1st Birthday Cake x 3

A while ago I had the pleasure of designing three similar birthday cakes for a special little one year old, who was having three parties!

Her parents wanted each cake to be in the shape of the number one, and all of them to be pink.
I kept the same blossom theme for each one but changed the details.

This was the first cake I made with pretty blossoms and building blocks shaped from sugarpaste to spell out 'one today'.

This cake was for the second party, this time I made a rag doll and teddy bear from modelling paste.

There was going to be a ball pool at this party so I made it the feature for this cake. I rolled out two long sausage shapes and joined the ends to form rings for the ball pool, then filled it with rolled balls of modelling paste and a little head poking up through.



Each cake was carved in to the shape of a number one, and filled with a thin layer of buttercream before being covered with sugarpaste.

A is for Apple...

 

 

B is for Bear...

 

 And C is for Cake!

This was the third cake, with a similar design but focused on the building blocks spelling out A, B, C.

A teddy dog made from modelling paste.

These cakes were a lot different to what I had made in the past and were a lot of fun to make.

Hope you liked them too!

 

 

Purple & Silver Wedding Cake

Back in September I made a Wedding cake for a couple who wanted a purple and silver themed cake.

After deciding on the design they went for a three tiered stacked cake. (They sent me a picture of a cake - so all credit for the original design goes to Cupkates.)
This was a 10", 8" and 6".

They wanted Cadbury's Purple ribbon on the bottom and top tiers, and Silver ribbon on the middle.
The middle tier was coloured purple to complement the purple ribbon, with silver hearts cut from modelling paste.
The bottom and top tiers had stripes of purple sugarpaste and the top tier had little purple hearts on it.
The top was left clear because the groom was sorting out a surprise topper.

I had white sugarpaste (fondant) which I coloured purple myself with Grape Violet Sugarflair paste colour. I just added more colour using a cocktail stick until I got a colour close to the Cadbury's purple.

 

 

The bottom and middle tiers were a moist, light fruit cake covered with marzipan and sugarpaste.
The top tier was vanilla sponge filled with jam and vanilla buttercream, covered with sugarpaste.

The silver hearts were cut from modelling paste then painted with a metallic silver dusting powder which is completely edible.