A stars and stripes cake for a Kiwi-American birthday celebration in good old NZ. The family provided me with the lovingly baked the fruit cake, which smelled just divine! My job was to ice it with an American theme. It had an almond then fondant icing layer with fondant stars and stripes. Turned out very 4th of July looking.
American stars and stripes 50th birthday cake
I made this cake for one of the other Nana’s 50th birthday celebration. This beach scene includes all the things you need for a relaxing day at the beach.
Beach cake
The cake is chocolate with a chocolate ganache filling, then covered with fondant. The beach items are all fondant/gumpaste with raw sugar as the sand.
I just love the way the sun umbrella turned out, perfectly ruffled.
Here’s a closer look at some of the detail…
Beach umbella, chairs, sun hat, book and towel over the fence
Beach ball, bucket and spade and a crab sit along the fence line
Here are the cakes I made for family this christmas.
Christmas tree and presents
Choir boys Christmas cake
Poinsettia design Christmas cake
For the two square ones I tried a different method for the lettering. I used royal icing but piped the letters out on parchment then when dry transferred them to the cake. I did a couple of sets which was good as i did break a few so was pleased to have some back ups.
I think I like doing the rectangle shaped cake for fruit cakes. This time I tried a piping the lettering directly on the cake using two layers white on the bottom and a wriggly red top layer. The poinsettia flowers were all piped royal icing.
After reading up on the stunning and intricate piping work that Eddie Spence does. I thought I’d give it a try. Thankfully I had a set of his step by step instructions to follow. It turned out quite well for a first attempt. Though I think I need to work on getting my lines the same length and maybe being a bit more tidy.
Amazingly this was easier than I thought it would be, and I just love the way the loops seem to defy gravity. A steady hand is necessary and I did have to redo a couple that got knocked off. I would not want to have to transport a cake like this anywhere, one bump in the road and it could all shatter.
Anyway here it is…
The drop line piping experiment
This cake was for a two year old who was having his party at the zoo. The giraffe and zebra were made from gumpaste. The cake is my favorite chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling covered with fondant icing.
Zoo cake
Happy Birthday Ajay, hope you have a great birthday party!
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