I'm on a roll!

And with Winnie the Pooh!!! (very popular it seems!).

This one I must say, is very decadent..
Chocolate sponge with more than 1kg of lovely dark chocolate ganache (yum-yum). Fondant icing as well as buttercream!

It looks deceivingly simple - but it took me more than 4 hours to make! Excluding baking time!

My First.....

........cake sold for money!!!

So .... I've planned my cake baking step-by-step. First make some ganache, as it needs to set overnight. Then bake the cake, let it cool, apply syrup, and then apply the ganache. Let set again and then decorate. All down to the minute. Planning 101. TYPICAL engineer like my sis will say!

Helps a whole lot when someone orders a cake at the last minute!
I couldn't say no to my first order.....so after a very late night and some hysterics, I produced this:
A vanilla sponge cake with white chocolate ganache and fondant as well as buttercream icing - sjoe!

I want ooohhs and aahhs hey!

My First "Practice"

Well, I've never worked with fondant icing before - oooops.

What to do?? What to do??
Luckily my stepdaughter celebrated her birthday in August - so I decided to do my first parctise run with fondant.
NOBODY told me however that putting fondant on a small cake is MUCH more difficult that putting fondant on a large one (or that is my finding.....maybe my fingers are to fat??)

Luckily my stepdaughter thought it VERY pretty - although I could see all the mistakes!

Here's some pics...

Oh well - some more practise is needed!

So........what have I done???

Oh golly gosh!!!

I've started a cake baking business. Me.....an engineer........cake baking???!!!

Well, I've had my baby a bit more than a year ago - and she changed my life!! So much so that I quit my corporate career to be able to spend afternoons with her.
And now - I'm baking cakes!! Wish me luck!!