Arts & Baker creation for 2015 & 2016

It have been a very long time since my last post. As i am so busy with my precious number 2 and also doing orders at the same time. (How i WISH i have 48hours per day!😂) Here's some of my creations that i have done in 2015 and 2016, happy viewing!

Pokemon themed cake

Thomas & Friends themed cake

Special themed

Dinosaur Themed cakes and cupcakes

From right to left: Frozen, Tinkerbell, Winxclub, Eeyore, Paw petrol, Paul Frank,
STARWARS BB8, minecraft, Sebastian

Cupcakes

Heros Theme cake

Mickey and Minnie themed cake

Transport Theme Cake

Peppa Pig Theme

Famous cartoon character from 80's till now

Elmo and Sesame Street Themed

My little Pony

Animals Themed cake

Pink Themed

Tsum Tsum Themed

Safari Themed Birthday Cake

SAFARI THEMED CAKE 

My Melody themed cake and cookies

My Melody cake

Pink ombre buttercream ruffles with handmade fondant melody topper.

Fondant iced Melody cookies

Cookie tag designed by me.

Charlotte's birthday cake (layout by client)

Buttercream prince crown cake

Buttercream prince crown cake.

Mickey mouse and friends themed birthday cakes, cupcakes, cookies

MICKEY AND FRIENDS CAKE

MINNIE MOUSE CUPCAKES 

MICKEY AND MINNIE COOKIES

ACTUAL BIRTHDAY PARTY * LAYOUT BY CLIENT*

Elmo Surprise Cake

ELMO Surprise Cake

This is one of my favourite 3D cake. It's a simple yet so fun looking cake with Elmo bursting through the cake.

The making of Elmo is fun and easy. You just require the above shape of fondant pieces, a lollipop stick and a grass pipping tip. To create the fur texture, simply twists the tip lightly on the fondant. After attaching the head to the body, add the eyes and nose followed by placing small black fondants into the mouth and smooth it out. Next, prepare the hand (with fur texture) and attach it to the body with spaghetti stick.

Making of the cake burst open effect (left to right):

1. Prepare a chocolate ganache cake

2. Cut out fondant the same size of your cake top. Prepare a circle parchment paper of the burst out width. Slit the fondant 4 times equally across each slit in the middle.

3.Place the circle parchment paper in the middle of the cake top and stick the fondant to the cake over the parchment paper.

4. Open the slit and gently pull out the parchment paper.

5. Wrap the side of your cake and cut away excess.

6. Prepare coloured fondant: roll out flat and cut 45 degree angle triangle. This will match the top of the burst out pieces.

7. Stick alternate triangles of different colours to the tip of the burst out.

8. Prepare the name tag and the colourful balls 

9.Finish off the Base. 

Finally, place your Elmo on top and add m&m's on the area where the chocolate ganache is visible.

Safari Themed Cake

SAFARI FONDANT CAKE

My nephew's 2-tiers safari cake for his birthday celebration in school. He love animals, so my sis requested me to design an animal themed, not forgetting his favourite Rio character, Blu. 

These partial 2D/3D animals is much easier to make compared to a full 3D, yet still looked cute and real on the cake.

Fondant Elephant

Fondant Lion

Fondant Giraffe

This comes the most difficult part, the making of Blu. As I don't have royal blue colouring, I tried mixing purple with sky blue and the result was great. In my 1st attempt, I wasn't satisfied with the look. It just doesn't look like Blu. Not giving up, I tried again on the next day and it was a success! This was the 2nd attempt. 

Fondant Blu in Rio

After done with the key figurines, below were other accessories that I needed to prepare. To achieve a safari look, I created a woody-look No. 3 and "Lewei". 

For the base,  I started with the dark chocolate ganache frosted cake before adding random white fondant stripes for the top tier and green fondant stripes for the bottom tier. The purpose of not designing a fully covered fondant cake is not to cover the tasty chocolate.  

And, here's my cute nephew at the celebration in school. Happy 3rd Birthday Lewei!

Cute Eiffel Tower Cake

Eiffel Tower Cake

When I first posted my Paris theme cake, I received a quite a number of enquiries on my handmade Eiffel tower. I was so surprised with this order as it was meant for my friend 's 2 yr old daughter's birthday. First question that came to mind is:" is it her mum who loves Eiffel tower?" Haha...

AND I got the answer "my daughter loves Eiffel tower , yellow colour and balloon!"

GOOD TASTE Stacy! Here's the yellow cake with balloon, Eiffel Tower and little Stacy and her little brother fondant figurine that symbolise their sibling loves!

For a cuter and sweeter look, I decide to pipe Ruffle laces buttercream at the side of the cake before covering it with fondant quilt top.

This was the 3rd time "building" the Eiffel tower, and it got better each time.

Follow me on the upcoming post on the making of Eiffel tower.

Mickey Mouse Fondant Cake

MICKEY MOUSE FONDANT CAKE

I was so excited when I got this order request as this special birthday cakes was meant for a twins (my sis' colleague). The 2 cakes were a last-min order and I had another 3 orders to fulfil in that 3 days! On top of that, she also ordered another 30 decorated cookies to share with the lovely twins' friends! 

She requested to have 2 different cake designs which must be suitable for both boy and girl.  

So I planned to have the mickey & minnie and peppa pig.

Mickey Mouse cookies

Here's the matching cookies with fondant. Normally I like to use royal icing. This was my first try using fondant which turned out so good! Dried fondant adds crispiness to the cookies! And I need not wait for the base layer to dry before adding other deco! 

Tips: roll the fondant thinner for better taste.

I packed these cookies at 3am. Little Jayden woke up, walked out into the living room, stood beside the table and watched me packing the cookies with his sleepy face. He then pulled my hand to go back to sleep with him. It was such a lovely scene which I could never forget. 

Mission Accomplished!

BUMBLE BEE INSPIRED FONDANT CAKE

Bumble Bee Fondant Car Cake

This is one of my very first fondant cake. I was quite contented when it was completed. However the weather changed suddenly and it started raining (Singapore humidity is 100% during raining days) and the fondant started to sweat and melt. I was so sad when I noticed my first creation turned sticky, shiny with the black fondant bleeding. Only way to save it - aircon or fridge (must cling wrap)!

Bumble Bee Car in the making.

These are the steps from sculpting till covering with fondant and installing the windows. 

For the Base I actually added a layer of moist cake truffles filling. I realise it can act as a stable base, especially good for tiered cakes.

As for the wheels, it's actually Oreal cookies wrapped with fondant. It was hand-painted with black gel food dye. However that day was so humid that dried half way, leaving only black stripes on white wheels. (I normally need to repaint a few layers to achieve an even black colour. But I love the new faded effect so I did not repaint)

The above alphabets is completely hand-cut without any mould or tracing. Follow me on the next tutorial on how to cut block alphabet.  (The name was spelled wrongly but luckily I managed to change it before it dried:))