Spiderman birthday cake

This is what I was busy completing for this weekend, a lovely Spiderman cake. Thank goodness I had the foresight to make the figurines two weeks ago, hot and humid weather + a very hectic schedule gave me very little time to do anymore figurines. This is a super moist choc mud cake with choc buttercream icing, the walls of the cake were a mixture of white choc fondant and Nestle milk chocolate (yum). The only thing not edible were the 2 cars I popped on the board at the last minute. I had a scary moment the night before where the hot weather played havoc with my milk choc walls, they kept going soft and wanting to break yikes!!! Thankfully the weather cooled down and I was able to complete the walls and cake, even if it was at 1.30am in the morning :-(

I made the spider webs from melted white chocolate, a template, some grease proof paper and a piping tip. Once they were dry I just peeled them off and "glued" them to the cake using more chocolate. Did I mention that the cake weighed a tonne? I nearly killed my back carrying it to the car!!

Castle cake

Its been another very busy weekend with 3 cakes completed by today. This lovely castle cake was for a very good friend of mine who's daughter just turned 1. Although very time consuming (I was up till 11pm last night finishing it off) it was a fantastic cake to make. I love the rabbit and frog Prince the most, they look adorable. The cake was just plain butter cake with strawberry buttercream frosting and covered in white choc fondant.

Football cake

This weekend I also completed a footy cake for a 6 yr old boy, he's an avid Kangaroo supporter so I made the cake based on the footy field with 2 players. The cake was chocolate mud with chocolate buttercream icing, yummmmmmm.

Teletubbies cake

Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa & Po, yes I know ALL their names lol Although not one of my favourite TV shows (the non talking annoys me) it was a fun cake to make. The figurines took me ages to make and they were quite difficult to make, well not their bodies, just their faces were a bit tricky but I managed in the end. My favourite character was the baby sun, I made him with flower modelling paste using a template I drew on some cardstock and used edible colour pastes, water and chalks to draw his face.

Baked lemon cheescake for 40th and Babushka cake

I loved doing this cute mini Babushka cake, its actually a gift for a friend who loves Babuska dolls. Cake is just simple butter cake with toffee buttercream icing, nothing flash but I know its a safe bet that my friend will like it ;-) I handpainted all the details onto the fondant with edible paste and my cake paint brushes.

This weekend I completed yet another baked cheesecake, this time the flavour was lemon with lemon white choc panels. I loved the colour combination of yellow, pink and orange, very spring like. Time for a breather, I am bushed!

Spongebob and friends cake

The 3rd cake for this weekend was this gorgeous Spongebob cake. I had so much fun making him, my fav being Spongebob, Squidward and Gary the snail. A lot of work went into this cake, all up I spent every day for the past two weeks doing all the figurines. The cake consisted of a 12' square marble chocolate cake filled with white choc buttercream while the pineapple was a white choc mud cake. The "sand" around the cake is royal icing mixed with brown caster sugar.

Close up of Spongebob, isn't he cute? I wanted him to hold the number 6 (also fondant) which was a bit tricky because the number kept falling over before the "sand" had time to dry.

Close up of Patrick starfish, he too was fun to make, everything once again is made from fondant.

Now to relax and put my feet up for a few days till my next request is due.

Elmo birthday cake

This was my 2nd cake completed for this weekend, the lovely Elmo. Its a 10" round double stacked and shaped coconut butter cake filled with coconut buttercream icing. I love Elmo but piping his fur was not so fun, it took me almost 3 hrs to complete his fur, by then my hand was cramping up lol Did I mention it took 2 kgs of icing and 2 x pots of Wilton red to make his fur? Yikes!! His eyes and nose are made from fondant and was the easiest part of the cake. I also had a hairy time transfering the cake onto the cakeboard without getting red icing everywhere, but it got done in the end.