Chocolate/Peanutbutter with Blueberries

Chocolate/peanutbutter creme holiday cake for the colleagues - I´m off to an exiting house-decorating work-holiday :)

In-laws gold weddingcake

A gold weddingcake for my in-laws - I would have liked more gold on it, but the colour was nearly impossible to paint with, not at all as I remember it. But nice to know I still have some skills, I was actually pretty nervous about this one...

It´s a layer-cake with strawberry mousse and lime syrup - nice and light because we had it after a scrumptious dessert-buffet :)

The figurine on top is the original from their wedding 50 (!) years ago, so very nice - makes me sad I didn´t save the one from our own wedding 20 (!!) years ago. But that one was terribly plastic anyway, so never mind.

For Madeleine

This weekend I spent in the company of fondant, icing and cake tools. It surely has been a while, the last fondant cake I made was in October 2012..

I've made lots of decoration work since 2012, but no real cake projects. So it was fun to try again - I admit I'm a little out of practice, but it went anyway. 

The cakes are for my cousin's little pretty girl who had a christening today and they are plain layercakes with raspberry mousse and lemoncurd. 

-I have not missed the taste of fondant ...

My cakes in 2013

I only made af few dummies in 2013 because a break from fondant was needed. I don´t think I´ll get back to the same amount of fondant-cakes ever again, but I´ll leave the blog open, because many people still uses it for inspiration - even though there has been no uopdates for a year now.

I will, of course share if i get any interesting projects, but for now - thanks for stopping by in 2013 :)

I wish you all the best in 2014 - have fun in a world of sugar :)

My cakes in 2012

I made lots of dummies this year, mostly for a cosy little cake-supply shop in  Roskilde, wich i also got to tend a few times. Such fun! I also got to teach a Royal Icing course wich was a huge challenge, but went along well. 

I took a quick trip to Birmingham to visit Cake International fair, great to be back after missing out the last couple of years.

Most popular posts this year have been:

Tutorial - Gardenia

Tutorial - Lotus Flower

Tutorial - JEM Butterflies

Tutorial - Black and White Cuteness

The Lambeth

Naughty Cake!

Tutorial - Sheep

Tutorial - Patterned paste

Ninjago Cake

Galleries

My little blog has been very well visited this year - according to my standards. Twice there´s been over 1.000 visitors on one day! Plus a couple of times 5-600 visits a day. Wow..

Thanks for stopping by in 2012!

I wish you all the best in 2013 - having fun in a world of sugar! :)

Christmas cake

 

I brought this christmas cake back from Birmingham to share with my colleages come december, and it has not been easy not to take a bite or two because it smells simply divine! -And i know it tastes great, because i had more than a few tastings at the stand...

 

 

I love the texture on these cakes. I soaked the cake thoroughly with my husband´s brandy, I don´t know if that´s the way to treat it, but i bet it´s pretty tasty :) Can´t wait - I´ll have to try making these cakes myself.

 

The cover is marzipan fondant, not too easy to paint on as the wetness draws out in the marzipan.

 

Halloween Pumpkin cake

 

 

This is an orange layer cake with light green vanilla/white chocolate filling. There are three cakes inside and it should feed about 20-25 persons. It´s rather big, the plate is 30 cm and it´s about 25 cm high. It is black as the night with no blings or sugar gizmos - just a plain ol´ pumpkin.

 

I absolutely loved making this and it looks quite awesome in real life :)

Champagne Corks...

...paper airplanes and peppernuts from 2010, that's what our highly esteemed colleague throws with when he feels too bullied by us girls. Therefore, his 60th birthday cake of course had to look exactly like this. 

 

Chocolate mudcake with cognac-soaked cranberries and chocolate creme.

 

 

I tried to achieve cork-effect by sponging, dusting and painting.

 

 In addition to the cake, we celebrated by replacing his office-chair with an old rocking chair, birthday flags everywhere, a homemade Mayor chain and a birthday song when he least expected it.

 

I think he had a great day at work - i know we did! ;)

Tart with Amarena cherries

Chopped chocolate melting on a hot tart..

 

Tart with sour creme/whipped cream with vanilla, dark chocolate, Amarena cherries and mint leaves from my herb-garden. - Danish recipe here

I have a strong feeling, this Fat Daddio baking tin and i will become very close friends! :)

Summer holidays

At last summer holidays are here :)

With this cake from 2009 i wish you all a very happy summer!

Purple

A chocolate cake with raspberry mousse, sprinkled between layers with peppermint-milk-chocolate.

I used Satin Ice for covering and making beads and roses. The prof´s are all using it, it seems. I wonder what they add to it, to prevent it from cracking and crumbling....? Very odd to discover that the more colourgel was added, the more the fondant seemed to dry out.

Petit Green Maggie

I love Maggie Austin cakes, her style is both delicate and rough in such a sophisticated way.

This is my version of one of her designs. This was fun to make!

A small Cinnamon/Vanillacream cake - no dummy this time! :)

A very small royal cake.

Since this cake got its very own section in the article on cupcakes in our local newspapers, i better show it. I made it in 2006 for a gathering with my cake-club, and it is made after one of danish Countess Alexandra´s beautiful robes.

 I´m not that royal a person but i did love making the medallions.

 

I even made the medallion with a portrait of the queen - and rapidly covered it with pearl dust, it wasn´t that good!

Not a very clear picture, but the robe has a white embroidery and small blue stones - Gorgeous! -Some people might recall there was an outcry because the ribbon was put on inversely. Well, she still looks adorable.

Hmmm, a royal left-over-cake? :)

My cakes in 2011

 

2011 in cakes. A lot of smaller projects but it still amounts to aprox. one project for this blog pr. week wich was, and is the goal :-)

A few small anekdotes from the past year:

My easter-bunny-dummy hit cakewrecks. I have to brag just a wee bit, it IS the 2. time one of my cakes are featured there. -In Sunday Sweets mind you, not amongst the wrecks. (Allthough i might have a couple of candidates, but please don´t tell)...!

Maileg saw the bunny-dummy and got permission to use it for their newsletter wich reaches aprox. 3500 Maileg fans!

I´d tried out the Lambeth-method with no luck, so i attended a course with the great Sif wich was indeed very interesting and instructive.

I also wanted to learn more about painting on cakes, so the course with Marlene at Sofisticake was just what i needed. 

Someone submitted one of my Ferrari cakes on this page - it sure looks a bit funny amongst all that expensive metal!

Cakeryblog has been pinned. I better find out what this pinterest-thing is, it seems to be very popular!

It was great fun having Roskilde dagblad visiting last month. They wanted to write an article on cupcakes and why it seems so important to decorate away like the trends are these days - after all "it´s just cake". So i told them. :)  I haven´t seen the article yet, even though the paper was published last week.

Top 10 posts:

Naughty cake!

The Lambeth

Maileg bunnies

Carousel rocking-horse cookies

Out of rocking-horse cookies

Cake for Sofie

1000-ideas *Ended*

Tutorial: Black and white cuteness

Candy-cake

I still love my little sugar-hobby, and I´m glad to see many people click by here daily. - Most of you are from abroad, so I´ll continue posting in english.
I also really enjoy meeting replicas of my work here and there - thank you guys, for linking back! :)

All in all this year has mostly been about wishing to create interesting cakes on several occasions, but having to settle with un-decorated cakes or none at all. I will love to fulfill others, but especially my own expectations in 2012, so here´s to hoping that my full-time work will get back to "normal" any time soon, and will stop taking up so much time and energy as it has most of this year.

Thank you all so much for participating and following.

 I wish everybody even more fun in a world of sugar 2012!

Ninjago Cake

The Ninjago team fortress - I made two of these for a birthday-boy. They were fun to make, its chocolate cakes with a thin layer of chocolate buttercreme - no fancy filling this time as i had to make them a couple of days in advance because of a tight schedule.

Figurines were added at the birthday party, and the boys were actually playing on the cakes :)

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 :)

FAQ - How to store a cake

When i store a cake with fondant in a fridge i never wrap it, nor do i box it. I crumble up ½ a roll of kitchen towel and stuff it around the cake -making sure it doesn´t touch it- to attract the moist from the fridge so that the cake won´t. I find that the more vegetables and fruits are stored in the fridge at the same time, the more humidity the cake attracts and the more it sweats when it´s taken out. Therefore i make sure everything else apart from the cake is properly wrapped.

How not to store a cake; 
I suspect my cake below was stored in a large fridge with open cans of chopped fruit in syrup (one of the components in the dessert we had). I know for a fact that it was in a fridge, and that it was taken out at least 2 hours before this picture was taken. Under normal circumstances the cake would have dried up again after aprox. 1 hour. In addition, someone had by accident rubbed the tiger with...their belly, perhaps?
I was not allowed in the kitchen when i brought the cake and accepted this because i´m a polite person, but i think next time i´ll have to insist on handling it myself. ;) Then i would´ve been able to avoid this:

See the cake before it was stored improperly here

Naughty Cake

A chocolate cake with strawberries and bourbon vanilla creme. The zebra print is black fondant pieces placed on thin white fondant and then rolled very thin. Loved doing this, i will definately have to make both cakes and cupcakes with zebra-print!

This cake is for a young man who celebrates his confirmation today - we discussed what he would really like - and there´s no way getting around this, this is the thing these days! :) I hope it´s not too naughty though.

Congrats cousin -We´re looking forward to the party!

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! :)