Cake Blog

A teeny tiny birthday cake!

This cake is cruisin’!

For decorating this cake and cupcakes, I used a combination of fondant, buttercream icing, and colored sugar. It gave me some more practice making little fondant details for the cupcakes!

My first foray with fondant!!! I made this cake the month that the iPad was released, for a birthday of a loyal Apple user and fan (like myself). I first made a rough sketch of the design, and baked a rectangular cake.  I used pre-made Wilton fondant, and coloured portions with food colour. I created…

The best kind of steak is steak cake! This was a double layered red velvet cake.  I coloured most of the white icing red, and blended it on the cake with white to get the fat marbling effect. This fine cut of sweet meat was specially prepared for my friend Kim’s birthday,  inspired by her…

For artists with a sweet tooth!

Happy Halloween!

A Halloween treat (or everyday meal if you are a brain-eating zombie)! I made a layered circular cake, carved the basic brain shape, and then piped the cerebrum and cerebellum with different size round tips, using a fluffy white icing. I added the red vessels once the white icing had cooled, and then kept it…

Here is another cake that would have really benefited from using fondant instead of icing, but I had not yet discovered the joys of fondant at this point…