Very Merry Unbirthday!

My first Alice in Wonderland cake!
This was for a 13th birthday party, and the recipient wanted it based more on the recent Tim Burton Alice than the old Disney one. Which was fine by me, except that I did not see the new one.

Unintentionally topsy turvy. Germany roads are not condusive to transporting tall cakes. At the house it was a little tipsy, but got even more "whimsical" on the car ride. I think I almost had a heart attack leaving my driveway.

But she made it, mostly in one piece. There was alot of cracking in the frosting, which I managed to smooth out a little when I got it set up.

This is the topper, which is supposed to be a tea pot. It's kind of hard to see the spout and handle.

The tea pot sits on The Hatter's hat.

Which sits on a harlequin kind of base.

Hopefully it did not fall over during the course of the party.

Just Bite Me!

I'm sorry Amanda, but I really hated this cake.

It totally kicked my butt.

I had to trash about 2 1/2 partly frosted cakes, and maybe 4 batches of buttercream.

Maybe the only part of the cake that was easily done. The flowers...


I know it looks like it's covered in coffee grounds, but really it's not. Those are black sparkle sprinkles. Apparently vampires sparkle? News to me.

Second attempt at dripping blood. The first time I just dripped some dyed Karo syrup, but that failed totally and completely. Second try, much better


Of course Emo boy here would not stand up by himself on top of the cake.

Here he is on his perch, briefly.

There most certainly was a head shaped dent on the back of the cake at one point.

As a special touch, when cut, the top tier was red on the inside.

And then it started to bleed.

EW!

Yeah, rest assured no one else will have a cake like this from me again.

BOLT!

Yay a Bolt cake!

What a fun movie that was.

I was able to get Mittens and Rhino down pretty well, but when it came to Bolt.... Sculpting a well known character out of floppy fondant in humid weather is not so easy. I'm one of those people, that if the finished result does not look like the well known character, I'm not happy. And well, all my efforts ended up looking like a white blob with ears.

I was having a really hard time. In the end I had to settle on doing a collar with a BOLT tag on it. I really hope that I did not dissapoint the birthday girl.

Here is another shot of Mittens and Rhino...I'm really proud of those two. Rhino is in one of those snap together plastic Christmas ornaments, which worked perfectly for his ball.

Again crusting buttercream! Hooray for crusting buttercream! Over rainbow cake, with fondant and gumpaste details.

Star Wars birthday

You know how the saying goes that a doctor makes the worst patient? Well I think there should be one that goes a baker's child gets the worst cakes. Well, my child anyway.

She was happy with it so I guess all is well.

My daughter had a Star Wars themed birthday party this year, and she left the cake making up to me. At first I was going to make a R2-D2 cake (I may attempt this one for the Star Wars convention held on base in October), but the humidity put me off of that idea. Nothing worse than a melting R2.

So I scoured the internets for ideas, and came up with a lightsaber cake. Seems pretty easy right? AAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

Well, I used Rice Crispy treats for the first time, and made the actual lightsaber out of that, and covered it in fondant.

Yeah, the adults at the party had lots of fun ribbing me about the **ahem** "Size of my Schwartz".


The cake portion was made up of three 9"X13" cakes halved and stacked, and then laid end to end. They were all "rainbow" cakes frosted with buttercream icing. The Daughter does not care for fondant.

Caketastrophy!

Maybe not the best start to my cake blog, but kind of funny.

This was supposed to turn out to be a topsy turvy cake for a Tinkerbell themed party.

Well, not so much....

But still, as you can see it was not all a waste. The husband dug in before I could throw it off the back porch. It's ugly as all get out, but still tasty!

The cake I ended up delivering in the next post!