Jungle Cake and thanksgiving :)

So back in September i made this amazing three tier cake for a little boy that was turning 1 years old. His room theme was a jungle animal theme, so i decided to make him a Jungle cake :)

I was very excited about the outcome :) it was the first time for me to form figures and accents with gum paste. After squeezing a ball of gum paste in my hand i just decided to treat it like play-doh and it turned out so easy and fun to work with.

Here are some close ups of the cake:

and here is the final product:

Two more cakes that i have recently made was for thanksgiving. The first is a deluxe carrot cake with pineapple chunks, walnuts and raisins in it. It was covered and filled with  cream cheese icing and decorated with gum paste leaves.

The second one is my all time new favorite cake. It is a chocolate fudge cake filled with a sweet ricotta frosting and topped with a chocolate glaze and walnuts. YUM!!!!

 

Hamburger Cake and Fries

So a boy at youth had his birthday and I thought hard what kind of a "manly and cool" cake i could make. And since all teenage boys are obsessed with food I made an 8 inch Hamburger and fries:

Buns were made with vanilla yellow cake, hamburger was made with chocolate cake and the lettuce, tomatoes and cheese was fondant. then i made yellow, red and light brown icing to cover the bun, make ketchup and spray mustard on the burger. 

The fries are cake hehe.

So fun, so different and so not savory.

Guitar Cake

This was a cake that I made for my father-in-laws birthday in July.
It was a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. 

It was yum, but it was also fun to make. The Strings were white icing and the knobs and frets were chocolate fondant. 

My first guitar creation and being left handed I made the guitar for a left handed person, but oh well, It was not for playing but for eating hehe. 

Eiffel Tower Cake

So, here it is, my first 3D royal icing creation. 

 

And where best to put it then on top of a dark chocolate fudge cake filled with dark chocolate fudge frosting?

The Eiffel Tower and letters were created out of royal icing and left to dry. After filling, icing and decorating a 3 layer 6-inch cake I chilled it for 15 minutes before placing the letters and Eiffel tower on the cake.

Love, love, love the result!!!

 

Chocolate yum Cake

Here is my newest cake: Dark chocolate and marble layer cake with dark chocolate filling and milk chocolate icing. Long title i know. Actually its simply Kerri's cake. why? because it was a cake i made for my pastors wife Kerri for her birthday.
It was a practice for me to work with royal icing again, and it was a bit of a challenge, but i managed and got lots of yum sounds from people when the ate it. Well, i mean, who would not say yum to chocolate?


Even though it is a crazy contrast i choose pink for the royal icing because i knew that pastor Kerri likes pink flowers. In case anyone was wondering hehe
So here it is:

Chocolate Chip Smile

So i realized that i never posted the cake i made on Gracie's Birthday. I showed you the one that i made for her party, but not the "Chocolate Chip Smile" as she called it.


As most kids, Grace loves cookies. So i made a gigantic chocolate chip/m&m cake for her. Oh and the smile on her face when she realized that she was eating a giant cookie :)


For all you moms out there that are thinking "my kid (or husband) would love this" here is the recipe:
mm-chocolate-chip-cookie-cake recipe


The only thing i would suggest is to reduce it to
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
because it turned out rather sweet.


I doubled the recipe and put icing in between. Be aware, it is deceiving how much it serves. We ate this cake for 4 or more days.


So, and here are the pictures of the cake:

black and white cake

So i saw this picture about 9 months ago and decided that i wanted to give it a try.I thought long and hard to when i would want to until finally i decided to use either my dad our my husband as a guinea pig.

Being that my dad and husband have their birthdays back to back i thought it best to have them celebrate together. And so they did :)
As the date got close i started to become sad because i realized that most of the family would be out of town. How could i make such a huge cake and risk over half of it getting spoiled? So i opted for a smaller creation of the cake.

And here is my creation: White/dark chocolate Supreme

The top layer was a milk chocolate cake filled with milk chocolate frosting and the second layer was darker than dark chocolate sponge with dark chocolate fudge frosting.

The tricky part was the chocolate decoration. living in Europe has proven to be a challenge when it comes to creating any kind of chocolate statues, candies or in this case chocolate sheets with swivels all over. The chocolate is just not right for it. The chocolate tastes better in Europe however the consistency is just not right. it melts too fast. So in between each sheet i created i had to refrigerate them before making more or adding the swivels. It took me a whole day just to get the chocolate sheets prepared. The rest was easy. Once i had the sheets the baking layering and icing the cake was done in no time. once the cake is iced you simply stick on the chocolate sheets. It was a great cake to create!!! A real man-ly cake and it was very much enjoyed by my family and friends.

Another Castle (HUGE)

So by now you are probably thinking that I am one of those people that start blogs and after a few stops. Nope, I have just been extremely busy. As well as it is very heard to type while baking and withing the time that i have not written i have actually baked and decorated two projects. Oh and I also decorated a hotel for a pastors retreat.
I am still waiting on the photos from the pastors retreat, and the cookie monster cupcakes did not exactly turn out picture perfect, so i will tell you about the caste i made.

This project actually come from a friend of mine seeing pictures of my daughters birthday cake.
They saw the castle on a hill cake and commented on the picture that they know that their daughter would really like something like that. So i offered to make her one as a birthday present. She had several choices, but this is the one she picked:

This cake was created by the company Simply Sweets

First i was very nervous about making this cake, but then i got very excited. It would give me another opportunity to work with fondant, but was a nice combo since it used icing as well.

This cake took me a total of 12 hours to make:This is not including the time i had to wait for the cake to cool. First i started with the fondant flowers, door and windows.I cheated a bit by using store bought fondant. I did not have a flower cookie cutter so i had to cut each flower out with a little knife. Then i laid them out to dry. Then i started baking the cake. The cake was made from scratch and it took me quite a while to make the batter. However, 24 eggs later and lots of stirring, it was in the oven. The cake consisted out of two vanilla cakes and one chocolate cake. Cutting them each in half, it ended up being a 6 layer cake.The towers were made out of store bought strawberry jelly rolls and store bought fondant.
I assembled the cake alternating each layer with homemade butter cream vanilla on one level and chocolate icing on the next.My favorite part of the cake making was placing the flowers and tubing the leaves and grass with green icing. Actually, no i am wrong. My favorite part was the next day when i saw my friends daughter's jaw drop open when the cake came around the corner. That was all the reward i needed to make it all worth it.