Star Wars Lego cake

I tried to take as many pictures as possible to demonstrate the steps involved. This cake was a good challenge because of the Lego aspect and the fact I knew very little about Star Wars...that's changed.

Ta da!

The lower tier is a 10" blue raspberry vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream icing filling...sounds yummy already. The top is a 6" chocolate cake with caramel and chocolate chip buttercream icing. I use Marshmallow fondant which does a beautiful job of sealing in moisture and giving the cake a clean look.

My Light saber factory. They look simple but took a lot of patience. Once dry after assembly I dusted the handles with silver petal dust.

Fondant Lego piece body parts. I used lots of Google images and added as much detail as I could because you know that 9 year old who lives Star Wars will notice.

Darth Maul gave me the creeps even without arms and a weapon.

Obi Wan and Darth Vader await assembly.

Luke Skywalker, R2D2 and Qui-Gon Jinn hanging out to dry.

Here's the gang.  Obi -Wan, Darth Vader, CP3O, Luke, R2D2, Darth Maul and Qui-Gon Jinn almost ready.

A Debbie Brown technique to applying fondant.  An alternative to drapping.

Measure and cut a perfect piece then roll it on,  flawless really except for the tricky seam to blend.  Now I'm loving the light sabers :)  worked perfect to hide the imperfection.  try to spot it!

Her technique provides a great product but requires a topper piece.

So I did airbrushed silver with star cutouts, some later to be filled in with coordinating black stars.

Fondant ready to go on the 10" cake that was 4" high. So it had to be at least 20 x 20 .  This is a very good arm workout. 

Went on great, always measure and mark all reference points.

I love airbrushing it beats kneading colour in forever only to be left with streaks.

Bases are done....now to add the fun.  This is the best part when you get to see it all come together. 

The gang is good to go, weapons and all.

Now he really scares me with arms and double ended saber.

Notice Darth Vaders already taken Lukes right Lego arm.  Thanks Dad.

Poor Luke.

Some more Character shots

Some Final cake shots

And roughly 20 hours later it's done and ready for a party.

  Enjoy Chase and I hope your cake is one you'll always remember as being super Yummers.

Where's Frosty??

75 snowmen for the holidays.

These were inspired by Bakerella, http://www.bakerella.com/snowman-cake-pops/ snowman cake pops from her new book. I had promised to deliver 75 pieces and was wondering how I would pull it off after doing a few. You need lots of patience and time. Both of which I didn't have that day. I did them in steps as to not burn out. You also need space for 150+ cake balls, they were in every fridge and freezer. I did all choc. cake which when going with light colour candy coating would not be recommended. I had to use white candy wafers when really I wanted super white (only in US). Assembly was time consuming but I was really happy with how they turned out. I would recommend skipping the double ball snowman and just doing hat and head next time. If you are going to try this it's vital to add flocoat candy oil to candy prior to colouring paste.

Cars cake

Right out of Radiator Springs!!

And egg free too! that was the hard part! I got it in the end with the bottom being chocolate chocolate chip with vanilla buttercream and the top vanilla with chocolate chip buttercream icing. Both tiers are covered in airbrushed marshmallow fondant. I had to make my own stencil for the racing flag, but it worked out great. The pylons are modeling chocolate. The logo, Mater and Lightening Mcqueen are all fondant with some airbrushing on Mater for rust. My friend who ordered this is a dentist so I had fun exaggerating Maters overjet. I even made a few sets of tires for the adults. They were choc. dipped mini oreos. It was so special to make Connor a REAL egg free cake instead of another ice cream cake.

40 or bust!

Sister's 40th birthday.
Fun in the sun.

Rich chocolate Skor cake with Chocolate Ganache. This is one I got to eat. My theme was Fortys' not that scary when you look this good...so have another drink!!

Cheesecake

My husband loves cheese so he got a cheesecake for his birthday.

Would you believe he doesn't like desserts though?? So he never had a bite. Don't worry I ate his piece. It was coconut flavoured cake Pina Colada Buttercream....Yummers!!!! This cake will always make me smile because my 5 year old son had to keep it a secret for 3 months until we made it. He was ready to pop by Nov. 14 - Happy Birthday Dad!

Monster pops for Halloween

For the school kids.

These were for my two boys to take for there Halloween Parties. Our madness behind monsters was that they could scare away the "sugar bugs". They also co-ordinated with the labels on the toothbrushes they gave to each class mate. Yes I'm in dental. These are upside down mini cupcakes held on the coloured popsicle stick by melted choc. and then iced with grass tip. The eyes and mouth are fondant. I made a teacher version that was a double high cupcake. My wrist was shot after piping 50 of these....worth it though. The monster were obvious too friendly as my boys both had cavities in November :(

Cowgirl themed party

This was a fun cake with alot of detail. It was very vanilla all through. I covered it with cowhide fondant and then drapped with a girly bandanna. The bandanna is purple tinted fondant airbrushed with a paisley stencil which was custom made by a good friend. All the toppers are modeling chocolate. I worked 1 week in advance to give everything a good chance to harden. Apparently this cowgirl did not like cake but couldn't resist this one and ate a whole piece on her birthday. That makes it worth it for me!

Happy Birthday Charlie!

Cow Hide fondant

Purple fondant that is airbrushed with a darker purple.  I used a stencil for this.  Once draped on the cake it looked real.

Space themed party

The party that this cake was for was at the Manitoba Museum.

Strawberry Shortcake

Berry Delicious!!!

As most people know I love SBSC so when I got the chance for a little sweetheart of mine I when all out. This cake took alot of time but mostly because my hubby turned on the undercabinet lighting one night and completely melted my sculptures by accident. So start again...SBSC, Puptart (puppy), Custard (cat) and berries are all moldeling chocolate. It was a challenge as time is a factor when sculpting with chocolate. The heat from my hands would often ruin the intricate details ie.details on shirt. Lots of running them under cold water. Flowers and leaves are marshmallow fondant. This cake was white and pink vanilla layers in both tiers with lightly flavored Strawberry Buttercream. I didn't leave much space for a candles...oops. I'm glad they had to cut this cake and not me!!