Work in progress - and a great bargain!

Update:

I´m thinking of painting the accents i put on the scrolls with gold, and making large roses on top. But that´s not why i´m showing a half-done cake - i found a telescopic camera tripod on sale this week at Liddl and had to try it out:

I´ve been wanting one of these guys forever. Now i just need the rest to make my little hobby-studio complete! I feel so professional! Maybe i shoul some day soon learn how to take great photos without shadows and poor light :)

I´m currently working on this dummy, trying to make it fit a 1935 bourdeaux oldsmobile and a small airplane... My search on google for wedding cakes from the 30´s didn´t come up with anything useful:

I think a cake like this would break into pieces on the runway and it would probably not show at all on the photos.. (found at ruffled.com).

so i´m going for a cake that fits the car instead. I like it so far, but this is only the first step. I need flowers - i try to fight the urge of making large soft pink roses as toppers cause they wouldn´t fit the car. On the other hand i know i possibly can´t reach the bourdeaux colour the car has anyway. What to do, what to do... I´m thinking deep red roses and gold-accents?

Cake for Sofie

Our daughters confirmation is well over,

we had the greatest party and she looked so beautiful our little girl :) 

The cake, a chocolate mud-cake with strawberry mousse, fresh strawberries and tiny

mint-leaves tasted delicious and was all eaten up - 

I was told several people went for second´s - way to go! :)

I meant to create a design especially for her, but she wanted the

white tiger i´ve made once before, so that´s what she got :)

I cut a stencil that´s quite useless, but it gives a good hint of the dimensions of the tiger to paint after.

 To every single one who helped make our daughter´s day one of her best ever,

thank you right from the bottom of our hearts! :)

A yellow piece of fondant...

Late last night i decided to try out a new mold i just got. I had this chunk of yellow fondant and a leftover chocolate cake. This is what came out of it. -Pure fun! :)

Brian vs. Holyfield

Boxing gloves made of truffle-dough - not because that is a good idea at all, but the cakes collapsed in the oven for some reason. I shaped the gloves a bit more upright, but they flowed out a little after covering with fondant unfortunatelly.


Since the boxers are of older vintage, i decorated the gloves the same way. Old and worn ;)

When i took the pics, i had just painted the whole thing with cocoa-water to add patina - hence the shine. It dried up nicely and looked great later on.

The flavor of the truffle-dough was chocolate mud-cake, raspberry mousse and chocolate butter creme. It was served with soft-ice and fresh berries and that definately was a perfect match!


Great game yesterday - Great night! :)

Theme: Ferrari

I have nothing new coming up until some time next week, so i looked through my old pictures and found some Ferrari´s.

I´ll have to excuse the poor quality of the photo´s -and of the cakes, but it´s like everything else, practice makes perfect! -So i´ll just keep practicing ;)

 

2008: For a boys 3. birthday, a chocolate cake with chocolate buttercreme.
Placed on my, at the time newly purchased cakestand. They fit each other nicely i think! :)




2008: A confirmation cake for a young lad - a chocolate cake with raspberry mousse. This Ferrari insisted on really soft edges - there was just no way to "sharpen it up". Sometimes cakes have a will of their own! I´m sure some of you will agree.

2007: My first Ferrari - For a boys 11. birthday, a vanilla cake with strawberry mousse and "Toms" chocolateturtle ganache. -My old camera and i just weren´t that good friends!
 

I like to use the Ferrari Enzo as a model. I fill and stack the cake and then start carving away. If i cut off too much, i "glue" it back together with chocolate-buttercreme.
I saw somewhere on the internet people using cardboard templates, that might make it easier to achieve the right shape.


If you´d like to make a car-cake someday, there´s great help to get here: Make fabulous Cakes There are also other great tutorials and beautiful cakes!