Fairy Birthday Cake

                                                                    Fairy Birthday Cake

I received this order just after the Arsenal Shirt cake and I have to admit I looked much more forward to doing this. It also gave me a pretty nice break from Christmas cakes and who wouldn't enjoy making a pretty pink birthday cake complete with fondant fairies, flowers, and bumble bees? A classic light white sponge cake with buttercream and jam, pink sugarpaste with piped buttercream and fondant decorations for six year old Zara who I wish a very happy birthday!


I'd also like to reccomend this wonderful invention:

Behold! The grass icing nozzle-it worked a treat:

I have to admit I was pretty proud of the mixture for this cake...

 Just look at those air bubbles!!!

 My friends don't like cakes with jam in. I personally am a traditionalist and therefore commend Zara for having excellent taste. A Victoria sponge with no jam is as pointless as trying to pipe grass without a grass nozzle.

This is one of the first birthday cakes I've made for a party and as much as hope it went down well I hope Zara had a wonderful time and is looking forward to an excellent Christmas Eve Birthday!

Schrodinger's Cat Cake

                                                      Shrodinger's Cat Cake

 Okay so before I delve into the scrumptious details of our half-dead feline friend-I'll explain what all this is about.

So my big brother whom I love dearly but is blatantly insane for optionally taking maths, further maths and physics as his A level options has a pretty cool physics teacher who insists on the weekly tradition of 'Cake Fridays'. The students take turns in bringing in physics themed cakes and for my brother's turn (directed more specifically to my turn) we wanted something pretty special. They've seen a circuit cake, a cake decorated like a galaxy, and a cake decorated with Malteasers to represent a physics theory I don't understand. We opted for Schrodinger's cat.

So unless you're a physicist, have an incredibly geeky sibling or are a Big Bang Theory enthusiast you are probably asking what an undead cat in a gingerbread box has to do with physics. The basic theory is that some Russian or German or something dude named Schrodinger came up with the idea that if you put a cat in a box and leave the lid on the box you don't know if it's dead or alive because, as I said-there's a lid on the box. So while the lid is still on this box and before you've attempted to open it and peek (And this is the kind of cat that doesn't meow or smell when it dies) the cat is both alive and dead.

     
Hence the Schrodinger's cat cake.

So although I'm guessing from the remains the group of physicists greatly appreciated both the gingerbread and the simple sponge cat, which of course, pleased me-my greatest joy in doing this has to be seeing my Mum's face when she walked into a kitchen looking like this:

Gingerbread men

                                                   Gingerbread men

Again, not technically cake, but I found myself baking a gingerbread box for my Shrodinger's cat cake (I'll explain in tomorrow's post) and what better a way to use the left over gingerbread than the good old fashioned classic gingerbread man? Complete with m and ms of course but I am ashamed to reveal that we'd run out of chocolate to dip them in. A failure, I know. I've also saved a little over to make a mini gingerbread house to top our Christmas cake-so stay tuned!

  Now I know this is cheating, and I've made gingerbread from scratch many times before, but I had an entire cat cake to make so I must confess I used ready made gingerbread dough blocks. I have to admit-DELICIOUS. Sainsbury's ready to roll ginger bread dough blocks are just as good raw as they are in any other state you'd like to eat them-so I have to recommend!

Also, while we're on the topic of gingerbread I must pay my respects to the wonderful team at Costa who have made a consciously ginger effort this Christmas-who could resist a gingerbread muffin, gingerbread latte, and of course the classic Gingerbread George? Although I must admit, I loved spooky gingerbread George last halloween and the grabbit rabbit really did capture my heart. Christmas George however does rank just above charlie the chick and of course football George who I could not care less about.

Lemon Meringue Pie

                                                                   Lemon Meringue Pie

Not my highest skill level but top of the year 10 class with a lemon meringue pie when our homework was to make a dish incorporating the lemon curd we'd made that day! Also not my most imaginative I must admit, but close to the tastiest!

Giant Chocolate Birthday Cupcake with Rainbow Buttercream

                                        Giant Chocolate Birthday Cupcake With Rainbow Buttercream

 I made this for my friend's 15th Birthday and yes, as per usual it was an order of chocolate cake. It was however unusual for me to try a giant cupcake-a recent trend sweeping the nation which I was more than excited to use for the first time! Unfortunately I did order the tin on the internet and being somewhat of a technophobe ordered this identical tin 4 times, so we have 3 of those locked away in our cupboard for no apparent purpose. Oh well-I got to try a giant cupcake and my friend got to eat one!

Mini Chocolate Cake For my Friend's 16th Birthday

                                                                 Mini Chocolate cake with oreo decorations

I made a birthday brownie styled chocolate cake for the birthday girl who wasn't too much of a brownie person! Complete with oreo cookies, nutella buttercream, and chocolate shavings as an edge!

So the chocolate cake didn't quite squeeze into the box, the glitter gel pens smudged a little, and the cake ended up being eaten by a herd of teenage girls with plastics spoons on a Thursday lunchtime, but all in all Chloe had an amazing 16th Birthday and told me it was the best cake she'd ever eaten-that day I was even named the queen of cakes and I can't argue with that!

HAPPY 16TH BIRTHDAY CHLOE!!!

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2nd Christmas Cake of the year!!!

                                                                2nd Christmas Cake of the Year!!!

Okay so that's 2 christmas cakes down and 3 to go! (One of which is for us...) I made this one for my (slightly crazy) Nan and my Dad is delivering it to her as we speak! I've been told the biggest problem with my cakes is that I add too many cute characters which guilt people out of consumption, instead of taking this as constructive criticism I heard only the compliment and continued to create them.

If my kitchen didn't suffer-it wouldn't be a good cake.

MERRY CHRISTMAS :D