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Pirate Face Cake

Here is a sweet little cake I made as a gift for a friend's son.

It was his 4th birthday. He loves pirates or should I say is crazy about pirates.

He has a pirate costume with the eye patch and runs around the house with his sword playing pirate all day long. At a recent Purim festival he dressed like a pirate to school too.

It's such an easy cake that I did not bother to take pictures of the progress.

This is a 6" cake but I baked it in a 7" pan because I did not want the cake to be high.

It's my Double Chocolate Chocolate cake recipe with my Vanilla Buttercream.

I covered the whole cake with my homemade skin tone fondant. For the skin tone I used Wilton ivory and a dash of peach (ever so little).

Then I used red fondant for the bandana and placed it at a slight angle.

Next I placed white fondant circle using a round tip. ( I think I used Wilton tip 12)

Ivory fondant for the nose.

Black fondant to cut out a thin strip, placed it across the eye and head.

An oval cutter for the eye patch.

A round tip for the other eye and

trimmings from an oval cutter to make the mouth.

The balance of the black for the cake border. Just rolled it into a long log then used my shell toll to impress a pattern.

Voila! How easy was that?

I love making these simple, easy and yet out standing cakes that make kids happy.

I believe every child should have a special cake for his or her birthday but that special does not necessary have to be difficult, expensive or time consuming.

Well, that's all from me for today. Thanks for stopping by.

Happy cake decorating.

Proposal Cake

I have a couple of cakes that I still haven't shared with you.. here's one.

My business tag line is - unforgettable cakes for memorable occasion and this could not be more true in the case of this cake.

This Valentines day I had a very sweet young man come to order a Valentine cake for this girl friend. He seemed very confused and unsure about what he wants and very hesitant about almost every design I showed him.

Basic Icing String Work on Cake

Finally my internet is working. It's amazing how life almost comes to a stand still without the internet. I don't really get to spend a lot of time on the web but the little I do is so important.

My Birthday Cake

I have not been able to put up any post recently because I have some problems with my internet connection. I just can't seem to upload any pictures. Waiting for the technician now.

I wanted to share with you guys my birthday cake today - 8th March 2012.

I do hope you like it. It's a lot of pink. I do love pink but here I used it because that was what I had around from my previous cake. I've done some string work on beads here and lovely rose spray up and around the cake.

I do have some progress pictures that I will post once I have my internet up an running again. It took me 2 hours to up load this picture.

I really want to take this opportunity to thank you for the love and support you have shown me thru this blog. I was hesitant about starting my blog but the response I have received from you all by comments, messages and emails has been very encouraging.

Today its four months for my blog and it has about thousand page views a day. Thanks for visiting me so often and for sharing it around. I do appreciate the support.

Have a good day you guys and Happy Purim to my local fans.

Thanks for stopping by.

Diabetic Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Frosting

When it comes to desserts especially my cakes I'm all for the real deal. My principal is there is nothing like the real thing.

So no low fat, no low sugar or any low for me. I'd rather eat one good slice of dessert than a couple of low on calorie stuff..

Now that does not mean I don't believe in eating healthy! When I'm cooking I do everything possible to keep dinner for my family lean and simple. I avoid cooking with butter as well as introduce brown rice and healthy meals for my family including my kids.

Having said that, when it comes to special dietary restrictions or physical intolerance I believe there is a valid reason to do everything possible in terms of low sugar or low fat or no flour.

Birds Cage Mini Cakes

I was recently asked to make some mini cakes, but no information on how I should decorate them.

The only message I received was - Do something fun, do the first thing that pops up your head, make sure they don't look small, try to use some blue and yellow in the colors. I did not even know who or for what age they were for!

Well, here's what I did.

What do yo think? Did I follow instructions well? Would you be happy if you were the customer?

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Victorian Style Royal Iced Cake

Every time I see a picture of a Lambert Style royal icing piped cake I go aaaahhwww!!! It's so elegant and beautiful. I always hoped that some day I'd have the opportunity to take a class or two and learn these techniques from the pros. Not that I don't know how to pipe, I do my fair share of piping but I think I'd just like to learn from the experts and refine my skills some day. No luck so far!

Anyway, you remember my resolution for 2012. I placed it on the side bar of my blog to motivate me.

Today I had to make this small 6 inch cake for some one special. So I decided to do some piping work.

I looked on the internet for ideas, tutorials or any information on how to go about doing the Lambert style of piping but nothing. So didn't really have an idea or draw up any design. Just decided to go with the flow.

This is what I came up with.

What do you think? My first Victorian Style cake. Not my best work of course but I honestly thought it was a lot more difficult. Though I wasn't expecting it to take so long. I was slow so it took forever to finish.

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