Super Mario Cake

Hi Cake Friends!

I made a Super Mario cake last month for a 4 year old boy's birthday party! I really enjoyed making this, although I did end up with the Super Mario theme in my head all day long!

The figures are made of plastic, I couldn't make them out of sugarpaste! Not yet anyway!

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Despicable Me Minion Cake!

Hi Cake Friends!

Here is a Despicable Me minion cake!

I had such fun making this cake, which I actually made for a good friends 30th birthday. I'm afraid I don't have loads of 'making of' pictures, but I can show you how I built it up.

Firstly I baked 3, 6" round cakes. And I have a ball pan (ball cake tin) so I baked 1 half of this to give me a dome for his head. Here is a picture of the cakes stacked up, although at this stage I had not stuck any of it together with buttercream, I was just checking it was going to be the right size! I had printed off a picture of a minion and wanted the cake to be roughly the same size as my picture, because then I would have a 'blueprint' to work from.

I put this on my cake board and then used buttercream to stick all the layers together. Before I put the round dome on top I pushed 3 dowels into the cake to give it support. I then put the done on top and covered the whole thing in a crumb coat of buttercream.

The next stage was putting one layer of yellow sugarpaste over the whole thing, which did give me a bit of a heart attack as I had to roll out such a large amount and I was so scared it was going to rip!

But it was OK! Here is a picture with the first layer, and a small part of the detail started.

Then I just slowly built up all the details of the cake using my picture as guide. My friends sister (who had requested the cake) had asked for the minion to be holding a banana which is why I added in that detail.

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Cake International London 2013

Hi Cake Friends!

So last weekend I went to Cake International in London, and it was absolutely amazing to see so many stunning cakes! I was truly inspired and really hope that one day I will enter a cake into one of the competition categories!

I have created an album of all the pictures I took on my facebook page, here is the link.

If you have not been then make sure you get yourself there next year! There are so many stalls selling amazing cake products, and you can go to different sessions on various aspects of cake making and decorating! It's really good fun and I totally recommend it!

I have finally started my own business!

Hello everyone!

I know I have not been here for a while, again, but I do have an excuse! I have moved house, and have finally started my own business!

I have my own page now on facebook, so please pop over and give it a like:

https://www.facebook.com/CustomCakeStudio

Hope to see you all there! :-)

Carrie

Spotty Dog Cake

Hi cake friends!

In my last post I showed you a Dog's Head Cake which I had made for a friend, the head being a logo he had invented. This cake was for a different friend who adores dogs!

Now, normally I like to design my own cakes but my Mum gave me a brilliant book called 'Perfect Party Cakes Made Easy' by Carol Deacon, and when I saw the Spotty Dog in this book I knew I had to make it for my friend.

The only change that I really made was that I made it much bigger than the recipe in the book suggested.

Needless to say my friend loved it! And I enjoyed building up all the layers in the face to create this cute dog. It has taught me quite a lot and has definitely inspired me for future projects!

Dog head cake!

Hi cake friends!

This cake was made for a friends birthday, not because they loved dogs, but because this was a logo that they had created.

I used rice krispie treats to make the the head, so that I could build up the features of the face, and covered it in chocolate icing which tasted delicious!

You may notice that the eyes were slightly wonky, but this was honestly part of the design!

Bed Cake!

Hi cake friends!

This cake was for two friends who were holding a joint birthday party. The theme was 'pyjama party' so I decided to make a cake shaped like a bed!

I made a chocolate sponge cake and covered it in white sugrapaste. I then used chocolate rice krispie squares to build a frame at either end of the cake, and curly wurlys for the frame on either side.

More sugarpaste was used to make the pillows and the quilt! And I used red piped icing for the detail work. One friend loves horses, and the other does reiki massages so the symbol is a reiki symbol!