Busy August Part 2

And now for the jungle cake for a 3 year old boy and a 1 year old girls birthday party

 There is a lot of detail to this cake that you don't necessarily notice at first glance.

 The cake is higher than usual cakes to replicate the height needed for jungle trees

 Yummy chocolate buttercream was used as the jungle background before tree trunks and leaves in every shade of green I had were added. Then the fun part - the animals

 Not sure if the picture shows it properly but two trees were etched with the letter E. One for the birthday girl and one for the birthday boy.

 A hand painted girl and boy giraffe emerge from the tree tops

 The animals were placed all around the cake with this cheeky beaky towards the back

The board was also decorated with names, encroaching tree roots and slithery snakes.

Busy August

They say buses come in 3s but in my case it was cakes. The Tiffany Box (see previous post) a beautiful simply elegant cupcake tower and a bright and fun jungle cake

First the cupcakes

To start off the vanilla sponge was piped with vanilla buttercream in a rose pattern giving a cupcake that I think would look lovely for a wedding

 The cakes were then embellished with pink blossom and dusted ever so slightly with pink to give pale pink hue

 The cupcakes were placed in a pale pink spotty casing that complicated the unfussy decoration

 I just love pictures of multiple cupcakes!

 Birthday girls name was spelt out in tiny cupcakes that topped the cupcake tower

Tiffany Box - behind the scenes

Thought I would be a bit different with this blog and show you the cake BEFORE it was finished. Most people don't see this stage where cake is stacked and buttercreamed but not iced. 

The cake was for an 18th Birthday and the brief was simply 'a Tiffany Box' I was actually allowed to borrow a real life (empty) Tiffany Box to help colour match but unfortunately had to hand it back.

 This is also a stage people don't normally get to see. The still wet ribbon with stuffing inside each bow so that you can see all the way through each side once it has dried an set. The stuffing was kept in over night and was only removed once the cake had been delivered to give it a little extra cushion during transport.

 To finish off the cake the infamous Tiffany & Co logo was hand written on. Steady Steady Steady hand needed for this part!

 Here you can see the 'lid' and the ribbon wrapping the box

Final article boxed and ready to be handed over. The colour looks completely different to the previous picture and shows you what a difference natural light makes to cake decorating. The previous picture was taken at half ten at night with flash and kitchen energy saving light bulbs! Ribbon has totally dried and protective stuffing removed.