Cake Creations

I've always been interested in baking cakes and decorating them so here are a few of my cake creations...

This was the first cake I made experimenting with icing. I made it for my little cousin's 6th birthday. I baked an 8"victoria sponge cake and a little cake in a glass bowel to create this castle look. I then used edible paper to make the towers and I bought sugar decorations. 

I made this cake for another cousin's 11th birthday. This was the first time I used fondant icing. I rolled it out to ice the cake and I then used the left over fondant to create little shapes and a dress. To change the colour I just mixed in some food colouring but for the dress I painted the food colouring on top. 

I made these fairy cakes for Croydon Youth Theatre, a song and dance show. I just used royal icing (pouring consistency) to ice them and tubed icing to for the detail.

Here's another castle cake I made for a friend's 20th birthday. To make the towers, I used ice cream cones and just covered them in buttercream icing then added sugar decorations. 

For my 21st birthday, I wanted to make my own cake. I started sketching a few ideas and decided to incorporate interests of mine. 

Here are my hunter wellies and a basket of yellow roses. 

Here is my twine tin.

Here's a red packet that are traditional in chinese culture. I also love putting candles in wine bottles so I decided to make a mini wine bottle to hold a candle. 

I stuck yellow rose all around the cake. 

The red lines are all balls of yarn that join to create a music stave. 

Here you can see the balls of yarn falling around the cake. 

Here's a cake for my friend's 21st birthday. I bought her knitting needles and red wool to make a scarf for her previous birthday so decided incorporate it into the cake. She loves Charles Dickens so I decorated the cake with some of her favourite novels. 

My cousin got married so I decided to make their wedding cake as they were only have a small gathering to celebrate. I knew I wanted to create something simple but elegant. 

These flowers (roses) are all hand made and took me about 6 hours to make enough! They look beautiful on the plates. 

For the bottom cake I iced branches and leaves and added the flowers. To create a border, I just placed roses all around the top of the cake and I think it looks quite sweet!

I'm quite proud of this rose in particular.

For the top cake I simply placed roses around the cake to create a simple but effective look. The blue ribbon just makes the cake look so beautiful.

I then placed rose on the top to create a border, added two medium roses on top and of course placed the bride and groom in the centre. I had a bit of blue ribbon left so I just draped it on the cake.

And here is the finished two tier cake standing tall! I'm so relieved it didn't collapse and it looked beautiful surrounded by flowers. 

I will be baking many more cakes in the future....