Mother's Day

I made this cake for a friend's mum for Mother's Day. He didn't give me much info on what he wanted - just said "pink with flowers"...



This is an 8" madeira cake filled with raspberry jam and vanilla buttercream. I covered the cake with sugarpaste (fondant) which I coloured using pink food colour paste.

I used a smoother to erm, smooth down the top and sides of the cake and then piped a line of shells around the base of the cake.

I then applied (with royal icing) the gerbera daisies that I had cut out with a gerbera cutter in pink and white sugarpaste. I used a ball toll to soften each petal and curl them up slightly, and added a disc of yellow sugarpaste in the centre. I used a metal seive to give a bit of texture to them.

I also cut lots of little blossoms with a blossom plunger which I attached again with royal icing around the edge of the cake board and along the side of the cake. I then piped yellow icing into the centre of each blossom.

Finally I piped "Happy Mother's Day" and was good to go!

When said friend came to pick up the cake he was very pleased with it - and so, I hear, was his mum who said it was delicious!

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Itsa me - Mario!

I made this cake for my son's 10th birthday - he loves Nintendo and I just had to make him a Mario themed birthday cake!

The cake is an 8" madeira with jam and vanilla buttercream filling covered in sugarpaste (fondant). I then brushed over blue lustre dust and used star shaped embossers around the sides of the cake. I piped a row of royal icing stars and piped the words freehand.

Mario himself is a bit on the portly side, but it gives him his charm! He is made out of sugarpaste (fondant), as are the two mushrooms that sit by his side. The stars that embellish the sides were cut out with a star plunger cutter and attached with a little royal icing.

I love this cake - and so did my son and his friends!

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