The Royal British Wedding Cupcakes

To celebrate the Royal British Wedding (and beacuse there was Friday bar at work!) I wanted to make some cupcakes for this special event.

The cupcakes have a bit of honey in them which gives it a nice sweet and different flavour. The icing is made of egg whites, sugar, vanilla sugar, sirup and water.

I painted the flag on top of marchmallows with my food writing pen color - this was the result:

Detroit Tigers Cake

Surprise cake for a birthday celebrated far away from home - for a true Tigers fan!

The orange cake is an Oreo cake with butter icing and fondant. The cap is a mud cake, which I normally choose for a cake that needs 'shaping' and also because it is so delicious :-)

Ladybird cake

I was asked to make a special cake for a special little girl's first birthday. I came up with a ladybird cake. The 'grass' is a chocolate cake with a coconot icing which I colored green. The ladybird is a chocolate mudcake. The body is baked in my new sportsball cake mould. The head is made in my new smallball cake mould. Then I covered the ladybird with chocolate icing and red fondant. The spots are made of black writing icing. I added M&M's flowers for a colorful finish and because it's always a great hit with the kids.  

Beach hut

Finally it was my own birthday and I wanted to make a cake that would look like the place I wish I could have spend my birthday - on a beach far away from the cold and all that snow!

I started to make 3 basic layers and a custard filling with a pineapple, rum and coconut jam which I colored blue.

I then made to round chocolate mud cakes. One of them was cut in to 4 small round ones. The other one I shaped and covered with marzipan for the beach.

I made the beach hut with Bounty chocolate cream filling and used the cut off bites to shape the roof.

I then use chocolate 'strips' to look like the 'wood' and added black icing and jelly beans to make a light chain around the hut.

I crushed some biscuits to look like sand, some toblerone to look like rocks and added some whipped cream to make waves. The mussels are Belgium chocolates. The 'palm tree' is a soft chocolate stick with a bit of fresh mint.

Rabbit

A year has pasted since I made the Hello Kitty cake for my Niece's birthday party. This year I asked her if she wanted her aunt to make her another cake and what it should look like. She told me that she would very much like a rabbit cake because she really likes the animal. She then started to draw how the eyes and mouth should look like. I told her I would do my best. The eyes are inspired by 'My little pet shop'.

First I made 2 round chocolate mud cakes which I cut in half.

I then made a chocolate cake with coconut icing colored green to look like grass. I cut a hole in the middle of the grass and started to 'build' the body of the rabbit with the chocolate mud cake which I put together with milk chocolate cream filling.

I then cut of a piece from the last half of the chocolate mud cake to make the tail. The ears are made of melted marshmallows put on an edible 'string' and attached with a small toothpick. Finally I covered the hole cake with chocolate cream and finely grated milk chocolate to look like fur. The eyes and teeth are made of fondant and the nose is a red peanut M&M's.  

Telephone

I worked full time for 3 months during this summer and wanted to make my colleagues a cake for my last day at work. I decided to make a cake in the shape of the most important tool we work with. Guess what I worked with...

The base is a banana layered cake with a toblerone cream filling and a chocolate butter icing. The phone is made of chocolate mud cake covered with white fondant and M&M's with black icing. The cord of the phone is a piece of licorice which I twisted and attached with black icing.

Softball

Can you make a Softball cake? Of course was my answer, but I didn't even know what it looked like - but Google is my friend ;-)

Again I decided to make 2 different chocolate cakes. The grass is a coconut colored icing. The softball itself is made in my princess dress mould (I love it it is so versatile!) I only needed a small portion in the shape of a ball but I found that it worked quite well. I then put chocolate butter icing on it before covering it with white fondant and making the stitching.