Thursday, June 24, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010 | 
Posted by
Danielle |
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.
Labels:
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.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
About Me
- Danielle
- Melbourne, Vic, Australia
- Owner of Too Cute to Cut, obsessed with all things cake related
What Blogs Am I Reading?
-
-
-
-
Fashionista Witch's Hat10 years ago
-
-
The Best of 201112 years ago
-
Vanilla Cupcakes13 years ago
-
