My brother Aris has a passion for competitive skeet shooting, hunting, cooking, his family and appreciates the bizarre. So, what to make for his 40th birthday cake? Maybe a present with stars bursting out of the top with an abundance of happiness…um, nope. How about a big 4-0… errr, nope.
Dead animal? Perfect!
It seems like ages since I’ve done a wedding cake, lately all my orders have been for children’s cakes – which I love doing – but I’ve missed the towering tiers of a wedding cake!
Chocolate fudge cake soaked in Contreau syrup and filled with a luxury chocolate ganache was the basis for this little number…
My dear friend Georgia christened her youngest and I wanted to create something soft and pretty, just like scrumptious little Ellie! Hand sculpted flowers and a full sugar bow finish off this design.
The teddy has a styrofoam core – her limbs and clothes are made from sugar. The trickiest part about dressing her was , believe it or not, the bow on her head! It was teeny beeny!
This cake was created to celebrate the christening of a sweet little boy, Panayioti. The cake has a hand made gumpaste teddy atop the top tier and fondant stars. Stripes feature on the bottom tier and his name is made from fondant blocks – placed on the board.
Two tiers of chocolate fudge cake, filled with dark chocoalte ganache and covered with rolled fondant.
I was so caught up in getting my daughter’s 1st birthday celebration ready that I literally left decorating her cake until the last minute. Yes well, how the heck did that happen??
So I found myself at 11.30pm whipping this little number up – all I knew was that I was going to do something in a chocolate and pink colour scheme so I started to knead fondant and before I knew it – voila! Julia’s 1st Birthday cake was done.
I guess sometimes it pays not to over think a cake design.. maybe I was just lucky with this one!!
