Cake-O-Rama
And I've done it yet again - I've rambled on about making more posts, as a New Year's resolution and everything. Silly me. Time to just admit I'm not the natural born blogger... It doesn't mean I don't have plenty to write about here. For example, as a result of not writing here in ages, I now have a handful of cakes to show off. And that's despite the fact that I've accepted very few baking assignments since last summer. So yes, it's been a while since I last wrote...As spring tries to emerge outside, interrupted by the occasional storm-like weather (ok, maybe just relatively persistent wind...), some snow (that melts by midday) and a rather scarce amount of sunny days (really, I'm wondering whether I might be suffering from vitamin D-deficiency), I'm having fun with the first cold of the year. What better to do when the brain is generally on vacation than looking at some colourful cake pictures and sharing them with you? Almost a bit psychedelic, really... Hope you like!
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| This was a Father's Day marzipan cake. Raspberry and whipped cream and moist sponge cake underneath the blue marzipan, and edible silver-spray pattern and silver pearls for decoration (and a small blue rose, of course...). The pattern comes from an old teapot stand we've inherited from my husbands grandparents. |
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| Sonar-cake for my father-in-law's birthday. Hooray! We had it at the in-laws cottage, so the cake traveled quite a bit and was hidden for a while before it was revealed and enjoyed :) |
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| I just had to add the gingerbread house I made with my kids - the generous splashes of icing courtesy of Emma :3 |
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| Look, there's our family - I'm supposedly the one with the sagging boobs and a mysterious green growth coming out of my torso... |
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| Here's a royal chocolate cake in honour of a very loveable and beautiful princess that we care a lot about. Chocolate cakes with chocolate cream, and chocolate roll cake in the towers with ice cream cones on top. |
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| Some glitter, sprinkles, icing... |
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| ...pearls, butterflies and buttercream, and we have a yummy and sweet princess-castle! |
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| Butterly-cake for a sophisticated, little birthday-girl. |
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| It took some time to make all the butterflies, with the shading and a touch of pearl spray. The clue with the royal-icing-butterly was, well... Not to brake it once dried. Brittle stuff! |
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| Christening cake for an adorable little girl. Handmade sugar paste flowers, vanilla fondant and marzipan for the cake lids. Juicy light chocolate cake with raspberries, raspberry jam and cream inside (yes, one of my regulars) :) |
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| It's bigger than it looks... |
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| No comments about the teddy being cross-eyed :p |
