Sesame Street Cake

And for my second project this past week I decorated this cake for my precious godson, Andrew who turned 1 last week.

The top tier is actually a dummy tier. And the bottom tier made from a layer of strawberry cake (made by Andrew's Mum), and a chocolate layer (made by Andrew's Dad). So all I needed to do on this one was construct it, ice it, and make the little figures. Hope you can tell what they are all supposed to be! (I think it you click on the photo it should enlarge if you want a closer look!)

And this is the cake once cut... it reminds me of that Neapolitan ice cream that you can buy.

Happy birthday little Andrew... you're an awesome wee guy!

White Cake Mix

Well I must first apologise for not blogging for a while. I have been busy putting on a special party for my wee man who turned 1. He had an under the sea party. I think he enjoyed himself!

On that note I present... the cake!

The top tier was my normal rich chocolate cake that I have used for most of the birthday cakes I have made so far. The bottom tier is made with a white cake mix I purchased from kiwicakes. It's a special cake mix that contains no butter or egg yolks, so it is much whiter than the usual vanilla cake you see. For a cake mix I was quite pleased with it. It was moist and soft, and had quite a subtle taste to it. I think it would be nice in a wedding cake or other formal cakes that have white icing on them.

I made the piece of cake in the picture into a little turtle "smash" cake... which eventually ended up like this:

Ladybird 1st Birthday Cakes :)

I made these cakes for a little girl who was turning one. The large ladybird is a banana cake. It was a bit of a challenge cooking such a large cake in a stainless steel bowl (it was a triple mixture), but I got there in the end!

And I made a little "smash cake" so the birthday girl could go nuts with it. That one was a plain vanilla cake inside.

And I wasn't 100% sure the main cake would be big enough for all the guests, so I made a chocolate cake that they could cut up if they needed more.

Subaru Cake

Just thought I would post a couple of piccys of my latest cake: