Boot

So sweet :)

Tutorial - Lotus flower

At request: A tutorial for the little flower on this and this.

JEM Butterflies at Sofisticake

Evening-open at Sofisticake went really well, people were actually queuing outside the store before we opened!

It´s always nice to meet people who share the same passion as yourself, and also to say hello to a couple of Cakeryblog's regular readers, thanks for stopping by :)

I did a demo with JEM´s butterfly-cutters and the aid of the fantastic roller pad. Really great to work with, it only takes 5-10 minutes to make a perfect butterfly in 2 tones, and it is not difficult at all with a few tricks and tips. I hope JEM will make more of this kind of cutters.

 

These are all 2-toned, but i also made some in white, leaving out the little parts, creating a beautiful lace-effect. I´m sure the butterflies will also look great with a touch of edable gold paint, or with other dusting-colors - Like rainbow-colours and sparkles? :)

 

Sugar Shoes

I love making sugar shoes, and i always have a million ideas, but never enough time. With these shoes however, i have gotten the hang of the JEM cutter - i don´t always agree with it, but it is great to work with, especially because of the heel mold.



For sugar shoes i use either flowerpase or fondant with tylose-powder because it hardens faster, in order to keep the shoe stable, and make the whole process a lot easier.

 

More sugar shoes here and here

Gardenia - The cake

 So this was the purpose of the gardenia.

Fits nicely :)

Tutorial for Gardenia here

The lace-border is made by using hard resin Ayka-molds. A favourite tool!

Tutorial - Gardenia

This tutorial contains only the most basic steps and a few words and simple pictures. This is to make it look possible to create a sugar-gardenia for people like me, that have no patience with sugar-flowers. (I´ve been avoiding this, my favorite flower for years)!

Hope you´ll find it useful.

I made it for a dummy-cake i´m working on, pictures coming up.

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.

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 :)

Victorian Lady

I made this doll a couple of years ago and i finally had a good reason to make her a cake. This dummy was created just for her so i could take her to Scandinavian Cakeshow.

Colours: Americolor´s Warm chocolate, Avocado, Ivory, super red and Edible Art Lemon Gold diluted in clear alcohol.

Witch´s shoe

This was my shoe attempt no. 2, a (sophisticated?) witch´s shoe.

Sugar Shoes

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 :-)