Rugby Jersey Cake

First off the baking line - Jimmy's belated birthday cake.

Jimmy is an All Blacks fan so the creative department of my brain was given a rest. The toss up was whether to make a jersey or a rugby ball. The jersey won - I was too scared to attempt a rugby ball shaped cake since my cake carving experience is nil.

This is my first 'carved' cake - this was a lot easier than I had thought it would be. Yippeeee! But I was let down by the black icing - it just wasn't going to do I wanted it to do and had lots of cracks/tears.

The cake is a caramel mud cake with white chocolate ganache.

I'm just wondering if I should bake another rugby jersey cake to take into work on Monday

Football Mania

I decided a few months ago that I would attempt to make a football shaped cake for my brother's birthday and so here it is.  I'm apparently not allowed to call it soccer - it's not the done thing.


This would be one of the most difficult cakes I've ever made in my 7 months of cake decorating - I spent almost an entire day in the kitchen creating this football. I must say that there would be quite a few things I would do differently when I make my next football cake.


The template I had copied and cut out did not work well at all so I had to remove all the templates I had laid on to the cake and start over. I decided to cover the cake entirely in white fondant then cut out parts of it to be replaced with black pentagons and scoring lines to make it look like a football.


I really need to do this again - I may take up Ivan's request to fly to Singapore and make this for his birthday! =)