Fire Engine Minion Cake

Two year olds love Fire Engines and Minions apparently, so that was the brief for this creation.

Minions are great fun to make, and very easy, though it did take me two attempts as I made the head on the first one too small and had to start over. The sirens on the minion's head were made with halved glace cherries.

Golden Anniversary Cake

This cake broke my heart. I had so many issues trying to get the roses to sit nicely on the top, can someone please tell me how to do it? so they sit all nicely together in a bunch? I'm thinking maybe I need to trim back the wires and sit them on instead of trying to insert the wires (safely tucked inside a straw) into the cake?

And sadly there were some other mishaps, some of the petals and lettering were damaged in transport. I am gutted as I really wanted this to be special, but on the plus side I am very pleased with how the quilting turned out.

I'm off now to google placing fondant roses on a cake to see if someone out there can help me.

Tinker Bell Cake

My cousin asked me to make this for her daughter's 5th birthday. I made the stem of the mushroom using the bottom of a giant cupcake mould and the top was baked in a 1lt pyrex bowl. I think if I was doing this again I would use a bigger bowl but I was worried that if the top overhung too much it wouldn't be stable.

I found smoothing the buttercream on the dome was quite difficult. Initially I tried bending my scraper so that it matched the curve, but I found it very hard to keep a consistent angle and pressure. In the end, I stuck the cake in the fridge to firm up and then smoothed it by placing a paper towel on the top and using a cake smoother.

The flowers etc. are all fondant. The grass was made using royal icing and a grass piping tip.

I bought a Bully Land Tinker Bell topper from Amazon.