Dora Cake for Tia

Today I finished the Dora cake I was making for my daughters Third birthday, Tia is completely mad for Dora the Explorer so I set about making a Dora cake , rainbow butter cake inside with strawberry butter cream filling, I downloaded a pic from the Internet of a colouring in sheet of the wily explorer in question and set about making her likeness atop of the cake.

I cut out a negative image of Dora, totally in black and applied it to the cake, then I cut out the different components in colour blocks and stuck it to the black image and slowly filled her in with colour ,

As you can see it was very fiddly work and it took time and care to apply all the colour with a scalpel and a couple of different tools. I reccommend allowing the fondant to harden slightly before cutting out the components as the fondant stretches and is hard to work with when it is too soft.
the star detail was a star puch cutter and it was a very quick tool that made everything alot easier. 

In the end I used different techniques to lift the image like texture around the socks and shoe detail, around the backpack straps and collar, it gave it a three dimensional quality, 
I got the bright idea of putting a paint roller in her hand and have her painting a rainbow and stars across the cake! It was a good idea, very effective looking, but my hubby didn't like it.... oh well tuff.  I feel this cake had a good finish to it and was quite a good result, Tia is going to love it, it tasted good and has Dora on it.... thats all that counts to her!

Rainbow cake.

I am making an angel cake for my Aunty Rita , for a white themed party, so its going to be a white fondanted cake and as a special surprise the cake inside is a rainbow cake. I have never made a rainbow cake  before so i made a quadruple batch of my butter pound cake and divided it into different bowls

then i lined a square tin with baking paper and very carefully layered the batter trying hard to keep the colours separated

the last layer was purple, Tia got to it and tipped in alot of red food colouring but i salvaged it and put it in last, starting from the middle and working out

There it is i think quite a successful looking cake, all the layers are still defined and the pink looks great, tomorrow i am attempting the angel exterior.

Cupcake Couture Care of Aunty Linda.

I did a cupcake course today, My aunty Linda gave me a voucher for a course she could not attend... bad for her .GREAT for me!!!!the course  taught people like you and me how to make awesome looking cupcakes, it is the first course i have ever done in anything to do with cake decorating.... I had a lovely time, sitting in a group of ladies some who had done fondant work before and others who hadn't.... We made lady bugs , blossoms and bees, and a teddy bear cupcake... i resisted the urge to spend more money on cake tools, alot of which i had already , some i didnt, i will have to look into them as the blossom puncher and leaf puncher was a very naddy tool indeed! and the texturizer which looked like a pie cutter.... for quilting cupcakes and fondant in general...but i did learn alot, about how to use my tools