Hello again!
Well I am in a great mood! Thanks to one particular reader :D Thank you for your lovely comment Hannah :D It is so reassuring to know that someone actually appreciates my blog.
Tobias is in bed again so I thought I'd do something different for a change and post about one of my favourite hobbies: Cake Decorating. I love cake decorating! I'm not great at it but its something I'd love to study and get lots of practice in on. I have done a few cakes in the past. One for my brother's birthday and one for my sister's birthday but most of the others were just for the fun of it. I would love to do it more often but I hardly ever get the chance (special occasions are quite rare). I find I am more creative when I am given a theme to work with.
As you can see my best work was my brother's birthday cake. I used a photo of his motorbike and just tried to make it look as close to that as possible. I baked a chocolate square cake then drew a rough outline of his bike on a piece of paper, cut that out, and used it as a stencil to cut around. Once I had the shape of the bike I just used writing icing and those little edible silver balls to "colour it in". Then I put chocolate icing around the outside (just because it tasted amazing and I knew he'd love it!) :)
My sisters cake was just a rush job so it didn't turn out as nice as I would have liked but it still looked pretty good.
The blue one with the flower was done for my mum for mothers day. The flower is actually just a few marshmallows cut in half and stuck down with yellow icing in the middle.
The winnie the pooh cake was my first attempt at a character cake. I was really disapponted with the outcome because I had set my expectations way too high. But at least now I know what it is like working with icing trying to draw something.
The "Mums 'R' Us" cake was one that I made for my young mums group. It is decorated completely with marzipan except for the faces and writing. (thats writing icing). That was my first ever marzipan cake. I fell in love with marzipan after that!!
Anyways thanks for reading! :D
You know I've done a little bit of cake decorating myself. You can easily make your own version of "marzipan" or fondant by melting a lot of marshmellows in the microwave until the are melted and have risen high, then stir and add your colour (if necessary) then add bulk icing sugar and knead away until it has become dough. It can sometimes be more cost effective and it is easy to make large amounts and make all the same colour :-)
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