February Week 2... Shapes...Circles..

I was actually really looking forward to this week but I missed it in a flury of activity so now here's a slightly rushed post to try keep up.

So I've picked the easiest shape for a baker... a circle.

I'm going to start with a cake I made last week for one of my parents work collegues who wanted one of my mum's chocolate fudge cakes and he added 'with just more chocolate.'

So here's the finished cake, four layers of dark chocolate fudge cake with a creams chocolate frosting and handmade chocolate shards covering the sides.

And next we have todays new experiment.. welsh cakes. I've decided these are a hybrid of a cornish scone and an american pancake. Making these with my 3 year old niece was a laugh and they seemed to go down well. I guess these will be on the market list from now on.

Tuesday: Colours.... Blue

I found todays word a bit harder as there aren't too any blue cakes that I've made or know of so flicking through my folder of cake related photos with a niece on wither knee I found two.

The first being a cake that me and mum came up with a few years ago as a birthday cake, my big brother, sister and now her daughter all have their birthday in the same week in July so we needed a summer themed cake. I normally make a few layers then fill them with strawberries but this particular cake was to be taken to Mounts Bay School as a cake for the staff. Covered in blueberries and Cornish blackberries I thought it was fitting for todays photo.

The second photo my eldest niece insisted that I post today as it was her 5th birthday cake from last year, I mean what five year old doesn't want an R2D2 birthday cake?

Cakes: Peppa Pig

I have three little nieces and they are the cutest things in the world, the can also be a pain I love them to pieces. So anyway every year I ask the oldest who's now 5 what she would like for her birthday cake, I figured she has about 10 aunts and uncles so a novelty cake is a perfect present for her.

Last year she asked for Peppa Pig, Woody and Buzz Lightyear and Fireman Sam in the corner, so I explained that she would have to pick one. After much deliberating she came up with Peppa Pig so here's how I did it.


Step one (Left), a vanilla tray bake with a strawberry jam filling.



Step two or three.. (Right) this is the part that takes the most time, I created tones of buttercream icing as that's her favorite and coloured it accordingly. I had to do this a few times to get the right colours and so no cake showed. Once done I chilled the cake overnight.

To finish I piped on the the finishing details  and made a sugar paste wand, with the extra icing I piped some 'oink's around her just to finish.

The bottom photo is lopsided but there is what remained after me nieces go to the cake. It went down brilliantly.

Alot easier than I thought.