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! =)

Happy Birthday Blue Girl

Blue Flowers

Cookie Monster

To the girl who is loves anything blue - and green sometimes....Happy 30th Birthday!!

Christy is sometimes known as cookie monster so my imagination department was given a rest and I whipped up a small batch of cookie monster cupcakes for her to have.

Since I was at it, I decided to make some swirls and blue flowers. I finally made use of my new toys - new as in unopened since last October. 

New Year Blooms

Chinese New Year Blooms

If only you could taste these cupcakes! They're so yummy...Orange with passionfruit buttercream. Since Chinese New Year is coming up soon, I thought I'd add some pink blooms to finish off.


I wonder if it will go well with just vanilla cupcakes. 


My brother's birthday is coming up soon and he wants a sponge cake with fresh cream icing...so, guess what I'll be experimenting with next?! I've never made a sponge cake OR decorated a cake with fresh cream so this may get interesting.

Blue Blue Swirls

I had this sudden urge to be experimental last night and decided make rosewater buttercream to cover my cupcakes. A rather interesting taste but I like it.

How does passionfruit icing with vanilla cupcakes for my next experiment sound?! 

Macaroons

Chocolate Macaroons

Chocolate Macaroons

FINALLY!!! Here it is. Macaroons were on my 'To Bake' list and I finally had time to give it a go over the weekend.

It didn't turn out as I'd hope it would. It is rather chewy but my guinea pig said it was yummy and he's polished off the entire plate or maybe he swept it into the bin when I wasn't looking.

I couldn't get it to be a perfect round like the ones you find in shops so I'll have to try it again and make a few adjustments.