Smurfette

Smurfette-cake for our good friends daughters birthday.

A Vanillacake with strawberrymousse and chocolatecreme.

Wouldn´t it have looked adorable, if i had remembered to put little toadstools on, like i planned!?

Of course blue inside.

 I don´t think i like these coloured cakes, but the kids sure did :)

Popcake winner is...

Bianca from Bianca's Kageverden, Congratulations! :)

I hope you'll find great inspiration in the book. I saw on your blog that you have a birthday coming up - hurry up and send me your adress at piamarianne@kageriet.net maybe it will arrive just in time! :)

About the Popcakes... I haven't found the time yet - the garden needs closure before winter comes amongst many other things, but i know the design i want to use eventually :)

Hand painted Cupcake disks

Still painting... This time on disks for Poppy seed-citrus cupcakes

(try saing that fast 3 times :) -with Wiltons ready-made frosting.

I added zest from 2 limes and 1 lemon plus 1 table spoon poppy-

seeds to a plain vanilla cupcake-recipe.

The motives i made are more simple than they look; my kind of craft! :)



Tutorial here


***Don´t forget the POP-cake give-away - there´s still time to enter***

Tutorial: Handpainted flower disks

Tools: Brushes no 1 or 2, white and brown edible colour,

clear alcohol for thinning the colour, a spatula to move the

disks around if necessary, plus a plate to mix the colour on.

1. step: Draw the outline with the tip of the brush in an upright position

2. step: Adjust the outline and start filling out with the white colour.

Make sure to use a very thin layer, or else it won´t dry up.

Mixing the colours. By adding a drop of clear alcohol

after mixing, the colours become more fluid.

3. step: Adding the branches. Because i don´t mix the

brown colour completely, i have several shades to use

wich makes them look more vivid. I use the tip of the

brush to "dot" lille leaves

4. step: "Dot" a half-circle center for the flower.

Best to let the white flower dry completely as the

colours tend to blend a bit.

Cupcakes with handpainted flower disks here

Note:

The fondant-disks are aprox. 4mm thick and have been drying for a couple of days on both sides.

Still they became a little soft when put on the frosting. Next time i´ll try using flowerpaste, it might be better.

Tutorial - Cruiser

I stumbled across a tutorial in my archives for a boat i made once, maybe someone will find it useful:

(Please excuse the mess, but it was late one night...).

The fondant cruiser is made directly on the sketches of the

actual cruiser to ensure as correct proportions as possible.

It´s essential  that the decks (of flowerpaste) on the cruiser

dries completely so they won´t skew. The two sides is half-

dried so they´ll  cooperate when being attached to the hull.

The cabin drying on a chunk of fondant, later removed.

-Drying time is needed several times during the process.

Since there are no cutters available in stores for this cruiser,

i´m cutting away untill  the pieces fits. -Using a lot of tools,

drinking a lot of coffee!

 There.

Couches added, bits and pieces made. The sugargun

once again working its magic!

Mast made of wooden dowels secured with grey balls of

fondant, resting on the cabin-roof on a chunk of fondant.

Details added, and there is the crusier.

See the cake here - scroll halfway down.

Painting course at Sofisticake

I was thrilled to attend a course at Sofisticake with Malene, who is an educated Royal Copenhagen painter. I hope there´ll be a part II, III and more, because it was extremely interesting and she´s a great teacher.

We practiced basic stroking-techniques - really difficult although it looked so simple when she demonstrated.

 Most important - the course gave me lots of inspiration to carry on at home. These are painted with Wiltons white icing colour.

 

Taking a break from stroking...

-And taking it a bit further - just to see if i could. This is an image of Mads Stage (hence the initials on the heart), painted on the cookie with a picture lying beside me. This attempt is good enough for me - Note to self; Never say you can´t.

I tried out roses too...

 

 

There´s room for improvement, but i did surprise myself with these ones and

i´m looking forward to refine my efforts. I´ll definately get on with practising!
First step will be shopping for better brushes and lots of coloured dusts.

Hope you like them :)