Boy's Birthday Cake

A friend asked me to make his little boy's birthday cake.  He loves Moshi Monsters and his favourite character is Oddie.  I made an 8" chocolate cake with vanilla butter cream, the cake was covered in light blue sugar paste and the board is covered in green, I added the yellow balls to pull all the colours together.  I could find the colours of sugar paste I wanted so I bought it in white and used paste colours to get the shade I needed.  Oddie was made as a run out, it had to be done over several days to let each part dry and then I painted on the irises and pupils with food colour.
February 2011

Project Number 1

As part of my course at college we have to produce three project cakes - this is my first one.  It is a square royal iced cake with a run out design of our choice.  It has bulbs piped along the bottom edge and shells along the top.  It was the first time I had done flat royal icing, usually opting for snow effect and I was very proud of the results.  Sadly this was done on a polystyrene dummy and not a real fruit cake!
January 2011

FA Cup Cakes

When I made these I had just started on my cake decorating course.  My family's football team were in the FA Cup so I made some FA Cup cakes!  The cup cakes and the butter cream were coconut using coconut milk instead of regular milk.  The decorations were made as run outs - a technique using very runny royal icing to make a design.  The cups were made in white icing then I painted them silver when they were dry.   Sadly we lost so these were the first and last FA Cup cakes I made!
November 2010

Wedding Cake

 

Here is the first commissioned cake I made, it was for my friend’s wedding in May 2010.  She wanted 120 cupcakes in pink, green and cream with a top cake for them to cut.  The cupcakes are all vanilla with rose, vanilla and lemon butter cream icing.  The top cake is a Madeira cake with vanilla butter cream and covered with sugar paste.  I bought the flowers and bows to decorate the cupcakes this time but wanted to learn how to make them for myself.  I made 144 cupcakes in case any were damaged in transit but I didn’t need to worry, it all went very smoothly for a first attempt and the couple were really happy with it.
May 2010