Lamb cake in six easy steps!

Sometimes having the perfect cake tin for baking your vision is not possible. And most of the time the best thing to do is bake two or more round cakes and carve them out by hand. That's also how we made the chainsaw, landrover and artic generic red Christmas truck (which can be seen on our Facebook page) and actually everything shaped was carved by hand and using no moulds.

So we started this cake with 4 x 8" round cakes. And took a knife to them.

The body is starting to take shape, we kept on building with strawberry preserve and buttercream adding legs and then more body and head.

The whole cake was then covered with buttercream.

Next was the task of icing the cake. We decided to cover the legs separately which we've actually never done before but since the back of the cake was going to be covered completely with white fluffy royal icing and the legs needed to be less so, it didn't matter that the whole cake wasn't covered first.

The ears were made a few days before with SFP so that they could set hard and stick up at the sides of the lambs head. We think it looks quite cute sitting in it's grass full of daisies and holding the girls age and name in it's mouth. 

 

 

Thank you for our thank yous!

We really do appreciate every single thank you card and email that we have ever received. I felt like I had to share a small sample of some of them and if you look closely, you can even see some cakes. I love the way the rose cake had photographs of family weddings surrounding it. Absolutely perfect touch.

Step by step Pansy making

 This last month all we have been thinking about is pansies. And pansy making and a pansy cake. So while making the pansies I took pictures at different stages to show the path from a rolled out piece of icing to a full wedding cake. So I looked through many of the books that we have here in the showroom to find a good pansy instruction and failed to find what I needed. Most called for wiring the icing which I didn't want.  I wanted these flowers to be stuck on the cake with no protruding pansies or petals. A lot of the instructions also called for a cutter which I didn't have. So, instead of looking at icing pansies, I searched pinterest and found some beautiful images of pansies and realised that the shape is a rather easy one to mimic. So using a petal cutter I got to work.

Icing is a very forgiving medium to work with and stretches a treat when worked properly. Believe it or not the five petals on the pansies are made using the exact same cutter.
We left the pansies to dry overnight and then got to work on painting them.

 

The last job was to add the black lines and the tiny dots in the centres of each pansy. The result is this pretty four tier cake. The vibrancy of the colours means that there doesn't need to be pansies on every inch of the cake. 

Pansy cake. Perfect for a Summer garden wedding.