Pile of presents

As posted previously, I decided to re-use the exploding stars cake topper for Smidge's birthday cake. I decided to make a pile of presents cake to make sure the whole thing didn't end up looking too much like a wedding cake; he's only one after all. The cake is a dairy-free coconut, and was delicious.

Chocolate fences

Chocolate curls and fences, secured with ganache. A simple way to get a striking cake. Striping the curls makes it look even more impressive. This one was a chocolate mud cake, and served as birthday cake for a male friend.

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.