Shrek family cake in a mud bath for a 5yr. old

 Today's cake was from a repeat customer who was looking for something special for her niece's 5th birthday party. The birthday girl wanted a Shrek theme and she wanted to make sure Princess Fiona was somewhere on the cake. I was a bit intimidated with idea of creating the likeness of Shrek and Fiona but the birthday girl decided I should be up for the challenge because the little ogre triplets were added to the order. 

To make sure I could alter the faces easily to get the right likeness, I chose to create the family out of modelling chocolate. Yum! But....with this summer heat every time I tired to work on a figure, it would start to melt.  Many breaks were taken. The remainder of the decorations were made from fondant and gumpaste.

TomCat in a top hat cake for an 11 yr old

Today's cake was for a repeat customer who was looking for a cake that would look like her daughter's cat. The client sent me a bunch of reference photos and in one of them they had placed a top hat on his furry head. Too cute! That's the one.

This one was made out of "Oh my God" vanilla pound cake, vanilla buttercream, fondant and sugar paste. This was a super fun cake to make. I wonder what she'll get me to do next year?

Wine Bottle Birthday Cake

Today's cake was a last minute order for a 3D wine bottle. It was created out of vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and covered in fondant. I surrounded the cake with modelling chocolate wood shavings and created a faux-bois box out of gum paste. There were a lot of fun elements to make on this cake and I was thrilled to be able to learn how to make my bottle shiny with edible varnish.

A rainbow sea-themed birthday cake*

Today's cake was for a repeat customer who enjoyed last year's dolphin cake so much they asked for another sea-themed cake. This cake's interior is a 6 colour rainbow filled with white vanilla buttercream. Meant to feed 30 people I created a second tier to hold a sugar paste dolphin and a rainbow. The rainbow was a good test in my cake engineering and it's easy to forget that you always have to work against gravity.

 The final additions to the cake are handmade gum paste figurines. One turtle, a beluga, an orca and a seal pup. This little girl loves her sea animals. Such a fun cake to make.