A sweet little boy called Noah recently turned one, and it was my priviledge to make his cake. Which had to travel a good 400 km’s to reach it’s destination, but i’m glad to say that it did.
A 2 tier cake. Bottom layer rich chocolate with buttercream frosting and the top layer simple vanilla bean with vanilla bean frosting.
Winnie The Pooh, his hunny pot and presents are all made from sugarpaste.
You have to admit – he’s very cute!
This cake was requested by my client for her friends surprise 30th birthday party. She was very specific. The cake had to be white, with this exact shade of blue, be decorated with dots and also have carnations on it as these are her friend’s favourite flowers.
I was a bit nervous that I would not be able to match up the blues correctly, but I did, and this was the outcome.
Instead of one large carnation on top of the cake, I did 5 smaller ones and clustered them together.
A simple design, but quite lovely. Oh, the cake was Dark Chocolate with Vanilla Bean Buttercream Frosting.
One of the cakes I’ve made in the last couple of weeks was this Baby Shower Cake.
It was a surprise gift to the mom-to-be, and my client and I kinda had an idea of what she wanted, but we also wanted it to be a surprise. So we used the decor for the baby shower as a starting point, and went from there.
And this was the result. A vanilla sponge with caramel and buttercream frosting, covered with sugarpaste.
The sleeping teddy ontop of the cake tied in with not only the decor of the shower, but also of the baby’s room.
Because it was for a boy, we decided on the blue sugarpaste. And can anyone resist the cuteness of a baby’s foot? Hence the footprints around the side of the cake.
I love how this cake turned out – so gorgeous but oh so simple
I had complete carte blanche for this cake.
The specs were: My mum is very OTT and loves bling, so have a ball (which I did). Not too over the top, but classy and fun.
Again, my vanilla sponge with caramel filling, covered in buttercream & then sugarpaste.
A silver shoe completes the look, together with a few blingie balls round the bottom edge of the cake.
And the clients response? ‘You are amazing – you cake is INCREDIBLE! Thank you (again) for your awesomeness’.
A happy client, i’d say.
My daughter turned 13 way back in April, but life has just been too hectic to actually celebrate it properly. However last week she had a *real* disco, and she requested a 2 tier stripey/dotty cake. She told me it had to have purple in it and had to be vanilla sponge with caramel filling.
So this is what I created for her:
I loved it.
She loved it.
I had *so* much fun decorating this cake. Deciding on the different colour purples to use. The thickness of the stripes. The size of the balls. And there was even a surprise element – once it was cut it was purple! Much excitement.
I loved everything about this cake 
One of my recent bakes was for a Jungle Safari Cake. The brief was simple – a green cake featuring a crocodile, lion and snake (as these were the birthday girl’s favourite wild animals) and just her name on top there were very big and jungleish candles to go on top.
So that is what they got – a vanilla bean cake with caramel & vanilla bean buttercream filling, with a sugarpaste covering. And a few wild animals.
The bashful snake and loveable lion.
And my favourite, Ellie Elephant.
Cupcakes accompanied the order, as did Snake Sugar Cookies.
Just the perfect accompaniments to a little girls 6th Jungle Safari party!
One of my favourite clients ordered a 3D Dinosaur Cake from me. I was a bit hesitant, having never done a carved cake before, but I knew that I could not let this little guy down.
And I don’t think I did. I must admit to finding the instructions on how to carve the cake over here, which really did help alot.
I didn’t want to do the ‘traditional’ green dino, so opted for a bright turquoise together with orange spikes. I think the colour combination is pretty awesome actually!
I then also made some iced Sugar Cookies to be given away as party favours. They’re pretty cute too i think.
I have to be completely honest and say that this was by far the easiest themed birthday cake I have made to date. And I loved every minute of it.
I have seen these cakes on various baking blogs and finally I am the proud owner of one. I just think that they are gorgeous, and the perfect cake for a number of celebrations. You can use any cake recipe you have, just make sure that the cakes are cooked through and they are different sizes.
I received an order for a birthday cake for a friend – and I decided that I was going to try out my pan. Well, I’m not disappointed. I love how it turned out. I simply covered the bottom half with embossed fondant, and the decorated the top half by using the popular ‘rose swirl’ introduced to us by I am Baker not so long ago.
Then added a few flowers, turquoise sugar pearls and a pink heart.
Simple, but classy. Just like my friend
Image from hereI thought I would share a few baker’s ‘tips & tricks’ – to make your baking just that little bit easier.
Happy Baking. Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions!
Oh my goodness – how much fun did I have with this cake?
I have to confess the idea was not mine. I did however tweak and fiddle it somewhat and am completely thrilled with the outcome – as was my 9 yr old client!
It was was very simple to put together. The cake itself was my favourite Vanilla sponge and the layers on each tier were sandwiched together with Vanilla Buttercream & Caramel. All the embellishments were made a couple of weeks prior to the cake, simply using cutters and sugar paste.
And look what we ended up with?
Pretty cool dude
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