Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Buttercream Birthday Cake

It's difficult to get a professional looking finish to a cake with buttercream frosting. Here I have used baby blue food paste for the blue buttercream and then have used melon food paste for the yellow. I crumb coated the cake first with normal coloured buttercream to make sure no crumbs got into the blue buttercream. The blue flowers are made from bluebell Squires flower paste and indented using a sculpting tool to add a little dimesion. As a beginner in cake deocrating this cake (including making the vanilla sponge, slicing, filling and decorating took me little over 3 hours. Sometimes doubt if the effort is worth it though - I mean, after all of those hours it will take seconds to be eaten!  The diametre of this cake is 7" and will serve 10 greedy people.
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Monday, 2 April 2012

Springtime Cake Pops

 Now Spring has sprung why not celebrate with some wonderfully coloured cake pops?! I used vanilla candy drops and fuschia pink sugar paste flowers and green lollipop sticks. How will you decorate yours?
How to make cake pops


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