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!

Killer Klown Cake

My most recent adventure in cake was the Killer Klown cake, based on the 1988 movie Killer Klowns from Outer Space. It was for my friend AJ's 40th birthday. His theme was the killer clown theme so My friend Tanya, sent me a small pic and asked me if I could make a Cake based on that picture.

As you can see i was quite an interesting subject , as alot of people i know have KLOWN ISSUES. I based the cake on the main figure in the foreground of the picture and set about drawing a template for the cake.  also to get my head around the design. then I baked a chocolate mud cake using a 4x1kg of Bakels mud mix, mixing each mud mux individually. I poured each mix into a greased and paper lined square tin that was 30 x 30 cm.120 degrees celsius. I baked it for 6 hours on cook it through without drying it out, it seems like a long time but it is over 6 kgs of cake including liquids added like eggs, water and oil. It is such a beautiful cake to eat, so dense but not dry or hard.

I let the cake cool and what I call cure for a day, then I usually find it has hardened enough to carve into. thats when the template comes in handy, it is great for marking out where you need to cut. I cut out the shape and then i slice the cake in half horizontally to make two layers and spread some dark chocolate ganache then replace the top layer. To the cakers out there it may seem a bit obvious but I'm sure someone was wondering....

I then place the template on top of cake and literally slice into the template to mark out where the facial features will go. It ends up looking like Gene Simmons...all angry. It was easy to get the proportions right this way.

 iended up dirty icing it with chocolate ganache, it was just easier at the time....i did white fondant for the face, then using the drawing i added cheeks out of red fondant...premade and mixed up pink for the lips, the hair was red fondant that i used a texture tool to create a fuzzy look.... although red pasmak (persian fairy floss ) would have been perfect. couldnt find it not sure if it exists in red either...Eyes were added and eyebrow ridges un white fondant



the nose was made from a ferrero rocher covered in red fondant and the mouth was filled with black premix fondant... its blacker than what i can mix up myself. the eyelashes were black fondant but i ended up changing them....they just werent evil enough.... so i got out my tequila and my colours and went to town painting up a storm....

The teeth cut out of white fondant and black food colourong blended with white spirits to dirty up the cake , the extra peices were all added with tylose glue and the eyecalls were painted with tylo to look glossy

add the green fondant that i ended up texturizing to look a bit crazy quilted and it was done. the fondant was pieced togther and the pleats were added later as rolls of fondant separate. 

xx

Welcome to Simone Cake Creations, the Home of the Weird and Wonderful cake

Hi there, this is my first blog, drum roll please, and it is going to showcase my cakes I make and the way in which they are created, I take lots of pictures during the making process, and I think that someone out there will find it useful. I will start out by saying that I never intended to make cakes,  Cakes were the furthest thing from my mind and I have done no formal courses in cake decorating, but what I do have is a huge creative streak and the will to try anything. Thats got to be a good thing right?
  I have 4 kids, one of which is a 7 month old baby. I am a stay at home mum... my husband would choke if he read this because i am rarely at home.... but you get what I mean.I have been making Cakes for a relatively short time but I make some weird and wonderful ones! Anyhow, my sister rang me a few months back and asked me if I would help her with a cake project that would become known as OPERATION PENIS CAKE. A top secret operation that involed butter pound cake, chocolate butter cream and cointreu in the shape of a Huge Penis. Which was then fondanted and a hand made from LCM's attached to it with the words "to have and to hold" written across the huge scrotum...( eww first blog and i had to use the word scrotum already...mum would be proud!) I said, WHY ME? when she asked but it was such a scream to make with them that I decided to offer to make my Nieces 21st cake as a gift which was a 3 tier mudcake with leopard spots, the design of which I researched on the internet for ages. pics to follow...

So this Blog will show the ones i have done and the processes I go through during the making process, the baking, the filling, the design,