Strawberry Delight !!!!

So in November last year  for my birthday, I wanted to create something a bit different and because  so many of my friends have already tasted my chocolate cake I decided to change it up a bit. I’am generally not a person who likes the the spotlight to much so I decided not to go for the traditional concept of singing “happy birthday” and cutting a cake. Instead I decided to make a cake that could be served as a dessert and still can be appealing to the eye.

This was definitely one of the less challenging cakes I have made. To start, I baked a simple vanilla sponge which I cut into three layers. Then covered the first two layers with sweet vanilla custard. You can chose to make the custard from the custard powder or make it from scratch. I chose to cheat a bit and went for the pre-made powder which is available in any supermarket. On top of the custard layer, freshly cut strawberries is placed. For the final layer of cake, instead of covering it with custard it is covered with light fluffy whip cream and decorated with whole strawberries.

So there you go everyone, this is my strawberry delight.

Rock n Roll

My first official cake order came from a family member. He wanted a customized cake for his son's 21st birthday, which was to be a decoration of a guitar, but I wanted to challenge myself so I decided to make this a 3D electric guitar cake.

To make the design I cut the cake in a form of a guitar with a stencil. Then came the tricky work of covering the cake with fondant. The initial plan was to make a blue colored guitar but as I was mixing the colors the fondant changed from a light sky blue to an amazing Teale color. As many of you cake makers maybe knowing working with fondant  is quiet a tough job but with constant practice and a tad bit of help of some measuring tools I got the design i wanted . These tools can be purchased from Cake Decorating Central in Australia (www.cakedecoratingcentral.com/)‎.

The inside was my famous chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and to get the shimmering effect I  brushed the fondant with teale luster to give that finishing touch. This was to be the start of many unique cakes to come.