Cool Cakes

Here are some cool cake projects as of recently! It is the season of celebrating the people we love & the things that they love about life!

Book Cake

Maria loves writing! In this cake, each line of the page is individually marked using a ruler and the back of a paring knife, then pages airbrushed. The letters on the pages are hand painted using food colouring and a fine-tipped paintbrush. The ink jar is sculpted from modelling chocolate, and the feather from gumpaste:

iPad Cake

Elma loves her iPad! In this cake, the iPad is made from a hard chocolate interior, which was then covered in gumpaste. Scrabble is one of her favorite games, so they kindly sent an image with the message written as the Scrabble letters. The image was then printed onto edible photo paper, using food colouring. The cake is covered in lime green fondant, the same colour as Elma’s case:

First Birthday Cake

It’s Tristan’s first birthday! The ball is sculpted out of cake – layers of cake are stacked, then carved from all angles to form a ball. The number one is made using modelling chocolate and gumpaste. The “torn” pieces of fondant were attached after, and blended in:

Cowboy Boot Cake

And last but not least, Erin loves shoes! Here are photos of the original boot, used as a reference. The embroidery on the boot was created using piped royal icing and the brush embroidery technique, then hand-painted using various shades of royal blue.  The stitching along the seams was created using a quilting tool:

Interesting Cake Links – January 2012 Edition

This is a second edition of interesting cake links. I have been collecting these amazing cake tutorials, articles, and videos – and wanted to share their fantastic work with you:

• Pink Cake Box makes a phenomenal and realistic Dump Truck Cake!

• Sugarbelle helps explain Tulip red, the no-taste red food colouring.

• Karen’s Cookies shows us in her video a clever way of keeping your piping bags clean when using multiple icing colours.

• Datafone visually shows what baking is really about, in the captivating short films Cupcakes and Macaron

• Sweetapolita shows us a detailed step-by-step tutorial on  How to Make a Fondant Asparagus Cake

• The Cakerator shows us how to make a stunning Gumpaste Peony in Part 1 and Part 2 of her online tutorial

• Call me cupcake! shows us how to create that fabulous frilly cake texture in her ruffled cake tutorial. I have seen this delicate ruffled cake texture popping up everywhere (and in my opinion, led by the stunning cakes by the very talented Maggie Austin).

See the first version of interesting cake links here.