Burlesque cake for Jenny's surprise party!

ISLAND LIFE!!

Square cake cover in Regalice baby blue sugarpaste

Add a strip of Teddy Bear brown sugarpaste

Trace Grace's ace shape onto chocolate Sugarpaste

Build up her lovely curves

Add strips of red and yellow for top and bandages

Make mic from black Sugarpaste and draw in lead using sugar art pen

Continue line along the floor

Completed cake!!

Me rather chuffed with the result!

Birthday girl!

May the forks be with you!

Darth is evil inside and out!

NYC subway train cake

I made this cake for Maria’s birthday celebrations this past weekend. I used a silicone square cake tin and bake one vanilla sponge and one chocolate sponge using doubled up quantities of the sponge cake recipe from the side of the Silverspoon sugar bag http://www.silverspoon.co.uk/home/recipes/15/fairy-cakes (it’s the most reliable recipe ever!). Once the cakes had cooled I cut them in half to make long narrow rectangles. I then stacked three layers on top of one another and ‘glued’ in place with butter cream. I then cut the final rectangle in half and put ‘glued’ those in place to make the cake a longer more train carriage shape. I then covered the whole thing in butter cream and covered the whole cake in ready rolled white icing to create my canvas.

To decorate I used PME edible lustre spray in silver for the main body of the train. I cut a stencil to help me mark out the graffiti lettering. I then used the PME edible lustre spray in red, pink and blue to do the graffiti. The outlines are painted using Wiltons black liquid icing colour. To finish I painted the windows and details in using edible tints and rejuvenator liquid. This was so much fun to make and it made the birthday girl very happy (as you can see!) 

Jack Daniels cake

I made this cake in May 2011 for a funeral. The cake was a chocolate sponge laced with a lot of Jack Daniels. The bottle is covered in chocolate butter cream. The label is black ready to roll icing and I painted the lettering on using white edible tint and rejuvenator liquid.  

C is for...

Then in January 2011 I decided to make this to bring to a dinner at my friend’s house…

Red velvet cake, pink butter cream, pink icing, liquorice pubes, marshmallow tampon and cake fake blood!!