Sunday, June 3, 2012

Adventure Time Topsy Turvey Cake


Miss 16 wanted a Topsy Turvey cake for her birthday. After Googling many how tos I came up with this. Originally I had the cake just decorated in the stripes and spots but it was lacking something. The second layer set too close to the edge made the cake look heavy so made some characters from her favourite TV cartoon Adventure Time.
Cake is a very rich chocolate cake. I didn't have tins small enough for the top two layers so for middle layer used a large tinned fruit tin and a large tuna tin for the top. I lined these tins with several layers of baking paper and they worked well.

The bottom and middle layer were halved and a chocolate butter cream was spread between. Cake was also covered in the butter cream prior to putting the fondant on.

As cake was made a week earlier it was frozen which also helped in the cutting of the shapes as less crumbs. The taste of the cake wasn't affected by freezing.

If making again I would make the middle cake smaller and not to the edge and roll fondant thinner.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Mothers Day Cake.
As an avid follower of NZ Hottest home baker contest on TV I just had to enter a cake in their online cake photo contest. I didn't win but it was delicious to eat.
I used Alice's raspberry cupcake recipe found here. I Made it as a cake and also made it gluten free by substituting Bakels baking mix for the flour.
Iced with pink raspberry flavoured butter cream. It took alot of icing. After piping the roses, done with a Wiltons 2D nozzle I had to make a second batch of icing for the sides.



Sponged clouds using scalloped circle and using 
Pocket Silhouettes have layered the image on top.


Sunday, July 3, 2011

Engagement cake

A decadent chocolate cake covered in fondant with wired hearts. I created this  for my son and his fiancĂ©e's engagement party.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Christmas Decoration

Two beaded Christmas decorations I made from an Adrienne Walker Pattern. Used shapes cut out of ice cream container plastic then laced fabric around the shapes. Stitched together with beads. I has a stash of beads from previous crafty projects so used them, Have a few more designs to try.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Wedding card


Wanted to make a non floral wedding card for a friend. Used the cuttle bug to emboss background and hearts and the slice to cut out the heart shapes. After adding ribbon decided that there wasn't room for a sentiment but the card says wedding with out it.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Box with flip up lid




This afternoon Lisa at Crafters Anonymous showed us how to make this cute box with pop up lid. This one is 2"x 2". Just right for filling with treats.