Plain sponge with jam and butter-cream filling.
My Daughter's 2nd Birthday Cake......
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My Daughter is OBSESSED with the Shrek films so it only seemed fitting that this years birthday cake would take on a shrek theme.
Plain sponge with jam and butter-cream filling.
Plain sponge with jam and butter-cream filling.
Chocolate indulgence cake
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Chocolate fudge cake decorated with white and milk chocolate finger biscuits, went slightly wrong but tasted damn good!!
Lemon Cupcakes
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This was a vanilla cupcake recipe, but instead of using vanilla flavouring i used lemon flavouring and then filled the cupcakes with lemon curd and topped them with lemon flavour frosting. Delicious!
My Daughter helped with the decorating!
My Daughter helped with the decorating!
Creme Brulee Cupcakes
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I held a poll at work for the next cupcake flavour to try and Creme Brullee was the most popular choice.
They didn't look the neatest, or most eye-catching of cupcakes but they did taste very accurate to creme brulee!
I can't find the recipe I used right now so I will add it in later.
They didn't look the neatest, or most eye-catching of cupcakes but they did taste very accurate to creme brulee!
I can't find the recipe I used right now so I will add it in later.
Making my own wire topper
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I decided to have a go at making my own wire cake topper with floristry wire and foam letters/stars
What I needed:
1 Pack florist wire
1 Food grade posy pick
pack of foam letters/stars
small amount of fondant/sugarpaste
Measure your length of wire to the desired height you would like for your topper and cut with wire cutters or strong scissors. Then decide how many letters/numbers/shapes you need/want.
I started out by threading the foam letters onto the wire, but this made it look a bit messy and I was in danger of putting little holes in the letters, an idea came to me like an epiphany lol and I realised the foam letters where actually stickers so I just peeled off the backing slightly, stuck the wire to the adhesive strip and re-attached the backing - looked lots better and held in place perfectly.
The tricky part was getting them all aligned and into the posy pick which I filled with a bit of fondant without the letters getting jumbled up.
The finished product, not bad for a first attempt at a wire topper I didn't think :-)
What I needed:
1 Pack florist wire
1 Food grade posy pick
pack of foam letters/stars
small amount of fondant/sugarpaste
Measure your length of wire to the desired height you would like for your topper and cut with wire cutters or strong scissors. Then decide how many letters/numbers/shapes you need/want.
I started out by threading the foam letters onto the wire, but this made it look a bit messy and I was in danger of putting little holes in the letters, an idea came to me like an epiphany lol and I realised the foam letters where actually stickers so I just peeled off the backing slightly, stuck the wire to the adhesive strip and re-attached the backing - looked lots better and held in place perfectly.
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| Threading the foam through the wire |
My Mum's 60th Birthday Cake
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My Mum was turning 60 and on of my Aunts decided to throw her a surprise party! So I offered to make the cake.
I decided on a 2 tier, as I was having to transport it from South Yorkshire to Scotland so anything bigger and I don't know how I'd have managed it.
Bottom tier was fruit cake, the same recipe as the fruit cake tier from my daughter's christening cake with an extra ingredient of cranberries.
I decided on a 2 tier, as I was having to transport it from South Yorkshire to Scotland so anything bigger and I don't know how I'd have managed it.
Bottom tier was fruit cake, the same recipe as the fruit cake tier from my daughter's christening cake with an extra ingredient of cranberries.
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| Wet ingredients, butter, sugar, treacle, eggs. |
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| Mixing in the fruit and the spiced flour |
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| Fresh out of the oven |
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| Cooled and levelled ready for marzipan |
Once the cake was cooled and levelled I then rolled out a sheet of marzipan and covered it with it. I left the cake for 24 hours before covering with the fondant icing.
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| Covered with Marzipan |
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| Covered with marzipan and fondant |
Put that cake to one side and started on the top tier. Madeira cake (plain sponge). I had to make 2 of this tier as the 1st one went soooo wrong, It bowed in the middle and then was still liquid inside - even though I had done the skewer test etc very weird! Ended up binning it and starting again.
Recipe I used was: 5 eggs, 315g self raising flour, 155g plain flour, 315g butter/soft margarine, 315g caster sugar, takes an hour to cook.
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| Baked, cooled, levelled, halved, filled with jam and butter-cream |
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| Covered with fondant |
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| Rolled out the coloured icing and cut circles our with circle cutters |
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| Rolled out the coloured icing and then cut into equal strips with my ribbon cutter and a ruler |
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| The finished article :-) |
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