The Dino..It Attacks Again!

I made another dinosaur cake for my friend, Pye's son's 2nd birthday party. I thought I'd colour it a Tiffany blue, and cut Sugus sweets in halves as spikes on its back & tail. Wanted to use Hershey's kisses, but decided the plain chocolate colour seemed too dull. The cake was chocolate. The legs were pure fondant.

I should learn more about dinosaurs. Don't think my dinosaur existed in real life! To all you paleontologists & dinosaur enthusiasts, please don't send me hate mail.

Busy Busy Bee

This was a Bumblebee cake for my friend, Sally's daughter, Ika Bee. It was a chocolate cake with frosting, with Rocky chocolate sticks as antennae, and paper doilies on sticks as the wings. My only regret was not being able to find black food colouring in time, so my bee had brown stripes instead of black.

Oh.. Bumblebee as in insect, and not the Transformer robot.

Cicakman! Sort of..

Here's my version of Cicakman for Sofea, Renny's niece's birthday. I made an orange butter cake this time. The eyes are half-Oreos, and the teeth are marshmallows. Jokingly told Renny that my Cicakman needed some dental work..

Enter the Snowman

I made this cake for my twin nephews' Christmas party at school. I used Oreo cookies as eyes, an ice-cream cone for the nose, and nicked some Coco Balls from Elise & Eric for the mouth (Thanks kids!). The hat is pure fondant.

The mini-marshmallows are supposed to be snow-but they're actually for the kids' benefit. I'm sure they're the first to go!

New Cakes!

I have 2 new cake orders for this week. One for my friend, Renny's niece's birthday this weekend, and one for my nephews' Christmas party celebration at school. The biggest challenge is the Cicakman cake for Renny's niece! I'll update you on how it turns out.

I haven't decided what to do for my nephews yet, though. My sis wants it to be something different and festive, and I'm racking my brains trying to figure out what that is! Hopefully I'll get some ideas soon!

Dinosaur Attack!

This cake was for my friend's son's 4th birthday. She let me have full reign so I decided to make a dinosaur for him. As usual, the spikes were the first to go. They were full sugar, so parents, I apologise for any sugar rush your children may have had! Next time, I'll try Hershey's kisses for a more interesting twist.

I let the fondant dry a little, so as to make the skin look more authentic & wrinkly.

Cake No. 2

This cake was for Elijaz, Elixir's twin brother. His is a firetruck. It's supposed to be bright red, but I didn't put in enough colouring and it became a bright pink firetruck. I put in Oreo cookies as tyres and Smarties as lights and adornments. Guess what the kids took first-the cookies & candy of course! Luckily I managed to take photos of the cake before the party.

Cake!

I love cooking. I don't do it as much as I would like to (mainly 'cos I'm too lazy!) but I have tons of recipes everywhere around me. I'm lucky that my fella loves my cooking and is a fair critic. (Sometimes too downright honest though!) However, his comments do help and he is supportive of my tendency to overly modify recipes from their original form.

I've recently started making 3D celebratory cakes & muffins. Most recently I made a few cakes for a few birthday parties and I thought I'd post some of them here.

The one above was for my nephew's 1st birthday party. My sis has twin boys, and I made separate cakes for the both of them. The one up here was for Elixir. I originally wanted to make a bumblebee for him, but I went slightly overboard and decided to make him a cake called "Hobbit Fishing at the Shire".