Special mention - May 2016

So excited! 

Last month I had a cake featured on Cake Decor. This month they've featured TWO of my cakes! 

 

http://cakesdecor.com/entries/3348-cakesdecor-theme-wedding-cakes-part-26

Hydrangeas, Roses and Scabious wedding cake - May 2016

Sugar flowers everywhere st the moment.  Here's today's offering x

Heart shaped mini cakes - April 2016

Sweet little heart shaped cakes.  

They not only look good though, they taste great too ;)

Cute huh!

x

The Torchbearer - April 2016

Boys are not hard to bake for, but sometimes they can be hard to decorate for.  For Joe, torches have become a real interest so I wanted to design something to reflect this, but a torch shaped cake... well, it's hard to make that not look a bit dodgy really.  So I went a different route.  I think he approved.

Joe, you are so loved and I'm looking forward to spending some holiday time with you in a few weeks.  Happy birthday lovely man xxxx

Floral cascade cake with 90 and Jack Russell - Dec 2015

A 2 tier buttercream covered cake with lots of different coloured fondant flowers.

This one was a 90th birthday cake for a lovely lady who has a soft spot for Jack Russells so we added some toppers to reflect this.

NOTE:  These and many other toppers are available in my Etsy shop.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/KasserinaHome?ref=hdr_shop_menu

Ducati birthday cake - Feb 2016

6" chocolate cake with a small Ducati 996 modelled on the top.

NOTE:  This and many other toppers are available in my Etsy shop.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/KasserinaHome?ref=hdr_shop_menu

Croquembouche - Jan 16

Nom, Nom, Nom!

...nuff said

Pearl and Magnolia Wedding cake

3 tier wedding cake with lots of girly detail but with a clean modern finish.

The top tier is covered with dragees, second tier is a collage of hand cut fondant flowers.

NOTE:  This magnolia and many other toppers are available in my Etsy shop.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/KasserinaHome?ref=hdr_shop_menu

Simple Rainbow stacked cake with sprinkles - December 2015

Simple but effective!

Six layers of rainbow vanilla love, stacked high, covered with smoothed buttercream and showered with rainbow sprinkles... perfect.

Now, the only issue with this little lovely is that when you make a cake higher than it is wide, it tends to want a little lie down when you drive it around corners (especially when you've made it to taste this good).  

This cake had quite a way to go, so in order to make sure that the cake was safely transported I gave it a central bubble straw support to make sure that the layers didn't slide around on the buttercream.  

I also screwed a dowel into the cake drum and positioned the bubble straw and cake over it so nothing could shift during delivery.

I hadn't even got back from delivering the cake before the customer sent me this photo. It seems to have gone down well!

Hoo ha! 

Jack Skellington Halloween cake - Oct 15

A spooky Jack Skellington cake for a Halloween birthday. 

A 2 layer chocolate fudge cake. Yummy!  I used orange coloured vanilla buttercream between the layers, obviously. 

Once I'd done the usual buttercream covering as a crumb coat (see earlier posts), I covered it in black fondant.

Using a paper template as a guide, so I knew where things were going, I started building up the contours a bit with white fondant.

The shiny bits are trex to stick the fondant together with something that will disappear over time.

He was looking eerily like a black and white mistral at this point which was making me feel a bit weird...

I covered the whole thing with white fondant, cut out the eyes and slits for the mouth and stitching, exposing the black underneath, pressed the fondant over the contours, shaped with various modelling tools and dusted with black and green petal dust.

I airbrushed the fondant covered cake drum, put the cake on and continued to airbrush the base of the cake so it blended in with the board.  I added black and white striped ribbon to the sides of the cake drum. 

I deliberately dirtied up the white a bit with blossom tint and airbrushing; after all, he is a Tim Burton character, it wouldn't go for him to look too perfect and pristine.

Giraffe birthday cake - October 2015

Small three layer 6" chocolate fudge birthday cake with a theme... 

think you can tell what that might be!

NOTE:  This and many other toppers are available in my Etsy shop.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/KasserinaHome?ref=hdr_shop_menu