Tutorial: JEM Butterflies

I get my fondant workable by adding cornflour and letting it dry a couple of minutes after rolling out, before using the cutter.

More JEM Butterflies here and here

Tutorial - Lotus flower

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

Tutorial - sheep

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.

Cookie houses

I love making these little cookie houses, this is the third time i make them, and i try to make them different everytime. These are made efter a cute Christmas ornament i was given :)

 

Other houses here and here

Recipe here 

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.

Tutorial: Cakebites

I always manage to need just that size of cupcake cases i don´t have in my rather large collection. Maybe it´s common knowledge, but a while ago i found out that by using the same cutter i want for my cakebites, i can fit the cupcake case just the size i like.

Just like this!

Thought i´d share, because it´s a great help for me and now i don´t

have to buy all these irregular cupcake case sizes that don´t really fit anyway.

This is for my mother-in-laws birthday tomorrow :) A regular chocolate-cake, spiced up just a bit. I baked a large round cake, torted it and cut out round pieces. Between two round pieces of cake, i put a dot of apricot glaze. Mostly for moisture, and to highlight the chocolate-taste. On top, i also put a dot of apricot-glaze, a few blue-berries and some peanutbutter creme.

And then a collar of dark chocolate creme. Voila!

Nice and easy, and i´m thinking it´ll taste great tomorrow :)

Tutorial - Black and White Cuteness

I saw a cute little gif somewhere on the internet once (think it was MySpace) and it was the inspiration for this cute dummy.

Here is a tutorial for making the panda-topper:

Round balls of fondant - flattened with the palm of your hand.

JellyBean-shaped pieces of fondant

Glued together.. 

Like this.

Arms and legs

Stacking the fondant bits..

For the eyes.

Glue legs, little tails and eyes on the panda´s and you´re done. :)

FAQ - How to make beautiful cakes

There are many great tutorials on the internet, and i´ve collected a few regarding the most frequently asked questions i get about cake-decoration. These are as close to my way of doing things as i could find without having to create my own videos :)


How to slice and frost a cake with buttercream

• Mostly for fun, but he do use a great technique for slicing/torting the cake - i would hold back on the syrup though! :)

How to fill a cake

• How i do it, except after danish standards, i would slice/torte those two cakes each into two or three layers.

How to crumb coat a cake

• I would stop the buttercream fun here - and go for covering the cake with sugarpaste/fondant.

How to ice a cake

• -But if you like to avoid sugarpaste/fondant, this is how. I prefer using a piping bag to distribute my icing with though. This way i can half the recipe and i don´t have to bounce the cake around.

How to cover a square cake with fondant

• Most important here; Fit the corners first and the rest will go like a breeze.

 How to cover a round cake with fondant

• I just love this guys pink rollingpin!

How to stack cakes

• I use straws. The large, regular ones. I´ve never needed the stronger ones. Maybe my cakes are´nt as heavy as the english/american cakes?

How to make roses, using a 5-petal cutter:

Part 1: Rose bud
Part 2: Medium size rose
Part 3: Full size rose

• I always use water or clear alcohol to glue the parts with.

Other great tutorials on the net:

http://www.planetcake.com.au/courses/video.php

http://www.rolledfondant.com/how.htm

Tutorial: Patterned Paste - The Geraldine Dahlke-way

 

I wanted to try a technique by Geraldine Dahlke called "patterned pastes". I started out with "simple Rolls"... don´t know about "simple"... Its really hard to avoid stains from the paint even though i used a minimal amount. This is my second attempt - the firs one was even messier!  :)

 

This went to the fridge night over, its easier to slice whent its refridgerated. (Not really supposed to use cling film, use polythane bag) Anyway, this is going to be the covering for a mini three tier dummy. Sure does´nt look that way at this stage.



How cool is this! By slicing up the block of fondant, laying it side by side and rolling it out, it makes a neat cover for my mini-wedding-dummy. When the pieces are rolled out and glued to a large rolled out piece of fondant, then it´s ready for covering any cake.

Tutorial - Cruiser

I stumbled across a tutorial in my archives for a boat i made once, maybe someone will find it useful:

(Please excuse the mess, but it was late one night...).

The fondant cruiser is made directly on the sketches of the

actual cruiser to ensure as correct proportions as possible.

It´s essential  that the decks (of flowerpaste) on the cruiser

dries completely so they won´t skew. The two sides is half-

dried so they´ll  cooperate when being attached to the hull.

The cabin drying on a chunk of fondant, later removed.

-Drying time is needed several times during the process.

Since there are no cutters available in stores for this cruiser,

i´m cutting away untill  the pieces fits. -Using a lot of tools,

drinking a lot of coffee!

 There.

Couches added, bits and pieces made. The sugargun

once again working its magic!

Mast made of wooden dowels secured with grey balls of

fondant, resting on the cabin-roof on a chunk of fondant.

Details added, and there is the crusier.

See the cake here - scroll halfway down.