Spongebob and Angry Birds Cakes for Arlynn

Some little girls are so lucky... Arlynn is one of them! She's my cousin's daughter and she just turned 9! For her FIRST birthday cake, which she wanted to bring to school to celebrate her birthday with her friends, she requested for a Spongebob Squarepants birthday cake. She spent the entire day coaching me on what Spongebob looks like and what the cake should taste like..

Sure got me crashing down to earth

Boy! I've met my toughest customer! She even asked for a sketch of Spongebob before it goes on the cake...

I made sure I made the cake while she was away in school. I don't think I could take the strict over-the-shoulder baking. I made a nice rich Chocolate cake with pink strawberry frosting.

In the end, I think she was happy with the outcome.

For her second birthday cake, she had even HIGHER expectations! Haha... Never bring your A-game knowing you would need to come back and perform again.. This time she asked for an Angry Bird cake. She kept changing her mind about which Angry Bird was her favourite. I wasn't too excited about making an Angry Bird fondants 'cos everyone has made them already! Google it and millions of pictures appear!

This time, I made 3D figurines.. no point showing off what I already showed, making a 2D one. And since I had lots of leftover fondant, already coloured to the angry bird shades (Yellow, Red, Blue, Green...) it was easy enough.

This time, I made a pink strawberry butter cake with vanilla cream and berry jam. I think the kid liked the fondant toys more than she enjoyed the cake. I told her she didn't need to eat them, and could keep them instead. The weather here in Auckland is nice and cool and dry - perfect for keeping fondants!

Phew! That was one tough challenge!

A little late Christmas....

Hope you had a jolly molly Christmas :)

Fondant toppers for Christmas Cupcakes (unfinished santas)

 

Santa and his best elf! 

And Rudolph came too....

 Hope you had a great Christmas 2011, and a great start to 2012

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Puppy cupcakes

How much is that doggy in the window?

It was my friend's Christina's birthday. She is a dog person, so I made her doggy themed cupcakes. 

I do love fondant. It reminds me of Play-Dough.... I made a pack of puppies - some I tried making them look like Huskies and Mini Schnauzers, one looks like Wishbone, and a couple of mongrel looking dogs. 

And if you were wondering about the half a dog, it's a puppy digging for his bones...

 A whole set of puppies, paw prints and birthday girl's name... 

Cupcakes were chocolate, with peanut butter filling and chocolate buttercream

Happy Birthday!

Garfield Cake for Vivien

Garfield made from marshmallow fondant

Fondant decorations always give a very neat, clean and professional look to cakes. Because you can mold them and shape them according to templates, it's not too easy to screw it up. And even if you do, it's pretty easy to repair!

However, the thing I do not like about fondant is that it is made almost entirely out of sugar. It tastes yuck - and you can't refrigerate it as it'll sweat when you take it out of the fridge. I usually tell people not to eat the cute doll on top of their cakes, unless they are looking for a sugar high.

But to make pretty little dolls and cartoon characters; fondant is still the way to go. So Garfield - you have no choice but to be fondant. Plus, making alphabets to spell out the names of the birthday girl is easier too, with the help of my alphabet cookie cutters :)

I love this picture! It looks so artsy! 

I traced an image out and cut out piece by piece and layered them one on top another. Garfield is relatively easy - only 4 colors needed; orange, yellow, white and black. Oh and a pink nose.

guess who?

I can't rely on my icing being yummy anymore - seeing that I encourage people to cut it off the cake, instead of eating it, I had to make the inside as yummy as possible. I sandwiched two butter cakes with melted chocolate, cream and Korean Strawberries! :) Yum yum...

Korean strawberries are the best strawberries in the world!!!! Seriously!!

Fondant done. Cake done. Now to put it together.... I faced a dilemma. The cream will melt if not refrigerated, but Garfield will sweat if refrigerated. I had to wait till the last hour to put them together.... I still stuck it back in the fridge anyway. A sweating Garfield is nothing compared to soured cream and strawberries!

Another submission to Made by You Mondays. You guys should check them out, they make the cutest things on the planet! :D

Penguins sweat in Malaysia...

Pingu (black) and his overweight cousin Pingo (blue)

These pictures are not new. You might have already seen them on my Facebook page. But I'm mighty proud of my marshmallow fondant penguins.

Created from sugar, marshmallows and love, I name my two cockeyed creations Pingu and Pingo.


Note that the penguins are sweating. An important fact to remember - if you ever purchase or make fondant, do NOT place them in the fridge. They'll look pretty and stiff whilst refrigerated, but once it's out of the box, it starts to sweat, due to water condensation.

Fondant is incredibly fun to make. You get to create your craziest cake designs. Sitting there with balls and balls of different colored fondant balls, you just need to let your creativity juices flow.

Creative juices a little stuck

These parfaits in particular, are my favorite. Strawberry jam sandwiched between two butter cake circles, and draped with dark or white chocolate.


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