The Flannery: July 2011

Main Blurb

Hi,

My name is Jane and I am using this blog as a way of keeping a record of my cake decorating projects.

I have always enjoyed cooking, particularly baking and have started to take cake decorating more seriously over the last few years. It all started when a friend asked me to make the cake for her wedding in May 2010. In the 9 months or so leading up to the wedding I started buying cake decorating books and
looking online, practicing my piping and sugar paste skills and soon I was hooked, taking any opportunity to try out a new technique or recipe.

From September 2010 to June 2011 I completed a cake decorating course at Thames Valley University and make cakes for friends and family at any given opportunity.

Thanks and I hope you enjoy the blog.

Jane

Sunday 31 July 2011

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