Tall Cake

This one was fun! Two 20cm round cakes, one white chocolate, one chocolate mud, stacked on top of one another to make one tall cake. Covering it and getting it smooth was HARD! Note to self: Search YouTube for How to video on covering a tall cake!

Allira is Lia's dance teacher and the Starling on top is the logo for her dance academy.

I shouldn't even be putting this photo up because it's completely out of focus, but I am anyway, just so you get the idea. If anyone from Allira's party is reading this can you please send me a better photo so I can put it up here!

Golf Ball Cake

I love when I finish a cake, step back and think 'I made that'. I make all my cakes from scratch and I'm proud of it.

Nana nana nana nana

Cars

When I was asked to do a McQueen cake, I thought to myself noooo not another little red car! I had seen an awesome Cars themed cake on YouTube/Flickr so I suggested that instead of doing a cake in the shape of McQueen, I use that idea and do a scene with McQueen and Tow Mater. It turned out just how I imagined.

I used buttercream under the fondant on this one and I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to get a smooth finish, I never would have achieved that a few months ago, practice makes perfect (or at least better than before!)

Tastes and Transformers

This week I was so excited to be invited to go to Tastes of Rutherglen with a friend. I haven't been since my hens day nearly five years ago and it's much more of an event now, run a lot like the Winery Walkabout but with more of an emphasis on food and the whole culinary experience.

The Transformers cake all came together really well, I wasn't very imaginative with this one, I just used a picture off the internet for inspiration and the picture on top is an edible image. They asked for it to be wheat-free and I just used my normal recipe but with gluten-free flours and an extra egg, Shane ate the bit I cut off to level it and it met with his approval, he said you could hardly tell the difference. I did a test run a couple of weeks ago and got a message from my friend's mum, who has tried a few gluten-free cakes, saying it was easily the nicest she's had.

I really need a good camera, this photo was taken with my phone.