April Shopping

What I got on a couple of shopping trips this month. Been a bit busy so haven't had much of a chance to play with some of them but the cutters and rolling pin have been great!

What to do with left over sponge.

Left over sponge.

Mini iced cakes

 

Cut out shapes using cookie cutter from the sponge I only had small pieces of sponge leftover so used the smallest cutters that I had.

 

Place the little sponges on a cooling rack and pour icing ( royal) over them then add decorations let dry and there done. 

Cake pops.

I love making cake pops they are so easy to make. All you have to do is mix the sponge crumbs with butter cream then roll into ball shapes. After letting them set in the fridge attach a lollipop stick using a bit of melted chocolate or candymelts. When the chocolate drys dip the cake pop into melted chocolate or candymelts the add sprinkles or whatever decorations that you would like. 

Up the Dubs!!!

Dublin GAA Jersey cake.

Was asked to make this cake last week and couldn't wait to get started! It was to be given to members of the Dublin GAA  team as a thank you for their work in the Easter camp. I made it from vanilla sponge using two square tins a 12 x 12 inch tin and a 8 x 8 inch tin. The main part of the cake was made using the bigger size cake after trimming the outside edges and cutting the v at the top. The sleeves I cut from the smaller cake and attached them using buttercream. I coated the cake in a thick layer of buttercream before putting the fondant on the cake. I painted the GAA and O'NEILLS on using coloured royal icing and made the crest and THANK YOU from fondant. I attached the details with water and a thin brush. Also the board that it is on is 14 x 14 inches.

The back of the cake.

The view from the back showing the details of the color and the stripes on the shoulders.

All wrapped up and ready to go.

Easter Cupcakes

I made these cupcakes for Easter. They where lemon flavored and decorated with lemon butter cream, green coconut and mini eggs. I made the green coconut by mixing green food colour and coconut together. It's so easy and great for decorating everything like cookies and cakes.

First Post! What I'v made so far this April

Birthday Cake for my cousins.

Was asked to make my two little cousins a birthday cake. Katie-Mae was turning 4 and J.D was turning 3, as their birthdays are only a couple of days apart they have a joint birthday. Came up with this idea only the night before so ended up staying up till after 4am to make it. Can't complain I did really have fun making all the flowers and cars. It was made of chocolate sponge and vanilla butter cream. I think it turned out pretty well from something thought up last minute.

Colourful flower and butterfly cake.

I have been waiting for ages to try this. I took a while to cut out all the flowers and mix the colours and as I didn't have a leaf cutter I had to make them myself. That took a while to get right. I covered the cake in white fondant after the butter cream and then cover in the flowers and butterfly's using royal icing. I also covered the cake board in fondant cutout leaves.

The inside of the cake.

I wanted the inside to be as colourful as the outside so split the sponge in into five or six and mixed in different colours. I used three sandwich tins that I kind of randomly poured the different colours into. I put them together with a layer of vanilla butter cream between each layer of sponge.