Kasserina: buttercream

I am a cake obsessive, based in West Sussex, UK.

I started off making cakes for family and friends before giving up a proper career in favour of playing with sugar full time. Having worked for two bakeries making their wedding and celebration cakes, I am now looking toward world domination with breaks for coffee and chat.

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To see my website go to: www.kasserina.com. You can email me on info@kasserina.com.

I also sell some sugarcraft items on Etsy. Please go to https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/KasserinaHome?ref=hdr_shop_menu

Thanks for looking!

Showing posts with label buttercream. Show all posts

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Blue Ombré - March 2016

Simple blue ombre cake.

Happy birthday Luke!

Asymmetric piped buttercream flower cake - March 2016

A sloping rose garden piped from buttercream.

Happy Easter all!

Yellow rose buttercream cake - March 2016

An orange and elderflower cake to celebrate a double birthday for two beautiful friends.

Ladies, you completely rock! Happy birthdays both xxx

Sunday, March 06, 2016

Golden blossom cake - March 2016

A blossom cake for my wonderful mum.

Happy Mother's Day to every mum, but especially to mine who is the best ever.

Mum, you're a crazy loon who never stops trying to make the world a better place for everyone around you. You're my inspiration and teacher as well as my friend. You are so loved by us all. Stay being you, you rock! xxxx

Saturday, February 27, 2016

Rainbow Dash colour pour cake - February 2016

A "My Little Pony" cake featuring Rainbow Dash.

A simple buttercream covered cake with rainbow coloured royal icing poured over the top and drizzled down the sides.

Happy Birthday Isla.

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

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

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

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!

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Bajan chevron and Pom-Pom baby shower cake - July 2015

Some old friends of mine, Hilda and Mitchell, are having a baby... very soon now.

As Hilda and Mitch hail from Barbados, the colours of the party are based on the Bajan flag and organiser Joan's brief was chevrons and pom-poms.

Since early on the baby's been known as the Cocoa Bean, shortened to CB in all communication.

Hilda's lovely friend Joan organised a baby shower from across the Atlantic, which was impressive.

At one point though, I really didn't think it was fated that I would get to the party. I was stuck for hours between junctions when the M23 was shut down, had to go cross country to get around (had to navigate a couple of ditches and a gravel road on the way to the A24), diversions on the A24, very heavy traffic on the M25, severe delays on the M4 so went for the M40 only to find that was shut down for 3 junctions too. Eventually got there just as the guest started to arrive rather than the very, very early arrival I'd planned for... thank god for my OCD contingency time scales!

This was my first chevron cake and I used the Jessica Harris, waxed paper transfer method (see her craftsy class @ http://www.craftsy.com/class/clean-and-simple-cake-design/209?_ct=sbqii-sqjuweho-dum&_ctp=4&rceId=1437656063514~ohxnsua5).

The thing I would change for next time though is that I mixed Culpitt gold flower-paste with the cocoform. I wanted the yellow to be irredescent but didn't want to screw up the straight lines by painting it afterward. That gold flower paste is so ridiculously hard to use and it made the cocoform much less stable so I had to make the chevron's thicker than I would have liked and it bugged me every time I looked at the cake.

Congratulations H&M,

CB, really looking forward to meeting you,

Joan, it was lovely to meet you,

Jason, Happy Birthday,

Everyone else, it was great to see you

xxxx