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!

Arts & Baker Fondant Figurine

Arts & Baker Fondant Figurine

This figurine represent myself and my passion for baking. I love arts and I love to bake, this is how Arts & Baker was form.

Started with the above coloured fondant.

Forming round balls attached to a lollipop stick. Followed by adding eyes, neck and body.

Adding ruffle laces to create a nice girly skirt. Outfits completed with a pinkish apron.

I started off with the base for the hair before adding fringe and ponytails.

Hand and accessories need to be dried before attaching to the figurine.  

The making of the miniature tier cake started off with 4 different sized flatten fondant balls with added on coloured "frosting". Stack the cake alternately with base and frosting.

The drying process took a few days. Both hands were supported with lollipop stick to hold them in place fall before it dried completely.

FLOWER THEMED CAKE

Flower Theme Fondant Cake

Recent Mother's Day order, requested by my friend who wanted a cake with flowers, butterflies and hearts. So I planned to do something not too complicated yet come with a happy looking garden feel.

I started with making fondant roses. I used a stripe of fondant and rolled over the edge to create a natural look. I discovered the easiest way is to use a toothpick and not with a the ball tools! Next, just roll over with the thicker end and press firmly. (If fondant is too dry, water is required to stick the ends together). Next, lightly pull the petals apart and arrange according to the look you like. Lastly, for drying, I always like to use aluminium foil as a holder/stand to dry the small fondants.

I am glad that the flower cutters which I ordered from Qoo10 arrived just in time for me to make these lovely flowers. These cutters really helped me to shape the flowers with much ease. Similarly I dried these cut flowers by placing them on cone-shaped aluminium foils to create a 3D looking flower.

The alphabet press set is handy when you need to create letters in small area. Its about 0.7cm height.

I wanted to create a simple but sweet looking flower cake, so I though of having a white wooden fence. With the ribbon cutter, I shaped the fence top, followed by adding the wooden feel texture using the shell tools. The effect was great!

I started with crumb coated chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream frosting. Final frosting of chocolate ganache was set firmly in room temperature before I placed the fence stripes side by side.

For the top, I left it with dome shape chocolate ganache as anyway it will be covered with flower later on. Lastly the ribbon was added to the bottom. It looked so sweet.

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:))