Flower cakes

Nov 2013

2012

Flowers can be tricky to make, but it's funny how a bit of practise can change your skills - here are some flower cakes that I have made over the last couple of years, using the same technique, as described in a cake decorating book.

 

Oct 2013

 

 

 

2011

I'm glad to see that there has been some improvement! 

 

These are all made out of fondant or flower paste, and without wires.  The cake decorating books all say that these are 'simple' sugar flowers - which they are (in comparison to complicated wire ones) but I still find them a bit fiddly.  

 

I think the next workshop that I go to will be about making flowers - I still have lots to learn!

-N- 

1st Birthday Cake

Another catch-up post.. This is a 1st Birthday cake that I made well over a year ago!  This one was a vanilla cake with vanilla butter-cream.  Since making this one, I have invested in some large number cutters, which make using numbers a lot simpler! 
 

Jet Jaguar Cake

 

Jet Jaguar cake

My husband always chooses something rather challenging for his birthday cake, and last year he wanted a Jet Jaguar cake to go with his Cult Movie Marathon themed party.  Don't know who Jet Jaguar is?  Me neither until I watched Godzilla vs Megalon.  He is the robot that fights with Godzilla to defeat the other monsters (no idea who the other monsters were - I assume one of them was Megalon :) 

The cake was definitely a challenge, and I wasn't sure that the top of his robot head would defy gravity for any length of time, but it did, and it turned out pretty well in the end after a few attempts (and after a while of the back of his head resting against an empty fondant bucket while it set).
 

I also made a bunch of movie themed biscuits which were served during each movie.  Can you guess which movies??

 

What will be the challenge for 2014?  Have to wait until September to find out...  although I do have an idea for my Royal Show entry this year :)

 

-N-