The Coloured Bubble Cakery: October 2012

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

The Mad Hat Cake

As a lover of bright colours and random hair-wear I wanted to create something fabulous to match my fabulous friend Nay to celebrate her birthday last week.

For her present I knitted a hair fascinator of prawns on lettuce which she loved so I decided to fashion her a fabulous hat out of cake too.

I went into it blind with my only original design factor being brightly coloured pom-poms in the top!

Here's the finished cake...

and here's my lovely Nay modelling it...

and just in case you're wondering, here's a quick snap shot of Nays prawn and lettuce fascinator I made...

Monday, 22 October 2012

For her 6th birthday my lovely friend Nicki's little daughter Millie-Rose asked very sweetly for a Snow White cake, although to be honest, it was a given that the cake would be a Disney Princess of some description!

I've seen so many doll cakes in shop windows with plastic dolls unceremoniously stuck into a skirt of cake and wanted to have a go... without the plastic doll, and this was the perfect opportunity.

Using the same process as the shop windows I made a skirt shaped cake and then modeled Snow White from the waist up using fondant icing making Millie's cake entirely edible the way cakes should be.

Having an invite to the party I had the pleasure of lending a helping hand towards coping with 40 sugar filled 6 year olds running and screaming and even got thoroughly involved in the Hokey Cokey, I would've felt young again if it hadn't been from the previous late night spent celebrating another friends birthday and by the end of Sunday I was seriously wondering whether I'd ever have the use of my legs again!!

Here's Millie-Rose's cake...

HAPPY 6th BIRTHDAY MILLIE!!! xx

Jackson Guitar

Here's another example of the customisation of the guitar cake... this time a Jackson!

Shared Birthday Cupcakes

Cupcakes for the Racing & Cricket Enthusiast!

Saturday, 13 October 2012

Munster Rugby Shirt

Here's a cake I made for a young mans 18th, clearly a Munster Rugby fan!

During the process of making this cake I learnt the Provinces of Munster... Tipperary, Waterford, Clare, Cork, Kerry and Limerick... pub quiz here I come..!

The Roast Chicken

Being a cake decorator I am privy to some pretty weird cake fantasies and this cake is no exception!

According to the customer:

"The reason for the chicken... hmm, well, my friend Jen is a bit of an oddball and loves chicken so much that every year she asks us for a chicken cake for her birthday - by which I mean a cake made out of chicken. It's been a running joke for years so I thought it might be nice to get everyone to chip in and finally get one for her."

So, as I might've mentioned before, here at The Coloured Bubble Cakery, your cakey wish is my command and the chicken cake was ordered.

Now, if there's one thing about cake making that I love the most, it has to be making cakes to look like food so I was super excited about this one, and if truth be told, I've been waiting for an excuse to make a chicken cake for a good long while!

I set about baking 4 large vanilla sponges, piled them with jammy filling and carved, as it turns out, this chicken is more the size of the Christmas turkey from the end of 'A Muppets Christmas Carol' but hey ho, the more the merrier surely!?

So the chicken and its legs are carved from cake, the roast potatoes are modelled from fondant covered rice crispy cakes and the wings and veg are fashioned completely from fontant icing. Yum!

I used Badger the airbrush to 'cook' the chicken, potatoes and pigs in blankets and topped it all with a delicious glaze created using black treacle and granulated sugar!! It's bizarre what you find to use at the last minute!!

Here's the finished cake...