I'm not so much a fan of eating them as I am making them. I love it - I don't really care if anyone eats them, they must just be displayed - well the good ones at least :)
I have two flatmates, who have always been keen to be my guinea pigs, so at least I didn't have to try any of them. These are obviously super amateur, but I am proud of them and have posted a few below to share with you.
O by the way, sometimes cupcakes are way more fun, depends on the mood. They just take long!
I'm starting at the very beginning. This Barbie cake was for my friend, Anina's bachelorette two years ago. I don't think anybody ever ate this cake, but we enjoyed looking at it. This was a first attempt and came out better than predicted. It was however challenging as my hand was cramping for weeks after attempting this. I also used my mothers lazy susan as I don't have a rotating thing..
Next up was a cake for my flatmate's Island birthday party (yes... I live with grown-ups) - I thought this one was quite a success and made up of all the toys I could find around the apartment. I am still to find a cake recipe that doesn't look like it's been squashed between two pans...
Now this one didn't come out exactly as planned. I felt VERY creative, but obviously slightly hungover and not as I envisioned it to be. Nevertheless, this was for my friend Eugene's birthday. It didn't really have a theme, I just made one up - It's meant to be Eugene in a life raft with a treasure chest...
I had a pirate birthday (I LOVE themes!) for my 27th birthday and made my very first fondant cake. I actually loved the look of this cake - cannot for the life of me remember the taste though. I do remember the crappy taste of rum in my mouth the next morning and crying when my friend asked me to breakfast.
Well, ok yes, it's not completely covered in fondant. I don't think I'll ever be able to do that, but will off course keep trying. Then it was Halloween and I started playing around with smaller fondant figures and cupcakes :) :)
The one with the white thing on is meant to be a blade with blood everywhere.. This was before I discovered Tylose powder, so as soon as the fondant was out of the fridge it got soft and ended up looking like a 'vrot' flower.
Frikkie had a birthday again the following year (as you do...) and this time the theme was Mexican. Again, the cake didn't come out exactly as planned, with the chilli's looking like carrots etc. However the cool thing is that this is a 7 minute microwave cake that had smarties inside - like a piñata! That at least was a cool surprise.
Moving along swiftly - I realise this is getting boring. Long story short, I started experimenting with Sugarveil, butter cookies, more cupcakes and a dessert:
These are moustache's, not lips.
This is sugarveil. Expensive and hard to come by, I've only played with this once. It also take WEEKS to dry :(
Halloween again ... The little 'spokie' makes me very happy!
Cheesecakes should not be decorated... However, this one made it all the way on the plane to Johannesburg
This, I call the berry Star pie - it's basically berries with stars and was for Christmas. It looks much nicer than what it was...
Guess what... It was Frikkie's birthday again - this time Tight and Bright (yes... he also loves themes!) I got awesome neon food colouring at my local baking store which I love working with!
Something simple for my Gran's 80th
And red velvet with fondant roses for my boss' birthday
Lastly, this weekend I made cupcakes for the Christmas in July party at Cafe Caprice. I made little snowmen, reindeer and random white cupcakes with snowflakes. It was quite a mission to find and make white icing, but it worked our really well and didn't taste too bad :)
All the cupcakes were devoured by drunk people :)
Iced, sealed and delivered. Good night :)
PS: #cupcakes #xmas #cafecaprice #barbie #baking #hashtag
I have two flatmates, who have always been keen to be my guinea pigs, so at least I didn't have to try any of them. These are obviously super amateur, but I am proud of them and have posted a few below to share with you.
O by the way, sometimes cupcakes are way more fun, depends on the mood. They just take long!
I'm starting at the very beginning. This Barbie cake was for my friend, Anina's bachelorette two years ago. I don't think anybody ever ate this cake, but we enjoyed looking at it. This was a first attempt and came out better than predicted. It was however challenging as my hand was cramping for weeks after attempting this. I also used my mothers lazy susan as I don't have a rotating thing..
Next up was a cake for my flatmate's Island birthday party (yes... I live with grown-ups) - I thought this one was quite a success and made up of all the toys I could find around the apartment. I am still to find a cake recipe that doesn't look like it's been squashed between two pans...
Now this one didn't come out exactly as planned. I felt VERY creative, but obviously slightly hungover and not as I envisioned it to be. Nevertheless, this was for my friend Eugene's birthday. It didn't really have a theme, I just made one up - It's meant to be Eugene in a life raft with a treasure chest...
I had a pirate birthday (I LOVE themes!) for my 27th birthday and made my very first fondant cake. I actually loved the look of this cake - cannot for the life of me remember the taste though. I do remember the crappy taste of rum in my mouth the next morning and crying when my friend asked me to breakfast.
Well, ok yes, it's not completely covered in fondant. I don't think I'll ever be able to do that, but will off course keep trying. Then it was Halloween and I started playing around with smaller fondant figures and cupcakes :) :)
The one with the white thing on is meant to be a blade with blood everywhere.. This was before I discovered Tylose powder, so as soon as the fondant was out of the fridge it got soft and ended up looking like a 'vrot' flower.
Frikkie had a birthday again the following year (as you do...) and this time the theme was Mexican. Again, the cake didn't come out exactly as planned, with the chilli's looking like carrots etc. However the cool thing is that this is a 7 minute microwave cake that had smarties inside - like a piñata! That at least was a cool surprise.
Moving along swiftly - I realise this is getting boring. Long story short, I started experimenting with Sugarveil, butter cookies, more cupcakes and a dessert:
These are moustache's, not lips.
This is sugarveil. Expensive and hard to come by, I've only played with this once. It also take WEEKS to dry :(
Halloween again ... The little 'spokie' makes me very happy!
Cheesecakes should not be decorated... However, this one made it all the way on the plane to Johannesburg
This, I call the berry Star pie - it's basically berries with stars and was for Christmas. It looks much nicer than what it was...
Guess what... It was Frikkie's birthday again - this time Tight and Bright (yes... he also loves themes!) I got awesome neon food colouring at my local baking store which I love working with!
Something simple for my Gran's 80th
And red velvet with fondant roses for my boss' birthday
Lastly, this weekend I made cupcakes for the Christmas in July party at Cafe Caprice. I made little snowmen, reindeer and random white cupcakes with snowflakes. It was quite a mission to find and make white icing, but it worked our really well and didn't taste too bad :)
All the cupcakes were devoured by drunk people :)
Iced, sealed and delivered. Good night :)
PS: #cupcakes #xmas #cafecaprice #barbie #baking #hashtag
