Hydrangeas

I love hydrangeas and I saw this idea on how to pipe them onto cupcakes from Glorious Treats.  It is very easy to do.  All you need is a Wilton 2D tip and two colours of icing.  (I went with teal and violet.)  When filling the icing bag, put each colour down side by side in the bag.  (As in, each colour takes up half the bag down to the tip.  I will remember to take photos next time!)  Squeeze the icing bag until you see a mixture of the two colours coming out of it.  Then pipe star shapes around the edge of the cupcake and work your way towards the centre.  Fun and easy to do!  And they look pretty too!

Pink elephant

This is another figurine I made out of fondant.  I think it would have been better to use gumpaste as it sets better and is harder too but I only had fondant to work with. I followed a video on You Tube for instructions on how to make it.

If you want to learn how to make this cutie, check out this other video by yourstrulytx.  Have fun! :)

my lil pony

After the success of making little Harry Potter for the Castle cake, I decided to try making some other figurines.  Having no experience on where to begin, I started looking through the Net and You Tube to get some ideas.  Thank goodness for kind people out there who share stuff with you.  I watched this video by yourstrulytx on how to make this cute lil pony and thought I'd share it with you.

Isn't he adorable?! :)

Let me know if you make one too!

Castle cake

My friend's daughter wanted a Harry Potter castle cake for her birthday.  I have never attempted making sugar figurines, let alone a 3D castle!  I was up for the challenge though and with my friend's help, we came up with this cake.  We were quite pleased with it, and my friend's daughter was happy too!

Here is my version of a wizard made out of fondant.  It took 4 hours to make and was the first one I have attempted.  I am quite pleased with it and I must say it has made me want to make more figurines!

Flower power

I've wanted to do a flower pot cake for a while now and the opportunity came up to make the cake as a surprise for my good friend's birthday. There are so many pictures on the Net for flower pot cakes and I had a good browse to decide exactly what I wanted to do.  My friend's daughters and sister helped to arrange the flowers on the cake as well as do the grass icing on the cupcakes.  Lots of potential cake decorators there! :)  It took a while to get the colour of the pot right and if I had more time, I would have made it a little neater, I think.  But all in all, a very nice surprise indeed!  Happy Birthday Priya!