Saturday, 5 January 2013

Christmas cake!

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This was of course made before Christmas but as usual my posts are late! i wanted to go for a 'Santa stuck in the Chimney' theme but I managed to leave Santa's legs til the end of the time I had and ended up running out of time so the legs and feet are not so pretty =P

The bottom layer was carrot cake with a cream cheese frosting and covered in marshmallow fondant and the top layer was a chocolate cake filled and covered with chocolate ganache- a chocolate heaven!

The wee snowmen and Christmas trees I made a couple of days before and they were made out of marshmallow fondant. I didn't actually have any cutters that would have helped so instead I just used a fondant embellisher for an outline and then cut them out with a small sharp knife. The little stars were made with a plunger cut out for stars which is a very handy tool =) And I used liquid gels to paint on the wee details and let them dry overnight.

 I was really happy with how smooth the ganache went on to the cake and what a professional look it gave to the cake. I am pretty sure that i might have tried to use ganache before but wasn't as convinced but now I honestly want to use ganache for everything! If only you could make it in a fat free way! I decided to make a brick effect since it was to be a chimney which obviously means you cant see how smooth it is but next time =P




I do wish that the carrot cake had the height of the chocolate cake but I forgot how dense carrot cake is! then the proportions of the cake would have been better for the idea of the cake I think. But I guess too much chocolate cake can never be a bad thing!

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Friday, 27 January 2012

Christmas 2011!

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I had lots of fun with this cake which was for my family and my mums side of the family! It was hard because I was using my boyfriend's parents kitchen and so I wasnt as used to their kitchen, I had forgotten a lot of things and just generally trying not to get in the way of what his family were doing!

The cake was a carrot cake. Because it is my boyfriends favourite, I have been making this more and more although grating carrots is not the most exciting of tasks hehe!
I had seen a lot of penguin cakes and thought that they were so cute so I set about making penguins and baking. Here is the end result;

I think this is the more detailed cake that I have done before but I think it came together very nicely! The trees I had done before on Chris's 22nd birthday cake so I was able to do them a wee bit easier- I just added icing sugar for snow and stuck on edible glitter balls as decoration! The snowballs were obviously the easiest to do but i thought they were sooooo cute!
The penguin with the snowball in his hand was going to the evil penguin from 'Wallace and Gromit' but I decided this after making it so if I could change it I would make him thinner and the glove on his head would be yellow instead, but I will learn from it! It was supposed to be christmas lights around the igloo just for a bit of fun. My absolute FAVOURITE party of this cake has to be the wee bum from the penguin getting stuck in the igloo, I was most excited to do that part I have to admit hehe! And yes, penguins regularly ski down igloos =D Obviously the main thing that I would change would be the writing but at 1 in the morning I was getting shaky haha! And maybe I would have wanting it to be a bit bigger, width wise so that I could have spread out the presents and added more details! Although I would have been happy just continuing making details!

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