Sealand Cakeshow 2013

This is my contribution to Sealand Cake Show 2013. I´ve had the image below lying in my "next project" folder for ages, and if wasn´t for Sealand Cakeshow, I never would have come to creating this little piece. -Which was fortunate, because it won first prize gold - much to my surprise! :)

Easter Bunny, Eggs and Carrots

A mini dummy - just playing around with a new type of fondant. Seems like the fondant-issues i´ve had are close to a solution. A major relief, since i have to make the most important cake ever; My daughter´s confirmation-cake a couple of months from now ;)

I´m beginning to look forward to play with fondant again. Loving this!

25.04.2011: Made it to Cakewrecks Sunday sweets-section - Yay! :) I´m so glad Jen headlined it "a perfect combination of elegance and whimsy" as it was just what i was aiming for - thanks Jen! :)

Vintage Easter

The incredibly cute hare-picture is found at the Graphic fairy 

The top is stencilled - my aim was to make the colours look a

bit more patinised, but one only gets one shot at this, so...

Miss Sofie

Thanks to my beautiful daughter for posing :)

Christmas tree

Christmas dummy.

Once again, textures from EdibleCreators,  love these.

The tree is made by piping royal icing shells on a styrofoam cone and is "recycled" from last year 

- I´m so lazy!

Chrismas Bauble

Christmas is slowly approaching, thus a good reason for a little recycling - the topper is from last year; worlds-most-expensive-christmas-bauble.

  

I love my new textures from EdibleCreators - nice price too! -The borders are not cut though, but this can be done with a ruler or as here, with the end of a writing-tip.

Happy Halloween!

Blue

In RL this cake/dummy is so dark blue that it´s almost black. It looks almost velvet-ish. Real nice! I´m still on a roll with Eddie Spence´s Royal icing methods slowly moving over to slightly different designs - and loving every minute! -Even though my wrists starts complaining...

Silvery Halloween

 Liking Royal icing! :) -Allthough, next time i think i´ll use

templates rather than a couple of needle-points here and there..

 

 

 The middle tier is made to look like a cast iron fence, i have this

really neat tip i never knew what to use for, but for this it was great!

 

 

 

 The dummy is painted with 100% edible silver from Rainbow dust - it

took one bottle, thinned with clear alcohol on a white cake, two coats.

 

 

 The shine! - I felt like i was decorating my cake-tins! 

 

 In daylight, at Sofisticake.

More practicing..

 

I´ve been doing a lot of practice lately - learning by doing.

 

But i´m slowly getting there :)

 

Getting the hang on the topdesign

 

-But still a bit shaky on the sidedesigns.

Ok for starters i guess.

Scandinavian Cakeshow 2012

This is what i brought to Scandinavian Cakeshow 2012 - a small piece for the danish table. Not much due to the everlasting lack of time, but i felt the need to contribute even a little something, because Tårtdecor puts so much effort in this arrangement to please all us scandinavian cake-nerds. :)

We had a great weekend, i got home quite late last night only to take an early morning flight to the other end of the country to participate in product training regarding aggregates to forklifters -what a contrast- so now i´ll drag myself to bed to recharge for working overtime most of this week. -Yay.

Practicing the art of Royal Icing

 

This would be my 2. attempt of Eddie Spence-ish cake decorating... Or what´s left of it.

 

Lots and lots of Royal Icing has been scraped off again, including a lower Lambeth-method-piping border that made my eyes go sore...

 

...It´s all just because i´m missing the right sized tips!

Blossoms

This dummy took like an hour or so to make - you gotta love the Blossom Sugar art molds for a fast production.

You simply roll out your fondant, cut with the cutter, place in the mold - press, and then you have the cutest little flower with amazing details. On the backside also!

The colour is Wiltons Pink Terracotta - nice :)


 

Baby blue Regal Ice

Playing with Renshaws Regal ice, pre-dyed Baby blue. I´m not that big a fan of Regal Ice, but i found that adding a small amount of tylose powder to the fondant, it´s ok to work with, as this dummy shows. (pictures taken with an Iphone, through a window, and are not edited).

For borders and decorations a larger amount of tylose is needed.

Small crown from Patchwork cutters - The fondant holds shape nicely :)

Painted with Rainbow Dust Metallic´s, copper - Wow! Great to work with!

Rainbow Dust Metallic - Light silver - beautiful and delicate!

Rainbow Dust Metallic - Dark silver - so shiny.

Rainbow Dust Metallic - Dark gold - Wonderful.

Regal Ice on its own is not very useable for molds like the silicone-pearl mold, as the string of pearls breaks several times along the way when i try to remove it from the mold. But - by adding tylose again, it works!

Maybe Renshaws fondant is mostly for covering cakes? I don´t know for sure, but i know now that tylose powder does the trick for me anyways :)

Strawberries

Strawberries dotted with yellow non-pareils :) Took some time but was fun!

Love

 Pure and simple.

Cupcake-cake

Playing around with patchwork´s cupcake cutters.

-And the gerbera cutter from Wilton´s flower set.

Fun! :)