Sugarpaste Cattleya Orchid

90th Birthday Cake

This is for a lady called Doris who is celebrating her 90th Birthday.

Sugar Paste Roses

Elevator Cake

This cake is for Jan for Matt's Birthday, he works for Otis the
elevator manufacturers.  The minions pitched up for no reason.

I'm Leaving On A Jet Plane

This one is for Richard who is leaving on Saturday and going on a trip to the US.  Have a wonderful time Richard!

Minions from Despicable Me

Wedding Cake 

This is an 8 egg sponge split into 3x 9" tins, sandwiched together with buttercream and given an undercoat of white chocolate ganache then covered with fondant. Decorated with sugar flowers I made earlier! and a sugar paste ribbon and bow.

Cupcakes

Roses and Buds

Large Sugarpaste Roses

I made these roses from modeling paste that I made from fondant and CMC powder.  Start with a 25mm polystyrene ball, take a piece of wire and make a small loop in one end.  Push the straight end of the wire through the poly ball and build the rose on this light weight core.  I used a 5cm circular cutter to make petals and then thinned the edges and centers with a ball tool.  I used the edible glue to attach the petals.

Raspberry Cream Gateaux

This is a really attractive cake made with fresh raspberries and cream.  It is a 5 egg layer cake ( method as layer cake in earlier blog) filled with 200g of raspberries and 300ml of double cream and topped with fondant icing and more raspberries.  The raspberries have been soaked in creme de fruits rouges overnight to give them that edge.

Cute Bunny

This bunny was on a greeting card I found and I have made him out of fondant.

Glorious Techicolour

My range of powder food colours perfect for colouring flower paste.  Available on ebay.

Stargazer Lily

Shades of Pink

Wedding Cake 3

The finished cake with sponge top tier and rich fruit cake base.

Sugarcraft Book

I have been teaching myself how to make sugar flowers with the instructions of a small book called.

Sugar Flowers 20 to Make by Lisa Slatter (Search press )

 

I have found this book to be very helpful but I will say I find making sugar flowers difficult, but very rewarding when they turn out well. Also you do need to buy sugarcraft equipment and flower paste not roll out icing.

Sugarpaste Stargazer Lily

This is my first attempt at a lily it was not easy.  Maybe will be easier with repeat attempts!

Sugar Paste Dianthus

Sugar Paste Gerberas

These flowers are for the top of the Wedding Cake.

Wedding Cake 2

Add some sugar flowers and that is the bottom tier finished

Wedding Cake

This wedding cake is for my brother in-law Nigel and his Fiancé Krista. The bottom tier is a rich fruit cake and the top tier will be a sponge cake.

Turn the cake upside down and pack the gap at the bottom with fondant icing.  Use apricot jam thinned with water and warmed in a sauce pan to make the icing stick.  Fill all the defects with icing too.

Roll out icing ( I would normally use marzipan) and lay on cake and smooth with your hand over the top and then round the edges.  Gradually work down the sides of the cake in one area at a time then trim the icing at the bottom.

I will decorate the cake next.