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! ;)

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


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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.

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 :)

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! :)

Painted easter cookies

Hand painted cookies. Frosted first with fondant, then painted with diluted food coloring.

Waiting for easter...

It´s a bit early, but whilst waiting for easter i thought i´d show a couple of my earlier easter-projects - and two sneak peeks:

 

Sugarcraft from 2010:

2009 - A chocolate truffle-cake

Easter Cookies 2009:

I have made a couple of easter-projects already, and will -of course- show... in time ;)
Sneak peek:

Teddy

The teddy is from the Cath Kidston themed cake i made for a competition in 2009.

I saved the teddy and later on put it on this little dummy and brought it along with me to Scandinavian cakeshow i Sweden in 2010. -As a display-cake.

After that it has been on display at Sofisticake, a small cake-supply shop, for a couple of years. It sure has been "Oohh-ed and Aaahh-ed" at many times :)

Waiting for christmas..

Whilst waiting for christmas i thought i´d post some christmas-stuff from the archives:

2009

 Pottery-mouse lovin´ candy canes.

2009
A mini-chocolate cake - serves 8-9 people. For indicating the size, the deer is 7 cm tall. Playing around with Rina :-)

2008

For Sofie´s class at School.

2007

A cute bird-house on an ugly cake :-)

2007

Mini cookie-houses