Fun with Fondant!

Just wanted to do something today - I can't wait until October - I have a few orders in next month! Yay! So just did a little flower, and that little yellow and black blob is supposed to be a bee! hahaha. There is a reason I have posted a blurry pic - the bee is terrible! I was going to make black fondant, but ended up just using some gel - terrible stuff to use! So here it is - just needs a cupcake to go on!

My first 'customer'!

I was asked to do a Wests Tigers NRL Jersey cake! Ok, so it isn't exactly like the real jersey LOL But I am hoping the man the cake is for, can recognise what it is LOL

I had a few problems with the fondant, but it turned out ok in the end!

Would be great Wedding cakes!

Made this today - it is about the size of a cupcake, but is a round cut from a cake. I put a bit of a design in the fondant, then a butterfly on top with some gold shimmer. Was a real quick rough job, but still looks pretty cute. I think these would be gorgeous as wedding cakes, but with a flower on top instead.

Buttercream rose & Mum Cake

I tried a new buttercream recipe today - it was wayyy too buttery for me, but it was nice and stiff - great for piping roses! I did have trouble getting the icing to sit on the flower nail though - maybe too stiff?

My first try at piping a rose - ok, but could be much better!



Then later on I made another fondant rose - only bigger. I thought, what am I going to do with this now? So I made a cake LOL. I tried another buttercream recipe, but it was too soft to pipe! So I thought I would try icing the cake with it instead of fondant. For something different, I cut 2 circles out of the cake with a scone cutter, and layered them to make a small, but tall cake. Once finished, it looked too plain, so I put a little banner at the bottom with Mum on it, as it's Mums Birthday today. Trouble is - she lives 600+kms away LOL Ahhh I'll just send her a photo and tell her how yummy it was bwahahaha.

My first fondant rose!

It could be better, but pretty happy with my first attempt at a rose!



Here it is on a mini cupcake:

A quick treat to have with a cuppa!

I felt like something sweet tonight, and we don't have any lollies in the house (trying to diet! HA!). So threw these together, and thought I would show you how quick and easy they are. They are called Palmiers - if you would like exact measurements/times, let me know! But it's basically frozen puff pastry sheet, melted butter and demerara sugar.

Get out a sheet of puff pastry and let defrost for 5-10 minutes. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with demerara sugar.



Then fold up like this:







I then added some more butter and sugar between the last fold, and on the top - can't hurt...right? Then slice into pieces around 1cm wide:



Place them on a tray, then into a moderate oven until golden. I lift them off the tray straight away so they don't stick, and place onto cake rack. Enjoy!!



They don't store very well - they go soft, so you had better eat them all in one sitting, while they are still crispy... bwahahaha!

Look! Isn't it beautiful!

My old mixer died about a year ago, and have just been using a small hand mixer *cry*. So a week before Ray's party, I started my begging, and my cheeky "but I won't be able to whip cream without a bench mixer" (bwahahaha DH lurves cream). He replied with "well you had better get one" awwww he is too good to me! So I got one ordered in, and the lovely saleswoman did all she could, and got it for me just in time - the day before the party!

It got quite a workout on it's first day! It isn't a Kitchenaid, but very similar. I love it!