I love decorating cakes as a hobby. I was asked by a close friend to make a number one cake for her friend’s baby. This is how I made it: I started by making a grey bear out of half flower paste and half roll out icing. This hardens better and is easier to model … Read more
Our son was 30 and he is an electrician by trade, so we decided this Electrician birthday cake was a good idea for a cake. I started by making the tools for the top of the cake. I made some pliers, a screwdriver and a plug. These were made out of half flower paste and half roll out … Read more
I started by making the cake topper which was a tree. I used a wooden skewer, placed this into my cake dummy and started winding wire around it and formed the branches of the tree. These were then covered in icing using fondant and flower paste until the tree was the design I wanted. It … Read more
This cake is for our granddaughter who is 2, she loves Raa Raa the noisy lion, so this is what I decided to make for her. I started by making the model lion so this had time to harden. First I made a cone shape in a mustard color. I then attached some white roll out icing … Read more
I was asked by a friend of mine to make a Fred Perry logo cake. I baked an 8” round sponge cake and when cold I filled with jam and butter cream and then sandwiched together and then covered the whole cake in butter cream and placed in the freezer for 10 min until hardened. I … Read more
I was asked to make a cake with a parrot on the top because her partner loved parrots. I started by making the parrot because it had to dry out in stages. I placed a wooden chop stick into a cake dummy and wrapped some wire round it to form the head and the tail of … Read more
My granddaughter was 1 year old, she love Oso the bear off the Disney channel. I decided to make her an Oso Cake. I baked a 10inch and a 8inch Madeira cake and sliced in half and filled with jam and butter cream icing. I then covered the cake board with a thin layer of … Read more
I baked this Manchester United Cake for a friend of mine for her grandson, his favorite football team is Man Utd. I started by making the football badge. I printed the picture off the net as a template. I used ½ flower paste ½ fondant and cut out the shape of the badge. This was … Read more
I made this fall basket cake for a school fundraiser this past fall. I baked 2 8-in round cakes. After doming and stacking them, I put the “dirty icing” coat on. I then used tip #48 to do the basket weave and tip #18 to make the rope border on the top and bottom. The … Read more
I made this Cheer leading cake for a little girl that loves cheer leading and was turning 12. The cake is 3 12-inch layers that she wanted half chocolate/half vanilla. After putting them together, I wrote “12 Cheers for Chat” on the side with tips #10 and #7. The rest is starred with tip #18, … Read more
I wanted to do a cake for a little fan of Firemen Sam but I wanted to do more than just the Fire truck so I thought of creating a scene wherein Fireman Sam is in action with his fire truck trying to control a house on fire. First of all I covered a large … Read more
My husband loves the Simpsons so I thought I’d make a Simpson Birthday Cake. I baked an 8″ sandwich cake filled with butter cream and jam, then covered with butter cream and then roll out icing. I then made Homer Simpson. I rolled out some white icing in an oval shape for the torso and … Read more