Be careful what you wish for.....

This cake was a non-birthday birthday cake. Upon seeing the photos of my Granny's birthday cake on Facebook a friend asked whether she could have an early birthday cake. We fulfilled the request and delivered the cake to a slightly embarrassed colleague for everyone at work to enjoy.

Rob once again showed his skills as a master carver by making the cake nice and rounded

The cakes were stuck together with our new favourite filling - Italian Meringue Buttercream

Before it got covered in scrummy ganache

We then made it look like a football

And added a scarf based on her favourite teams colours (Man U)

Twit Twoo!

For this cake we tried to combine a 3D figure with some 2D and 3D cake decorations. All of the brown icing was chocolate, combined with chocolate ganache this made a very scrummy cake weighing in at 3kg!

Firstly we ganached the cake and made the main cake decorations

 We then covered the cake in sugarpaste and constructed the tree

 

Then leaves and butterflies were added as well as the owl model on top (sorry forgot to take pictures of his construction!)

Finally we piped a greeting on top before delivering the cake to my wonderful Granny :)

Please note: he was given a beak 5 mins before leaving the house when we realised he didn't have one!

21st Corset Birthday Cake

This week there was another joint effort from the JPN Bakery team (myself and Rob) to make my younger brothers 21st Birthday cake. This one was a lot of fun to make and involved a lot of giggling as we spread the Nutella on......

The master carver started the process before adding the Nutella (we were reduced to giggling at this point so progress slowed down a bit!)

The giggles only got worse as I smoothed the flesh coloured icing on very carefully before giving the little lady some clothing!

Once the underwear was added it was a simple case of adding the final touches to the corset before delivering it to the birthday boy :)

Power Rangers Super Samurai Gold Ranger

Another 3rd birthday cake, this time it was a paired effort from myself and Rob. We made the Power Rangers Super Samurai Gold Ranger with matching samurai symbol cupcakes. To start with we carved the helmet and neck followed by a crumb coating of Italian Meringue butter-cream.

The cake was then covered with white fondant before being sprayed Gold. This stuff is amazing though choc full of e-numbers!

 The helmet was then finished with black fondant decoration

In the meantime we made 24 cupcakes. 5 were covered in a circle of coloured fondant and the appropriate Samurai Symbol for that Ranger. The remainder were piped with swirls.

Nicely arranged ready for the Birthday boy to blow out his 3 candles (again!)

Special 3rd Birthday Pingu Cake

I was lucky enough to be able to make a 3rd birthday cake for my favourite 3 year old :) The theme was 'Pingu'

 Pingu gets constructed

Onto Pinga...

 

Mr Snowman

 

Drying out time :) 

Final Product

A special 30th Birthday Cake

It's been a long time since I've updated this blog, but hopefully I can start posting more regularly again! This weekend I made a very special 30th birthday cake. Things were a bit messy to start with!

Then it looked a lot ruder than it was meant to:

Starting to look a bit better:

The finished piece (ignore the white cotton wool holding the bow up ready for transportation):

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