Modelling - Teddy Bears' Picnic

My first foray into modelling...

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.

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!

Castle cake, take one

Castle cakes can be as simple or as difficult as you like. This one was pretty straight forward, mostly because I used meringue butter cream and lollies instead of fondant and piped decorations. I'm pretty sure I'll try variations on this, hence the take one.

The cake was made from four quantities of a standard butter cake, baked in a 25 cm pan, 12.5 cm pan and lamington tray. The turrets were cut from the lamington tray using a medium sized scone cutter, topped with waffle cones. The whole thing was cemented together using chocolate ganache and lots of cake dowels.

Here's a shot in progress:

And here's the finished product:

So there you have it, about the easiest castle cake going. From all reports, the birthday girl enjoyed it. I certainly had fun putting it together.