| Play School Cake |
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Charlottes 2nd Birthday cake. I made it showing her favourite Tv show Play School. I am still getting used to working with fondant to create figures. |
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| A Confirmation Cake |
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A Confirmation cake for my Church with matching cupcakes. |
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| Hall family Crest cake |
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This was my fathers 70th Birthday cake. It has the Hall family crest on it and a little Anglican Priest as he had to retire on his 70th Birthday! He is still working as a Locum at a parish on the other side of Brisbane. I miss him....he is such a fantastic Priest! |
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| Brian's 40th Birthday Cake |
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This was my first attempt at working with chocolate decorations!! I still have a lot to learn! I am sure it gets easier with practice! |
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| Little Bootie Baptism Cake |
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This was made for my nephew Henry Hall. I bought a bootie cutter for the little booties on top of this Baptism cake. I also experimented by putting swavoski crystals on the front of the cake. It is effective but very time consuming.
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| Baptism Cupcakes |
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I made these simple cupcakes to match the baptism cake. I cut out fondant circles and piped on a white cross. Then I brushed silver powder mixed sith Vodka ontop of the cross. |
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| A Pirate 18th Birthday Cake |
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I had fun making this cake. The base is a chocolate mud cake and the pirate ship was made with caramel mud cake. They were covered with ganache and then fondant. the board is also covered with fondant. The little figures were tricky to make. Everything is made of fondant except for the wooden sticks to hold up the fondant sails. |
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| A Pirate and Ninga made out of fondant |
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A close up of the pirate and Ninja fondant people. The rope and sails are made out of fondant. I used brown food colouring to paint on the wooden highlights. |
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| A top view of the pirate ship |
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To make the water effect in the fondant I rolled the fondant into a long tube and then placed dots of the blue colouring along the fondant. I then carefully rolled the colour into the fondant to get the desired effect. I cut the waves free hand our of a darker coloured fondant and the used a star cutter to cut the stars. I also had some little silver fish which I cut using a heart shape cutter and then manipulated it into a fish shape. |
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| Disco Ball and Buddy Holly Cake |
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I made this cake for a friend of mine turning 60. I had to go shopping online and buy the round sherical cake tin and edible glitter from a cake secorating supply shop in Melbourne. It is rather difficult to get supplys in Brisbane and it often means going to a lot of shops to get all the right colours etc. I drew and cut Buddy Holly and the guitars using an edible ink pen. Then I had to wait for the icing to dry and could paint on the detail. I made the base of the dukebox fist and then waited it to dry. I then manipulated fondant shapes to get the desired look and piped on the extra detail. I then used a vodka and silver powder to brush on the final detail. The black squares were difficult as I used a ruler to measure them all. However, when I lifted the fondant squares to ashere to the cake they were prone to moving out of shape. It is a quite difficult to get them to stay in the exact shape. I used a nuber cutter to cut out the 60 numerals and rolled red fondant to make the balls. It is an art to make sure that they are all the same size! I used black powder to colour the fondant. However, I learnt an important lesson! If you colour white fondant black with powder you need to leave the fondant to rest overnight as it tends to weep. If you cover it straight away you will return in the morning to find moisture spots. If you leave over night and kneed again in the morning the colour looks fine. I prefer to use Bakles icing as it is mush easier to use than Cake Art! |
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| Disco Ball |
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I made a cake using a spherical cake tin. I covered the cake with black fondant and let it dry overnight. I then experimented with the white small square tiles. I left some to dry overnight and also painted them silver. They were not used on the cake because they needed to be moist to manipulate them over the sperical cake. The silver tiles did not show up the edible glitter. The photo does not do the cake justice as they looked more effective in real life. The light sparkled off the edible glitter and it really looked fantastic. The little squares were quite difficult to place and some did move out of shape. I worked into the early hours of the morning but I would certainly perfect this technique if I make another one! I purchased the edible glitter online as I was not able to find a place that sold it in Brisbane! I am not sure why but the cake decorating supply stiores stock limited colours and cake glitters etc. I paid $20.00 for the glitter! $10.00 for the glitter and $10.00 for express postage!!!!! |
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| Achor Cake |
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I made this cake for my parents Achor CD Launch. I made the wooden blocks out of fondant and then decorated the letters. I used a cutter for the butterfly and decorated with blue fondant and painted the black with a paintbrush. It was a shocolate mud cake and it was covered with gananche and fondant. |
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