Saturday, September 18, 2010
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The gorgeous Miss Charlie celebrated her First Communion on August 29th, and her mum Narelle asked me to make her cake. With exactly what she wanted in mind, here is what we had.
A rather large cross, about 35cm long, and 30cm wide at its widest point. This was created from two cakes. A new challenge definitely ensued, in how to cover a cake with so many corners. Done with only one attempt I was pretty happy with the result. especially my bow, which is all made from icing as well.
Congratulations Charlie :)
A rather large cross, about 35cm long, and 30cm wide at its widest point. This was created from two cakes. A new challenge definitely ensued, in how to cover a cake with so many corners. Done with only one attempt I was pretty happy with the result. especially my bow, which is all made from icing as well.
Congratulations Charlie :)
Thursday, September 16, 2010
I guess it had to begin somewhere, I was asked for a 3D Thomas the Tank Engine cake for a very spunky 1 year old. After researching and researching, I decided that I was up for the challenge, and a challenge it was.
I decided to use the Debbie Brown book for the instructions, and after much reading, re-reading, asking my husband to read it as well, and threatening to throw the book out of the window, we finally gave in an agreed that the instructions didn't match the pictures and I winged it, using the pictures as a guide!
I was actually really happy with how it came out, especially given how much grief there was in carving it. This cake takes quite some time to decorate with a LOT of hand cut detail in it. The effect...totally worth it though!
Here is Thomas :)
Front view
Close up of all the handmade 'coal'
My best friend of forever had her little girls 1st Birthday in July and part of my present was her cake. For a little girl that is in love with all things duck, the only suitable cake was a duck themed cake!
Using Debbie Brown's 'Cute Chick' Cake as inspiration I set about creating a duck fit for a 1st birthday. Having been petrified of carving, I think Im getting not to bad at it!
And a close up of the face;
Now....to catch up on August and September's cakes!
Using Debbie Brown's 'Cute Chick' Cake as inspiration I set about creating a duck fit for a 1st birthday. Having been petrified of carving, I think Im getting not to bad at it!
And a close up of the face;
Now....to catch up on August and September's cakes!
Thursday, July 29, 2010
My gorgeous baby sister turned 21 this month and I have been planning her birthday cake for months. What started out as a 2-D boot, turned into a Corpse Bride/Nightmare Before Christmas cake, to my final design after she decided on her party theme.
She decided on two themes, a masquerade party/pyjama party. So with her favourite colours being pink and black I decided to combine the two themes, and also make my first Mad Hatter cake! After lots of studying and planning this was how it all came together.
All cut up and covered
The mask for the top. This is handmade with black modelling paste, and covered in diamantes
I made a couple of black roses to go on the cake as well
The 'Pyjama' part of the cake being added, stripes and diamonds
The finished product. I was really happy with how it came out and was definitely one of my favourite cakes so far.
Well its been a very busy few weeks, cakes galore! This week of only one lot of cupcakes on Monday has given me a chance to catch my breath, and get into my new role at my day job.
So without further a due here is a catch up of some of my most recent cakes.
Week beginning 21st June
A mini 'Exploding Stars' cake for one of the girls at work. This was a tiny 6" white chocolate mudcake, loaded with white chocolate ganache for her husbands birthday. After the previous weeks big cakefest it felt like a piece of cake!
Chocolate Buttermilk cakes with chocolate cream cheese icing. Donna Hay = win! If you happened to buy her anniversary edition of her magazine a few months ago, this is the recipe of the gorgeous layered chocolate cake on the front cover. These were for our HR Manager at work for her birthday. I do all of the cakes for our Marketing and HR departments at work, it gives me a great chance to experiment with new flavours as everyone gets to pick an idea of a flavour that they want.
So without further a due here is a catch up of some of my most recent cakes.
Week beginning 21st June
Chocolate Buttermilk cakes with chocolate cream cheese icing. Donna Hay = win! If you happened to buy her anniversary edition of her magazine a few months ago, this is the recipe of the gorgeous layered chocolate cake on the front cover. These were for our HR Manager at work for her birthday. I do all of the cakes for our Marketing and HR departments at work, it gives me a great chance to experiment with new flavours as everyone gets to pick an idea of a flavour that they want.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Last weeks cake-a-thon went really well. It has been fairly hectic so has taken me a little while to get in here and tell you all about it.
Here are some pics of my first wedding cake, and my very spunky nephews first birthday cake, Im sure you can tell which is which!
Want to know how it all came together?
Starting off with splitting, filling and ganaching the cakes to give them that oh so tasty and very useful covering of smoothness make the icing so much easier. That said, as you can see doing this much cake takes up a little space in the kitchen!
Look at all that chocolate, so much mudcake, and about 5kg of white and dark chocolate ganache!
From here I cover them all, with fondant, white for Sesame St, and Ivory for the wedding cake, kneading 7kg of icing to make it pliable is a great workout for the abs and arm muscles if you are doing it properly too! As you can see the kitchen bench just wasnt cutting it anymore and we had to take over the table too.
Then there is the practice run to make sure that they are going to be all nice and flat before it gets put together. You may be wondering what the pole is for coming out of the middle of the cake. That is to hold them all nice and steady while it is being transported, each tier is threaded onto that pole, and wahlah, no movement.
Then it all gets put together and about 18 hours worth of work later, you come out with the two cakes at the top of this blog!
So now that these two are out of the way, I cant say I am in a rush to be doing two large cakes in one week, while I am working fulltime, again. I absolutely loved doing them though and the gorgeous people they were for hopefully loved them as much as I loved making it for their very special day.
So whats next? This week we have an 'Exploding Stars' cake, followed by a bit of a break for next week, then the week after my spunky sisters hopefully very glam 21st cake where pink and black is the order of the day. That is hopefully going to be one impressive looking cake :) A masquerade pyjama party is the order of the day.
Here are some pics of my first wedding cake, and my very spunky nephews first birthday cake, Im sure you can tell which is which!
Want to know how it all came together?
Starting off with splitting, filling and ganaching the cakes to give them that oh so tasty and very useful covering of smoothness make the icing so much easier. That said, as you can see doing this much cake takes up a little space in the kitchen!
Look at all that chocolate, so much mudcake, and about 5kg of white and dark chocolate ganache!
From here I cover them all, with fondant, white for Sesame St, and Ivory for the wedding cake, kneading 7kg of icing to make it pliable is a great workout for the abs and arm muscles if you are doing it properly too! As you can see the kitchen bench just wasnt cutting it anymore and we had to take over the table too.
Then there is the practice run to make sure that they are going to be all nice and flat before it gets put together. You may be wondering what the pole is for coming out of the middle of the cake. That is to hold them all nice and steady while it is being transported, each tier is threaded onto that pole, and wahlah, no movement.
Then it all gets put together and about 18 hours worth of work later, you come out with the two cakes at the top of this blog!
So now that these two are out of the way, I cant say I am in a rush to be doing two large cakes in one week, while I am working fulltime, again. I absolutely loved doing them though and the gorgeous people they were for hopefully loved them as much as I loved making it for their very special day.
So whats next? This week we have an 'Exploding Stars' cake, followed by a bit of a break for next week, then the week after my spunky sisters hopefully very glam 21st cake where pink and black is the order of the day. That is hopefully going to be one impressive looking cake :) A masquerade pyjama party is the order of the day.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Part of next weekend's cake extravaganza is a Sesame St cake for my nephews 1st birthday. With some time up my sleeve this week, I thought it would be a perfect time to get started on the figurines for the top of his baby Sesame St cake :)
Not quite finished yet, as you can see the poor little guys are feeling like they have lost their heads at the moment ;-)
I think they are going to look great on the cake if I do say so myself :-)
Monday, June 7, 2010
Had a great cake to work on the weekend just gone for a 30th Birthday for some very gorgeous friends Rachel and Leigh.
They wanted a blue and silver square with a big 30 on it. Deciding I wanted to play, I thought a double tier square would look great, and it would also mean that they would both get the flavour that they wanted (Rach dark choc mud, and Leigh choc mint mud).
My first double tier cake, and with a whole lot of researching and playing and a great tutorial from an amazing QLD caker (If I can do cakes half as good as her in the future I will be a very happy camper) Deliciously Decadent Cakes, it didnt come out too bad if I do say so myself!
Pics along the way
One freshly ganached cake. This is what you cake looks like underneath the icing. Look at all that chocolately goodness
All the stripes in place, just need the finishing touches
The 'topper' a hand moulded, hand painted 30
The finished cake, and yup all those silver stripes are hand painted.
So, what is one the cards? My nephew Jack's 1st birthday with Sesame Street theme being the order of the day, closely followed the next day by my very first wedding cake for the gorgeous Marnie. Classy, classic and elegant and I'm really looking forward to it.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
One cake down for the week so far. My little Nat turned 2 today, boy has time flown!
So to celebrate her birthday I decided a ladybug cake was in order,
So here it is, one carrot cake ladybug, filled with a yummy butter cream icing, and decorated in fondant.
Im a bit mud caked out this week, and tried out a carrot cake recipe. Deeeee-lish if I do say so myself. No dairy in site for the recipe for this one. Dense yet moist, I think it would also go fantastic withwhite chocolate ganache. Also does a fantastic conversion to Gluten free.
You may notice that I do a few GF cakes, with two coeliacs in the family its always experiment time to find recipes that covert to gluten-free but also taste like cake instead of cardboard. So with some experimenting I have worked out that I can do pretty much all of my cakes so far as gluten-free versions. They are a little denser, and dont rise quite as much, but still taste great, which for coeliac is the most important thing after the cardboard tasting products that have been around for so long!
I also tried out a fantastic new toy today for the daisies on the board, a plunger cutter, it cuts and embosses the petals all at the same time. What a time saver it was.
Still to come this week a cube for Saturday night.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Well I don't tend to do things by halves, so my first 'extended/double tier' cake is an 8" cube for some great friends joint 30th birthday on Saturday night. Dark Choc mud for her, and choc mint mud for him, the best of both worlds all in one cake.
Its going to be an interesting challenge, and I'm really looking forward to making it.
So lots of caking for me this week, in all about 12-15 hours for 2 cakes :o!!
Welcome to my first blog entry!
Here is where you will find all the fun and chaos that is Too Cute to Cut, from what I am playing with this week, to pics of finished products, and all things cake related.
So who am I and what am I doing here?
For those that dont know me, nice to meet you :) I'm Danielle a fulltime working, mum of one awesome 2 year old girl, who also decorates cakes for another living in the hope that one day in the future that will be my fulltime job!
I became addicted to cake when decided I wanted to have a shot at making my daughters first birthday cake, and boy have I come a long way in 12 months if I do say so myself
My first cake
Cake from my Planet cake course last month
So where to from here? Cake cake and more cake. My house is starting to look like a shrine to cake related books and tools and my favourites on my computer seem to have been taken over by cake related links, and Im loving it.
The website is coming soon, nearly finished editing the photos and the content then away we go.
Question of the day for our readers......what is your favourite flavour of cake?
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- Danielle
- Melbourne, Vic, Australia
- Owner of Too Cute to Cut, obsessed with all things cake related
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