Cakes...by Glenda

Birthday Pies....

2008-03-24T04:46:00.001-07:00

Here is the cake I made my nephew Brendan for his 11th birthday!

So quick and easy!! He loved it :)

A Castle for a Princess

2007-01-18T22:23:00.000-08:00

Isabella asked for a castle cake for her 5th birthday party and I was excited to tackle this one.

I searched around on the net for ideas and finally came up with something I was happy with.

I started off with 3 butter cake mixes for the bottom and made 2 slabs (to give it the height I needed). I then made 2 round cakes for the top and a batch of chocolate cupcakes for the base of the turrets.
I inserted straws in the cake and cut them at the required length so the top layers were supported and didn't make the cream all squish out from the bottom slab. Then I iced it using Betty Crocker premade frosting. Not the cheapest option but so easy to use and it tastes so good!

Now came the time consuming part - decorating. I really had no idea what to do so kinda just came up with things as I went along. Rick suggested the wafer windows with the black outline and we couldn't decide on the musk stick drawbridge or the wafer drawbridge.

The marshmellows looked perfect as the castellations and pre-made butterflies, flowers and mint leaves helped with the garden. The turretts were topped with tiny marshmellows and silver balls.

I finished it off with roughly marking 'bricks' on the whole cake with a tooth pick. And I found some Breast Cancer Awareness pink & white M&M's which were PERFECT for the cobblestones around the front of the castle.

Miss Isabella was most impressed and she loved her Princess Castle :)

Happy Birthday Princess
* xxx *

Camel Toe ( ! )

2007-01-14T03:18:00.000-08:00

For Rick's birthday this year he asked for yet another tasteful style of cake! I made him a torso complete with bikini and yes... you see it right, 'camel toe'. I didn't want to do this but he thought it would be a laugh! Well it certainly got the reaction he was after!

I started with 2 slabs of butter cake (yum!) and filled with jam and cream. Then using 1 litre pyrex bowls I cooked the chocolate boobs.

I coloured the icing pink and then after I cut out the waist I iced the whole thing over. This was the first time I went with the pre made frosting in a can. It was so easy to work with and it is now my icing of choice. I used Orchard Icing for the bikini and other appropriate bumps and flavoured it mint to take away that sickly sweet taste.

He was happy with the result. I would have liked to work on it a bit more but on a stinking hot day and the clock ticking before guests arrived it was the best I could do in the time I had.

Breast Wishes

2006-09-07T07:30:00.000-07:00

This was one of my favourite cakes to make! It was SO fun! I made this delight for my wonderful husband and a friend's husband who's birthdays are days apart. We had a massive New Years Eve Party this past NYE and with some help from a lot of champagne, the cake was a real novelty! (I will spare you those photos!)

I used a 2 litre pyrex glass bowl for the cake, made from delicious chocolate fudge cake. The icing was really easy to do - just knead, colour, roll and drape. The nipples were a challenge and by using pink and brown food dyes and cocoa I finally found a colour I was happy with. I then used a wet paintbrush rolled in cocoa to brush over the finished areola.... oops, I mean area!

It was hard to get a smooth finish with the icing as it was a 42 deg cel. day and with no air con in the kitchen it wasn't something I wanted to work too hard on!

Chocolate Revenge

2006-08-10T05:06:00.000-07:00

I made this masterpiece for my good friend Amanda. It was her 30th birthday and I wanted to incorporate all her favourite things - (well ok, MY favourite things!) into her cake.

I knew I wanted masses of chocolate but it was Abbey who gave me the idea just to go mad with chocolate bars on the top! So, I got creative!

The cake itself is a dark chocolate mudcake. The top layer has bits of snickers bar throughout and the bottom layer had bits of mars bar throughout. In between these 2 layers was a filling of white chocolate mousse! It was divine!!

The ganache is milk chocolate and there are actually 2 layers poured over!! I topped the cake with all sorts of chocolate goodies - Flake centrepiece, freckles, toblerone, raspberry bullets, maltesers, kit-kats, and rolos. Finished off with crushed crunchie all over. I decided to lay strawberry halfs all around the base - just to add that 'healthy' element. These went down a treat as they were sitting on a bed of ganache and we all know how good strawberries dipped in chocolate are!!!

I must say I had a lot of fun making this cake - but felt extremely ill afterward! HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY AMANDA!

Watch this space...

2006-08-02T05:36:00.000-07:00

Coming soon..... a collection of my novelty cakes that I have created over the years. Nothing professional...just a bit of fun :)