Exploding stars cake

Finally, a finished cake. I'm very happy with it, and will most likely re-use the topper in Smidge's first birthday cake in a couple of weeks. Sadly he can't have this one as it contains dairy.

This week in cakes

The week started off with Mothers' Day, celebrated with a chocolate cake covered in ganache and decorated with leaves made from chilli chocolate. Its tiered because I didn't have a deep 23cm pan, so ended up using a 20cm sandwich and 12.5cm deep.

Closely followed by a sheet sponge on Monday for a birthday dinner. No photo of that - it was pretty plain to look at, although I'm told the eating was good.

Thursday and Friday I made my first topsy turvy. Not a bad result for a first try. In fact, it was good enough to get me a query about a wedding cake!

The design was chosen by the birthday girl's mum, and is a pretty close replica of one made by Pink Box Cakes. Black fondant is not my friend!

Modern cakes, week two

This week we worked on assembling our toppers and icing our boards. I'm fairly happy with the way my topper has worked out.

Modern cakes

I've finally started my second cake decorating course. This one is modern cakes, and is the sort of stuff I'm interested in. It runs for six weeks, and we're going to decorate up to three cakes. I wish there were time to do more, but given each class only runs for two hours, there just isn't enough time.

No cake this week, sadly. We prepared cut-outs to put on top of a two-tiered cake. Given that I have a first birthday party coming up, my cut-outs were of ones and stars. Pictures to come when the cake is complete.