A lot of cakes!!

Soooo, on Monday this week I was looking forward to a relaxed weekend (after the crazy one with the jungle and Peter Rabbit cake and Peter Rabbit party).

After a while though I had three orders.....one for 5 cakes on Thursday and 2 on Saturday (+ cupcakes for the ones on Saturday).

This week I'm doing:

• Eid Mubarak (end of Ramadan celebration)
• Baby shower and
• A Strawberry Shortcake birthday cake.

     The Eid Mubarak order had a very tight budget and requested flowers on the cakes (the order was also confirmed 1 day before the delivery date). I feel that this was a bit of a rush job unfortunately, but I think it turned out OK.....and I made the flowers myself!!!

 

      For Saturday I had a baby shower order - luckily not toooo intricate. Bur yes - it had to serve 30 people, so my poor husband quickly had to make a plan how to transfer the fondant to the cake as my rolling pin is way to short for such a huge piece of fondant!

Luckily we had some pvc pipe in the garage, so after cutting and washing it - voila - works wonderful!!

 

     The other cake for Saturday was a Strawberry Shortcake one. The pic the parents of the birthday girl send me had a plastic Strawberry Shortcake doll on top - so I was quite relaxed........until I found that Strawberry Shortcake is UNATTAINABLE in South Africa at the moment. I called about 15 stores - without success.

So I had to model ms. Strawberry Shortcake (ieeee - I've only modelled animals before).

I made two dolls - the first one fell apart (jay - it looked awful!!!).

The second one was better - so it landed on the cake...

 

You can actually remove the hat!!!
No 'hat-hair' underneath!

No exact replica of Strawberry Shortcake - but I think it looks very nice.
I'll need to practise my sculpting skills if I want my sugar paste people to look exactly like the person they are representing!!











Well - we'll see what this weekend holds!!

Peter Rabbit

I had to do a Peter Rabbit cake for this weekend.....
The client called at the last minute to change what the cake was supposed to look like.

In the end I did a very simple cake...

My First 'Jungle' Cake

Soooooo....
I've been asked to do a jungle cake. Not an edible image one like the previous two, but one with sugarpaste 3D toppers!!!
Jay - I can start on something more challenging (on the other hand ... I'm scared to let my client down!!!).

I've started on Monday with the suager toppers (cake to be delivered on Saturday) to be able to 'do over' should I need to.
My first  attempt was some easy ladybugs...still without their dots yes!!!

After the ladybuds I did a tiger - which took me 1 and a half hours, but I think it came out great!!!

The end product wasn't as nice as I would have liked it - but at least the client was very happy......sjoe!!!!

I already have an order for exactly the same cake ..... jay ......thing are looking OK!!

Holds thumbs for me!!!