Saturday, November 27, 2010

My Favourite Cake :)

So a friend of mine's (now ex) boyfriend and his twin sister's 23rd birthday was coming up and they live out in the country. My friend decided to order them a country appropriate cake and asked me to make a "cow cake." I made a boy and a girl cow to put on the top made of modeling chocolate (chocolate and corn syrup) so they were edible. The cake itself received cow hide patterned fondant with some icing grass on top for the cows to sit on. The inside was 3 layers and went chocolate, vanilla, chocolate I believe (or vice versa). Everyone really loved the cake.

This is deffinately my favourite cake that I have made I think because I put a lot of effort into it and got creative with using modeling chocolate for the first time.

Thanks for reading as always!

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Bob Marley & Media

Seeing as this blog is for my media studies class, I thought I would do a post related to another one of my media studies assignments. We are currently working on a group project about someone or something who had a major impact on media. My group chose Bob Marley as he majorly effected not only music but also drug culture, a religion, and a country. In today's post, however, I have chosen to focus on the drug aspect rather than the music aspect.
Today's cake is decorated with an icing marijuana leaf. Don't worry there are no illegal substances actually in the cake! I made this cake for someone's birthday and it was a big hit. I thought it was quite well done and have had many requests for more, though I have not accepted any more orders so far.
The cake itself was chocolate and I used techniques learned in my Wilton classes for all of the decorating, from getting the purple icing smooth, to piping the borders, to stenciling the image. Here is a picture:


I am quite proud of this cake despite the subject matter because it turned out really well :)

As always, thanks for reading!

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Remembrance Day

Since it is November 11 - Rememberance Day - I thought it would be appropriate to blog about a cake that I made as a birthday/farewell cake for a friend in the military who was just about to head back overseas.




That is the cake. It was half chocolate, half vanilla. It is covered in fondant which was tricky to do. I had no idea how to do it so I did what I thought might work and hoped for the best and I think it turned out quite nicely. I dyed chunks of my fondant various colours, then i would take pieces of it, roll it into blobby shapes, and then stick them together. After I had done what I though would be enough I got out the rolling pin and carefully rolled out the fondant. The writing and border on the cake are done with buttercream.

Thank you Christian and everyone else serving our country.

Lest We Forget