Elephant Cake

 This is my first challenging sculptered cake. I was asked to create a standing Indian Elephant cake. This is how I went about it. First a made a 2 large square chocolate sponges, theses were then stuck together with ganache. I then froze the cakes, to make them firmer for carving.
Once a little defrosted, I was able to start carving the basic shape, cutting aways parts very slowly to create the legs, ears and trunk. I decided the trunk would be down to give extra support to the cake.
Once my elephant was carved, it was case of buttercreaming all around, and once this was dry to add the decorations.
As it was an Indian Elephant I thought this would be a great opportunity to experiment with vibrant colours and decorations like a festival elephant.
I hope you like the end result.

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Love Birds

I have been meaning to try a birdcage cake for a while and with Valentines Day coming up, no better time to try. I actually made this cake with some left over fruitcake, although it can also be made with ordinary sponge.  3 x 6 inch cakes, the top tier should be rounded off to create top of the birdcage. I then mazipaned the whole cake and left to dry over night. Then was the icing sugar layer which I coloured a pale green colour, then finally to decorate I added all my other pre-maid roses, little petals and of course the love birds.
The tow large roses are on wired stems but otherwise all edible and the birds are completed edible made from sugarpaste.
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Engagement ring box Cake

Well I was set the challenge to make an Engagement Ring Box Cake for an Engagement party.  The cake was easy was enough using a hexagon cake tin, with the cushion effect just needed to taper the cake and round it off slightly. The bride to be decided on a simple vanilla sponge with buttercream and jam.
 The challenge for me was the lid for the box.... I decided this would be the only part that was not edible. Therefore the lid is made from cardboard base with icing laid on top. This still proved to be more challenging than I anticipated as the icing does not stick as well to the cardboard as it would cake, and working with it to do the rim etc proved to haves its own difficulties with potentially the icing cracking, lastly was the problem of holding it up against the cake and keeping it up during transportation to the venue, anyway manged to succeed against most of the dificulties, minor lid movements during transportation but was able to quickly fix again with some left over buttercream.
Hope you like. ..

Nursery Thank you Cake

Well this is a personal Thank you cake for my daughters Nursery. She is now ready for 'big school' and wanted to Thank the teachers for all their hard work. I have used the Nursery logo for the main part of the cake, then I wanted to add a few decorative items associated with 'nursery life' eg little paintings, teddy bear, ball, colouring pencils etc.
After the I took the photo's, I realised my mistake with the spelling 'Nursery' but I have corrected the final cake before giving to the teachers.
Hope you like!

 

Boat Cake

Well I was asked to do a boat cake for a colleague of my as she has a little cruiser along the Thames. This was probably my most challenging Cake to do and hadn't really worked too much before on carving and shaping cakes.
 I tackled it in a construction type manor, cutting the overall shape first, then carving into two, base of cake and top half. Next needed to shape the invidual halves by tapering in etc, sugarcrumb coat it and then cover in paste. Next stage was applying the filling for the cake before putting the two halves together, moulding and sealing the paste together, Then lastly addings the other structures to the cake.
Once this had all dried overnight all other decoartions could be added!

This one is a lemon based sponge with lemon buttercream filling with a little lemon curd.

 

Graduation Cake

Its Graduation Season, and my latest cake is a Graduation Hat! This time the cake is a lemon flavoured cake filling with bittercream and a little lemon curd. The cake is rounded slightly to make the hat shape.
The top of the cake has been added with the University of Bristol Logo, and the Graduate dressed in the University of Bristol robe, and hood colours.

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RUN DMC 30th Birthday Cake

This cake was requested as a RUN DMC cake- the American Hip Hop group from the lates 80's & 90's for a 30th Birthday.
Its a 2 tier cake with the top tier with a 'record' on it, and for those folks not aware of what a record is, it was before Downloads, CD's, and before Tapes!!
I have tried to make the Run DMC characters, although this has been my first attempt of figure modelling.
Hope you like!

 The RUN DMC firgure purposly have larger hands, feet and heard in proprtion to the rest of the body. Hands to extraggerate the rappers.

 

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