1961 FB Holden cake

My father in law Bob turned 65 last week so we dcided to throw a surprise birthday party, the cake was left to me and my sister in law and I thought it would be grouse to do a car cake like the car Bob  owned way back when.i baked mud cake simply because i thought it would model well as a 3 dimensional cake

So i baked a few slabs of mud and started ganaching and stacking, i had drawn what the cake should look like so i could get my mind around where all the acessories should go and get the proportions right.

i tried to get the curves right, building it up a bit with the choclate ganache....love ganache work!

i rolled out some fondant and coverd the ganached car with light blue fondant

it was a delicate process poking, prodding and coaxing the fondant into shape. i maade markings on the fondant for windows, and where the white wings should go along the car.

i tucked the excess fondant under the car rather than simply cutting it off to give the illusion of being off the board. you can see all the while refining the shape of the hood and boot, especially around the lights

meanwhile using my shape cutters i cut out 2 circles for the headlights, colcoured them silver and texturized the toplayer to look like a head lamp. i painted in the grill ready for piping on the detail....next the tail lights

the tail lights were layered fondant coloured shapes, literally the whole car was broken down into shape components that i made and attached, i then painted in the windscreen and side windows, not to forget the white wings on the side of the car. its really beginning to look like a car at this stage.

small details were added in , like shading on the chassis to give it a more real look, around the bonnet and trunk, under the wheel arches and in the doors.... strangely enough i completely forgot some components alltogether like mirrors and door handles.... weird....

chrome details

i piped in the grill, made black wheels to stick in under the guard,  added the bumper bar and a number plate BOB 65....voila!!

Aussie Thong Cake

I have 2 great friends Ginnie and her hubby Qas who turned 40 this year and had a big bash, the theme being Aussie, so come in yor thongs and VB shirts, listen to some Aussie songs. The cake was a 50 cm long mud cake with chocolate ganache, covered in royal blue, red and white fondant aussie flag style. LOVE IT!!! So heres how the magic happened....
I drew a template to cut out the shape, it was a good way to get the cake cut out evenly, and i built up the end of the cake with offcuts. i made 2 litres of ganache to fill and cover the thong.

I rolled out the first layer of blue fondant that i had dyed the appropriate colour blue with blue food colouring and a few good drops of purple to pop the colour. Great advice from the ladies from cake decorating central. i cut out the white cross in fondant.

then i cut out the red central cross and the stars on the southern cross. I used a skewer for the thong strap sut it 3 cm above the cake and covered it in fondant.

I attached plastic straps but didnt like the effect, i covered them in red fondant but even with tissues underneath, they didnt set hard....aaaarrrggghhh! so i took them off and used some hard plastic from a cut lemonade bottle (washed and santised of course)

The difference was that the plastic had a curve to it and therefore wanted to stand up like thong straps should.

i used a hand tool to texturise the edges of the thongs and added a white fondant star to cover where i taped the straps to the skewer.

i added some raw sugar and royal icing mixture with two drops of ivory to achieve the sand colour them used my palette knife (I all it knifula)to trowel it on...it looked so good!

i delivereed the cake and at the cake cutting i got to carve the cake up as well! it was yummo!

Get your aussie thong on !!!!!!!!

How i would boost my Vitamin Me Levels whilst getting about in my thong

I sincerely need to spread myself around, get funky with it and trip the light fantastic on an awesome Queensland holiday powered by Nuff Nang To work on my vitamin me levels Of course i would hit that disco with a cocktail the size of a bucket with all sorts of chopped up fruit in it to offset the taste of the litre of vodka and malibu in that baby! Dont forget the holiday sized umbrella sticking out of that drink so big if I got caught in a windstorm the size of cyclone Yazi i could take shelter. I am a huge Nature walker (pls read lazing by hotel pool in my thong) and I would work on my vitamin me levels by kayaking a few kms ( pls read flat out on a massage table in Palazzo Versace Health Spa with a glass of vino bianco velcroed to my hand ) I wouldnt waste a single moment , I'd get my chakras centred, my meridians tuned up and swear an affiliation to Buddha, he seems like a laid back fella and thats how I'd be, including the rounded profile. hehe. dont forget I'd never be out of that Thong... see attached picture of thong....

the edible type, mud cake may not fair well on the beach tho.....

xx

next blog...how to make this thong cake....

Oreo Brownie Slice diabolical but delicious/ cheaters version

I recently made this for some friends of mine, i had seen a recipe with oreo and brownie all baked layered together, it was an evil and gratuitous recipe that was going to get baked simply for the OTT nature of the recipe... where less isnt more...more is ....well... more.
my guests loved it so i decided to blog it, cos it was sooo awesome!.... but i thought I'd do the cheaters version since its an easy recipe.... for the Time poor.

You get a brownie mix, hand mixed with a wooden spoon and a packet of oreo's, i used 1 packet and 2 cookies extra for my baking tray...

Then you line the baking tray with baking paper and cookies , evenly spaced apart and then pour the brownie mix on top.

then smooth it out with the wooden spoon and put in the oven at 180 degrees celsius....160 fanforced... just cook as per instructions on the box...and dont overbake!

Noice! then wait till it cools and cut that bad boy up~ VOILA!!!!

 You can see the cookies at the bottom! Its awesome and delish! as they say at Dilmah...DO TRY IT!
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Cookies. for the white and dark choc chip on my shoulder

hey there caking fiends, I have been busy as usual running after the genoius progeny i raise, but i recently veered off the cake track and did something entirely nice for my hubby which could be misconstrued by him as a crack on, but was infact me just making him choc chip cookies for his tea yesterday. They.are.the .shit.
oh yeah. its a readily available recipe i use, from a maker of sweetened condensed milk...... they contain sweetened condensed milk as well....

180 g butter softened
1/3 cup caster sugar
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
1 &1/2 cups SRF
250 gram dark choc chips
1/2 cup white choc chips

beat together butter and sugar, then add condensed milk, beat till smooth, then add flour and choc bits
roll heaped teaspoons onto tray lined with baking paper press with fork, they should be half size of golf balls to be a good cookie size and remain round....bake for 15 mins , dont over bake as the sweetened condensed milk makes them crispy so you dont need to bake the crap outta them....my hubby likes them a little softer.... awww cute.  i used more white chips than dark in this batch, cos thats what i had in my cupboard..... My 1 year old robbie tried them and he smashed them up man!
great recipe , give these a go, but be warned, you eat a shitload of them and get a big ass like mine.
xx

Caitlin's 1st Birthday Butterfly Cake

I was asked by a dear friend of mine to do a cake for her daughter Caitlin, and the theme was butterfly, in pinks and gelato colours, I was very happy with that and i decided to make it a rainbow cake, without the orange as that particular colour is my friends least favourite... the rainbow factor would provide a wow factor for everyone when we cut the cake. Best part of this cake is i get to partake in the cake as well...awesome! so i began with baking 2 layers, 1 was yellow and blue the other was purple and pink. i used strawberry buttercream, in pink also. i had a hard time thinking about how the butterfly woud look, as usual i stayed up all night thinking about it, and mentally planning the way i would do certain things.... CONTROL FREAK meets worry wort!

i cut out a butterfly shape and iced the middle with my trusty piping bag and the out side with my trusty knifula, a knife that is camoflaged as a spatula....

I overlayed the butterfly with fondant, and cut into the top layer in stripes across the wings for texture and to guide where the patterns would go. i dont have any inbetween pictures as i was really strapped for time.... i needed to get this done to go away for the weekend. mu hubby was doing the anxious pace and sweep as usual.

the butterfly body is made of modelled fondant and using my tools i have made the stripes across for texture and authenticity

i used sparkle dust to accentuate the wings and act sort of as shadow work, a few hearts in purple and blue dots using the poking tool to poke the dots in the border and shapes.... simple and effective.

a pretty bow for the outer border of the cake.... and we're done!
Happy birthday Caitlin!

 the best part of making a cake!... the eating of The cake!!!!!!look at those colours!

with all the candles and on the table it was a lovely cake, and i got to chop it up for everyone, mainly because nobody knows where to cut first!

Robbies First Birthday

My beautiful baby boy Robbie turned 1 and I made a cake for his party, a 2 tier butter cake in blue fondant and a teddy sitting on a patchwork quilt on top... the fillling was chocolate butter cream. I baked late in the week so I had to wait until the day of his party to fondant and put together the tiers of the cake, as a rule it is preferable to let the cake sit for a day so the cake doesnt move when its put together. Luckily my mum and hubby were here to help with the prep for the party and get the 4 kids ready, while I caked. So I got up early, and started with the buttercream and the filling the layers with piped icing.  It was a fun job as who doesnt like icing at breakfast time?!!  the kids thought they were still dreaming!!

I wasnt entirely happy with the quilt effect but  it was a make it up as you go situation! i ended up choosing a few colors and over laying the coloured squares onto a white piece of rolled fondant. I was really freaked by my time constraints so next time i would also texturize around the squares to make them look more "quilty", I ended up cutting the rug at the ends to look like fringing. it really looked great and added stitching with light blue royal icing piped with a fine tip ....add some white fondant dots and a bow with some green stars... voila! i had never attempted a teddy bear before so i just started with some easy shapes like a round tummy, a little round head ...add some ears indented with a hand tool, detail like tummy patch eyes and nose were done with americolor black mixed with white spirit to dilute. the arms were sausage shapes with cut offs for teddy hands..hes pretty fat! it was a learning experience but i was really happy with it in the end... took 3 hours to do all up and that was at top gear as 30ish people were coming at 2pm and there was other party prep to do. Robbie loved his cake! Happy birthday spunky!