Vegetable Patch

Here is a cake made for a keen gardener. The board was covered in brown sugar paste and then sugartex applied to give the appearance of soil. The vegetables and model were made with modelling paste. The cake was covered with brown sugar paste and then planks of wood - these were made by rolling modelling paste which was cut in to strips and then made to look like wood by adding a grain with a cocktail stick.

Baby Boy

Here is the cake I made for my friends after the birth of their baby boy – the same couple I made the wedding cake for last year!   It is a chocolate sponge covered in white sugar paste and baby themed decorations.  They were made by adding gum tragacanth to blue sugar paste, this was them pushed into mould which were dusted with corn flour.   At first the gum kept sticking to the mould but I soon realised the key is to use a paint brush and a lot of corn flour to make sure it gets in to all the nooks and crannies of the mould, once I realised that then they were easy to make. 
July 2011

  

Tortoise and Hare

As part of our final project at college we had to model 2 characters in marzipan.  I wanted to make 2 different figures that worked together so decided to make a tortoise and a hare.   The marzipan in coloured with paste colours and is supported with dried spaghetti and edible glue, the tortoise shell is painted with liquid colours.  I thought this may be something I struggled with as I am not the artiest person around but I am pleased with them.  I am really sad that my course has come to an end as I have really enjoyed it and met some lovely people, fingers crossed for August when we get our results!
June 2011

Project Number 3

Here is my third and final cake for my course.  This time it was covered with sugar paste and we made flowers using flower paste and cutters, we also had to include embossing, crimping, cut out letter and a sugar paste border ... phew!  Quite a lot of techniques on one cake but it was good to learn all of them.  I am on the lookout for another class I can take on making the flowers as this is something Ii have really enjoyed.
June 2011

Cousin's Wedding Cake

This is the wedding cake I decorated for my cousin.  My aunt made the 3 cakes, which are a rich fruit cake, and I decorated them with royal icing.  It is amazing how much work goes in to covering a cake with royal icing but I am really pleased with the result.  I was a little worried about adding the dowels for support as I thought the icing may crack but I was advised to add glycerine to softer the icing and this worked really well. I received loads of compliments on the day and most importantly the bride and groom loved it.
June 2011

Derby Cup Cakes

I made some cupcakes for a party we had after the Epsom Derby last weekend.  They are vanilla cupcakes with vanilla butter cream which was piped with a 1M tube.  I made some run out horse racing themed designs.  After a day of gambling and drinking in the sunshine they went down really well.
June 2011

Project Number 2

This is my second cake which I had to make as part of my course.  It is a round royal iced cake with scrolls and flowers. It has S and C scrolls piped along the top edge and rope scrolls along the bottom.  It is pretty over the top for such a small cake but I quite like the finished look.  Apologies for the messy work bench behind the cake, I am not a tidy cake decorator!
May 2011