hip Hooray you're 18 and 21 today!

Hello everyone out there and thank you for hanging in there with me.
Last week was quite busy for me, not that I'm complaining one bit :D
I had two birthday cakes to make, a joint 18th cake and a 21st cake. The 21st cake was a giant cupcake cake surrounded by mini cupcakes with pink and sparkles and little tiny bows on the front of the cases, how cute!!
My client (teehee) wanted a lemon sponge cake with a raspberry jam centre and wanted it girly and pretty. I love raspberry and lemon together, the two flavours really compliment each other so again I was excited, it really doesn't take much :D I have a fabulous Wilton cupcake mould, a present from my wonderful sister that I used for this cake though to be truthful I did make a mess first time around, I didn't put enough cake mixture into the two halves but luckily I always buy in bulk and got it perfect the second time around,phew!! So I let that cool and made my cupcakes for around it and left them in their cases. Thinking back I wish I had bought pretty cupcake cases but I'll know for the next time, besides the little bows stood out better on the plain ones, in my opinion :)

The other cake I had the pleasure of making was probably one of my top 2 cakes EVER!!! Chocolate biscuit cake with maltesers yum yum yum. My good friend Helen put in a good word for me with her lovely neighbour YAY, I owe you a drink or two Miss Hellraiser CHEERS LUV!
So a joint 18th party, a delicious cake covered in my favourite chocolate ganache icing,delicious!! I love using chocolate for my cakes, it's so nice and easy to work with and control. Writing is far easier which is great as it wasn't that long ago when I was shaking like a crazy fool when I started to write. It's great to have found my steadiness at long last :D I thank you o melty chocolate. I made a half of a champagne bottle out of fondant and used edible writing pens to finish it off. The last touch was the edible glitter sprinkled on top, every girl needs a bit of sparkle in their life, especially on their birthday :D

Drum kit wedding cake and Germany beats Argentina woohoo

Well hello everyone!!

What a glorious day. Managed to get my Wedding cake finished in great time and Germany beat Argentina 4-0 happy days for me and my German companion Mr. Ben, very happy and high spirits all around :D

So the cake was an adventure for sure. It took a while to figure out what to use for the drum kit. My rice krispie treats didn't work. I thought once I'd applied a layer of roayl icing they would harden up but I was wrong. I also tried making the kit out of fondant and thought it worked i just felt that it looked a bit chunky. Finally I decided on liquorice wheels and liquorice allsorts for my kit as well as fondant and it worked a treat. I pressed two liquorice wheels together and applied a thin layer of white fondant and a strip of black around the edges. It worked so nicely and I was finally happy. Third time lucky!!

From there on it was nice and easy. As it was a chocolate biscuit cake I applied a layer of buttercream frosting to it and let it chill for an hour. This stops the chocolate colour seeping through to the white fondant icing. I rolled out the white fondant with my super duper massive silicon rolling pin!!! :D using icing sugar to stop it sticking to the table, then I applied it to the cake and smoothed it down with my cake smoother tool :)

Next came the ribbon. Two colours,black and white,simple but very effective and finished with a little bow. I set the drum kit on a circle of black fondant to make it stand out and it did! Finally, I used my little Dr. Oetker black writing pen and drew on musical notes all around the base of the cake. Hope you like the finished product as I enjoyed making and creating it. I handed over the cake to my client who was delighted so yay! Another satisfied customer hurrah!!!

Hello everyone, sorry for being away a few days there, just enjoying the sunshine too much to do any baking at all. But it's another week now and baking must be done. This week I've been asked to make a Wedding cake for a friends' friend. It's a second wedding so nothing elaborate just a lovely simple but effective black and white theme. The cake itself will be a chocolate biscuit cake with a few maltesers thrown in for extra crunch and this, when set, will be covered in snow white fondant. There will be a black and a white ribbon around the cake with a lovely big bow, I'll need my sister Linda for that, she always does the best bows! Now the top of the cake will have a drumset on top as the husband to be is a pretty decent drummer and then I'll scatter a few hand painted muscial notes here and there and that's it!
So far I've bought the ingredients, ribbons, fondant and yesterday evening I began the drum set. Tricky enough to do but hopefully once it's all brought together it'll look good enough for the cake,fingers crossed!!
I'll take some photo's along the way and have them up in the next blog.
Wish me luck !!!

Love from me and my baking :D