Cakes n Cupcakes

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

60th Birthday Cake

We made this for a client who was having a really big party for their mum and grandma's 60th Birthday.

Bottom tier is a 15 inch Vanilla Cake with Chocolate Cream filling and Chocolate crumbled balls, while the top tier is a 10 inch Vanilla and Chocolate layer cake with Milky Cream filling.

Full Pix

We made the grandma, kids, toys, bags, grandma's chair as well as the bows from gum paste, this had to have been made well ahead so they would harden properly.

Side View

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

4th Year Wedding Anniversary Cake

You know how you have some clients and they simply just stay with you from the beginning till forever, well this guy is one of such clients for us........and so we were all out to please him on his 4th Year Wedding Anniversary.

We made him a 2 tier cake, top is an 8inch Vanilla cake with milky cream filling and chocolate chips, while the bottom is also a vanilla cake with chocolate cream filling and peanut butter chocolate balls crushed on it.

We made the couple and 2 children with gum paste and gave the couple a marriage ring to sit under plus two red hearts.

We also made a lot of roses for the top tier.

All in all it was back breaking but we loved and i mean totally loved the outcome.......even my hubby said
" the guy must have a really beautiful wife" !

So finally here's the cake :

Banana Chocolate Cake....

So last week was definitely our CHOCOLATE FIESTA WEEK...........every client wanted something with chocolate, here's one of them and how we made it.

1. Banana Cake with fruits, chocolate chips, nuts and cherries filled with white chocolate cream and covered in dark chocolate cream with a melted dark chocolate pour and white and dark chocolate curls.........!

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Beef Burger Cake

SO this client calls and she says it her husband's birthday and she wants something unique, and he loves his BEEF so we decided to make him a BEEF BURGER.

Was a lot of work see the link below for the work in progress photos:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151089417301388&set=a.446686986387.229371.178318986387&type=3&theater

So here's the final art work and we are so glad we could pull it off for her.

Oh did i mention i almost got whisked in to recipient's office as his wife when i said the cake was from his wife with an air of........"

Thank you Bidemi for letting us be part of your hubby's day.

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Apprenticeship Class - Vanilla Cake

We run 3 months Apprenticeship Courses where we teach you loads and loads of stuff from cake baking to cake decorating. Students get exposed to lots of cake flavours and cake artistry in general, wedding cakes, kiddies cakes etc etc. Its a full disclosure class, cos the student is like our staff and we expect her to be able to do all these things on her own after the 3 months period.

So meet Juliet : she didn't come in yesterday (and of course lets blame everything on the rain right) so today as soon as she came in today and i said ......

"You are making me a 6 inch Tripple Layered Vanilla Cake, and you have just 10mins to ask me any question you want, after the 10 mins, do not call me until you have my 3 layers of cake baked".

And thank God she didn't fall my hand (for those not acquainted with our beloved pidgin english, that means she didn't fail).....here she is with her 3 layers of well baked vanilla cake !

I pinched a little off the top of one while she earnestly searched my face for a verdict, but as a true teacher, you never score all the points so score is "YOU TRIED (with a small smile)" kapish !!!

Class closed for today girl !

Monday, July 2, 2012

Butter cream Cake 1

Ok so last weekend our beloved Buttercream Queen (we call her that cos she orders ever so often and no matter how large the cake is she always wants it in buttercream cover)........wanted a cake for her church and one again in buttercream........colour themes Cream and Chocolate.

So we took it home with one of the basics of butter cream decorating for every beginner - BASKET WEAVE with buttercream. Believe me when i say this took a lot of love to complete and with my fingers aching i smiled from deep within when i was thru.

So here it is.

We're back

Been a long while i've blogged anything, guess, we've been soo busy and sometime with staff coming and some going out, its been pretty difficult managing mails, Facebook, Twitter, Linked-in GOSH!!! when did the social networks become sooooo many.

Ok so thank God for some help now, i can have a little time to blog about my cake artistry.

So gooood to be back !

Oh and did i mention that since i've been away, i got married to the most brilliant, loving and sexiest man in the world ! So thats me in my home, and am soooooo happy !!!

More Cake Stuff coming right up !