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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