Katie Alice inspired

Inspired by some of Katie Alice´s beautiful designs. I used in-lays technique on the two bottom dummies, (stamped out dots, flowers and leafs and replaced with other colours after covering "cakes" with fondant) it could be quite a challenge to use on real cakes, they certainly would have to be well cooled and firm, preferably without filling.

Colours are; Americolor Turquoise, Ivory, Avocado and dusty rose. Painted details: SK´s Bulrush

Maileg Bunnies

A dummy i made with Maileg bunnies.

Cute, cute Maileg-bunnies! :) 

A tiled border - loved making this! Not as hard to make as i feared. I used my patchwork diamond design cutter for the first time i think, since i bought it 5 years ago...

The hearts and eggs are cut out from embossed pieces of fondant.

Scandinavian Cakeshow 2010

I will not participate in Scandinavian Cakeshow´s competition this year because i won last year, but i´m invited to bring a cake for table of honour, so this years project will just be a small, humble creation.  -Yeah right...

 This is what i´m using for decorating my cake this year - oh, almost forgot; and my best

friend, the sugargun and the 5-petal silicone flower mold. Allthough it does´nt seem much,

this will be the most detailled cake i´ve ever made. -Let´s hope it´ll look good too!

 

 

When the cakes are finished, the bottom of the top tier will show a bit (if you look),

so that´s were i started - covering the bottom of the cakes. I needed a bit more height,

so i used 2 thick layers of marzipan on both cakes.

 

 

The colours are not up for discussion, but they will look great in the end.
 

Sugar decorations; little red flowers - amongst the 

primroses, broches, black leaves, hearts etc.

 

 I love this first step - great design and not too hard to do.

Too bad it´ll hardly show after i´m done with it. 

 

Starting to mess things up...  

 

 

A sneek-peek

  The cake is Oilily "Blue Sparkles" inspired. -And yes, it is slightly tilted.
 

It was loads of fun, breaking this design down to pieces and afterwards

transferring it onto a cake. Where to start, oh where to start!

So many details - and i even left out a few, afraid of overdoing the whole thing.

I hope you like it - i´m crazy about this design and how well it fits a cake!

 

 

 

Anonymous said...

Posted by detskønneliv.dk Tue, September 21, 2010 10:20:34
Den er jo helt fantastisk - et kæmpe kunstværk. Jeg er vildt imponeret over dine evner.
Hilsen Gitte
October 10, 2010 7:52 PM 

Anonymous said...
Posted by Faithy Mon, September 20, 2010 09:52:18
It's so gorgeous..i love your paint work and piping!
October 10, 2010 7:52 PM

lorena said...
wow!!! i JUST FALL IN LOVE WITH THIS CAKE!! really really happy to find your blog!!
cake hugs from switzerland!!
Lorena
November 27, 2010 11:07 AM

Cakeryblog said...
Aww, thanks guys, i really appreciate your words!
Lorena, you feel just like i do :)


10 October 2010

The danish table: These are all cakes from danish cake-enthusiasts. Nice collection!

 

 

The AMAzing Carol Haycox - Doesn´t like being photografed, i told her

it comes with the fame! ;) - I could sit and stare and listen to her for

hours (i think i did) she´s such a great personality.

 

Someone was driving veeeeery carefully back to Denmark!

Fortunately not too much damage was done. No worries though, these dummies

have done their duty, and may have to get stripped anyway. Life is hard! :)

Super Bowl

Imagine how this mess turns into a cool Saints cake in "just a few" hours!

At this point, it´s just a chocolate cake in a funny shape...

Now its a chocolate cake, ready for the fun part! -Covering the fleur de lis in sugarpaste.
-Hm, how to smooth the sides...?!

I rolled out a long, wide band of sugarpaste and secured it around the side of the cake. Using a thin rolling-pin, i rolled my way around, smoothing the sides nicely.

Cutting the centre Super Bowl logo was quite a challenge!

The top is made of cut out pieces of sugarpaste, inlays-technique. Also a challenge as i (again) baked too big a cake - The board is 40cm!

I loved every single part of this project, thanks to my cousin´s husband for keeping me on my toes! -And for drawing such a great sketch to work from :-)

Other Super Bowl-cakes: 

Cath Kidston

Today i went to Kagekompagniet´s annual cake-competition with this Cath Kidston - themed cake. Louise and i decided to create our cakes based on this theme and it was great fun! -See photo of Louise´s beautiful cake here.

The teddy is made by covering a styro-foam egg with sugarpaste for the body and a smaller one for the head. Flowers are hand-painted with edible paint.

The dogs are draught excluders:

Them, as well as the covering of the bottom tier- is marzipan. Red is easier to achieve in marzipan rather than in sugarpaste. I want one of these dogs!!

 The cake won 1. prize, so i get to get my trophy back! -From Louise! ;-)

The cake is a chili-chocolate cake with toblerone ganache and raspberry mousse.

Posted by Alice Lindberg Sun, April 26, 2009 22:48:26

Wow, this is really a fantastic cake!! I just love it, big congratulation on the 1. prize!


Posted by Piamarianne Mon, April 27, 2009 22:23:52
Thanks Alice! And congrats on your new blog! I´ll be looking forward to follow!


Posted by Monika Fri, May 01, 2009 17:06:50
What a wonderful cake - saw it on flickr and loved it! So much congratulations for winning the competition!


Posted by Piamarianne Sat, May 02, 2009 23:20:15

Thank you very much Monika, I´m glad you like it :-)


Posted by Maripal Rocha Sat, October 24, 2009 07:50:03
This cake is one of a kind! It's too cute and adorable to eat!


Posted by Piamarianne Wed, October 28, 2009 14:11:45
Thank you Maripal, We did eat the cake, but i still have the bear sitting in a glass-closet :-)

Rolling Stones and more...



These are made for a Dentist´s 60 years birthday, who´s interests are Rolling Stones, golf and planets amongst others. -And who recently had a serious eye-operation.
Its Devil´s chocolate cupcakes inserted with Dulche de Leche and with cream cheese swirls on top. Decorations of sugarpaste.

Theme: Ferrari

I have been going 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 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 cake-crumble and 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!