Children in Need 2014

Time for another charity cake.
Another try at modelling produced a pretty good Pudsey bear, his face and the dots on his eye patch air brushed on. The building blocks were sponge squares covered with paste and moulded letters added to each face. The faces round the edges were air brushed on and instead of royal icing around the bottom I used dolly mixture sweets to complete the children theme.
It was an 8 inch sponge cake, and selling slices of the cake at work I managed to raise £26 for the cause, which I was more than happy with.

Children in Need 2014

Tour of Britain

Having just been to watch the Tour of Britain - seeing them climbing the hill out of Cheltenham, which any human being would struggle up on a bike, treating it as if it was hardly there - I was inspired to decorate a fruit cake in celebration.
Flower paste jerseys of the race leader, king of the mountains, points and sprint leaders were air brushed, as were the Tour of Britain logos, so it wasn't much of a challenge but I think it was worthy of such a great national event.

Tour of Britain celebration
 

Claires birthday

Claire's partner Graeme gave me just a few days notice when he asked me to make her a birthday cake so a simple floral cake had to be the way to go.
I've got the hang of making roses now so one full bloom on the top and three buds around the edge were straightforward. Rather than just putting the buds just on the top of the paste I made indentations around the edges and recessed them a little, a touch that looked quite effective I think. I don't think there should be anything on a cake that you can't eat and I don't use wires on my flowers, so I make the stems from angelica, which ran down the sides to a couple of leaves. The other flowers around the edges are my version of gerberas, though I don't think you'll see one quite like this in the garden. The little fleur-de-lis around the bottom were just an experiment to see what I could do with royal icing.

Claire's floral cake