Recent Cake projects

Here is a bunch of cake projects I have made over the last few months.

Purse Cake

This is my latest cake I made for my Nieces 5th Birthday. I found this really easy tutorial here at Jessicakes blog.

Titans Cake

This cake I made for a family member who was turning 21, my sister helped me out with this one since I had 3 cakes to make over one weekend.

Dog Cake

This cake was for my friends sons 1st Birthday, the fondant dog topper is suppose to look like his pet dog.

3 Tier Cake

I love the colours of this 3 tier cake I made for a joint childrens party.

Skylander Cake

This cake was for a 5th Birthday for a little boy who loves the Skylander video game.

Yellow Ruffle Cake

I made this yellow ruffle cake for my Nieces 6th birthday, the cake topper is made from coloured paper and a butterfly all from the $2 shop, easy and cheap to make.

Fondant Safari Animal 

I made these cute little animal cake toppers for a little boys birthday, his mum made the cake for these to go on top.

Fondant Frangipanis

30 Frangipani fondant flowers for a a friends wedding cake.

If you would I to know how I made all these cakes leave me a comment and I'll be happy to get back to you.

21st Birthday Cake

I made this cake for two of my friends 21st Birthdays. They wanted to have them both on the cake, one doing the Pukana and the other was suppose to be hanging up the washing but I found it really hard to make the figures standing up so I made her sitting down by the washing line with a bunch of book. I think it turned out really great but will make sure I use a better glue next time cause the heads and eyes were starting to fall off at the end of the night. I doubled my Chocolate Cake Recipe for the cake then covered it in my Favourite Ganache recipe from Planet Cake.

Chocolate Ganache

Adapted From Planet Cake.

300g Nestle Dark Chocolate

150mls Cream

Place chocolate and cream in a bowl and melt in the microwave for 1 minute stir then place back in the microwave again for 30 seconds until chocolate has melted. Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes or until firm and cooled. Once cooled its ready to use.

Ruffled Princess Tiara Cake

This is my latest cake a Princess Tiara cake, I usually cover my cakes in fondant but I wanted to try the Ruffled technique with Swiss meringue buttercream, which you can find the recipe here in one of my other posts.

I got the idea for the tiara from one of my searches on Pinterest. The tiara's made from fondant mixed with Wiltons gum-tex so it would dry nice and hard.

The ruffled flowers are also made from fondant and gum-tex.

Angry Birds Cake

Heres the second cake I made this weekend an Angry Birds cake. The client also ask if I could make 10 cupcake toppers and for the cake to be neapolitan colors and flavour. I havent found the perfect vanilla cake recipe yet so I heard you can doctor up cake mixes with intant pudding so thought I'll give it a go. The cakes turned out nice and moist and a little denser then a usual cake mix. So if you want to give it a go just buy Betty Crockers cake mix and instant pudding in same flavour. I forgot to take a photo of all the flavours I used I only took a photo of the chocolate flavour Yummy.

Jersey Shore Cake

I had two cake orders this weekend this was the 1st cake a Jersey Shore cake with a silver cross necklace. I made my fav choc cake recipe then covered and filled with ganache.

Leopard Print Cake

The customer asked for a Leopard Print cake so I was looking on the web thinking of all the different ways I could do this there was three ways I was thinking if doing it 1) cut out bits of black fondant and roll them into the nude colour fondant 2) airbrush the design, I dont own a airbrush machine so that ones out or 3) Hand paint it on the cake. So I went with number 3 hand paint it. So i'd been on youtube looking at all the tutorials and got started 1st dilemma I didnt make the black foodcolour paint dark enough so did two coats of that 2nd my fondant I covered the cake with was going sticky and wet from the cold cake underneath so it wasnt looking to good at one point, so after it all dryed I think it turned out ok.

Blues Clues Cake

Heres one of my recent cakes I made for a little girl who was turning five and loved Blues Clues. All figurines are made from fondant mixed with Wilton Gum-Tex so they dry nice and hard, its a Moist chocolate cake covered in Ganache then fondant. I found a great tutorial on youtube to make Blues Clues.

High Heel cupcakes

I made these chocolate cupcakes for a Hens party. I used a chocolate high heel mold to get the shape of the high heel by pushing fondant into the mold, you need to dust mold with cornflour first to make sure it comes out with ease.

Maori Design Cupcakes

I made 60 Vanilla and Chocolate cupcakes for Massey Universitys Maori Orientation day. I found a stamp in the craft isle at the warehouse and used that to push into the fondant to get that design.

My Recent Cakes

Haven't Been on here for a long time, Here is some of my recent projects.

Spider man and Princess cake,

Jim Beam Bottle cake.

Bow cake.

Cocktail Cake.

Treasure Chest cake.

Export Gold Bottle cake.

Fairy House cake.

Giant Cupcake cake

I made this cake for my BFF daughters 1st Birthday I got the idea from here Andrea's SweetCakes' photostream  check her out she makes some amazing cakes. The cake is chocolate cake then crumb coated in buttercream then covered with fondant. The lollypops and cherry is also made from fondant, I made them a few days before so they really dry out.

Golf Cake

This is a cake I made for my friends Nans 80th Birthday, Shes really into Golf and Flowers. Its a chocolate cake covered in chocolate buttercream then covered with fondant, this is the first time ive used fondant to cover a cake.

Baby shower cake's

I have made two babyshower cakes over the last month for my friends who are both having boys.

White Chocolate Mudcake

 Cake pops

 Three layer Chocolate cake with chocolate butter Icing.

High Heel Cake

It was my Nieces 3rd Birthday and she it just obsessed with High heel shoes, so it was only right to make her a high heel cake. I made the cake toppers with fondant icing and a white chocolate mud cake for the cake.

White Chocolate Mudcake
AWW Mini Cookbooks "Cafe Cakes" recipe:

250gm butter, chopped
150gm white choc., chopped coarsely
2 cups caster sugar
1 cup milk
1 1/2 cups plain flour
1/2 cup self raising flour
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs, beaten lightly

White Chocolate Grenache: 1/2 cup cream & 300grm white choc.

20cm round tin, gread & line base & sides
Combine butter, choc., sugar & milk in med. saucepan stir over low heat, without boiling, until smooth. Transfer mix to large bowl & cool 15 min.
Preheat oven to 160 [mod. slow oven] No fan if possible!
Whisk sifted flour into mix, then vanilla & eggs. Pour mix into pan & bake slow oven for 1 hr., cover pan with foil bake about 45 min.
Stand cake in pan 30min. turn onto wire rack to cool. Spread top & sides with grenache.
Grenache, bring cream to boil. pour over chocolate, stir till melts. Cover refridge stirring occaisionally about 30 min. or until spreadable. Serves 12