Knitting Lady Watching TV - "Mums favourite things cake"

This was mums birthday cake and was a scene showing all of her favourite things including knitting whilst watching Midsomer Murders and some cheeky treats like chips (crisps), coke and chocolate.

Elements of this cake were a bit time consuming but was so much fun to make...Now when I had finished doing the fondant lady, I had noticed that she looked alot like a blow up doll ha ha. What I was going for though was a surprised look due to watching the TV, but it worked out as everyone had a bit of a laugh when it was done. The cake was a chocolate fudge cake with a Coffee Cream icing...very tasty and mum really enjoyed it.

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Tea Party Cake

This was a cake I made for little Missy and her friend who had an afternoon tea party at our house the other weekend. The girls loved the cake and especially the little fondant food.

It was very fun to make, everything was edible, looking at these I think I should have taken some close up pictures...oh and it is a common misconception that the below green things were a plate of peas but they are actually meant to be grapes lol :)

  

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Fairy Princess Castle Cake...The Cake that started it all

This was the first cake...this is the one that kicked off the obsession!!

It was coming up to my little girls 2nd birthday and I asked her what she wanted for her cake. Little Missy said she wanted a fairy princess castle cake and this got me thinking how I could pull this together, after purchasing the Women's Weekly Birthday Cakes book I used this as a reference to create the below.

On my first attempt (crazy me left it to the day before) I baked butter cake and burnt it :) I then whipped out to Woolworth's (local Supermarket for the international readers) and bought some slab cake. 

Then it was all in the decoration. The butter slab cake was filled with strawberry jam and vanilla butter cream. The turrets were made out of upturned waffle cones and the whole cake was covered with butter cream.

Smarties and marshmallows were used to decorate the castle. Spearmint leaves were used around the bottom of the castle. Wafers were used as the doors at the front with musk sticks over the top. The top flags were toothpicks with little fondant squares placed over the top. The unicorns and fairies I bought at a $2.00 shop.

I will never forget the look on little Missy's face when she saw this cake...this is what got me hooked.

It is just priceless seeing the joy, the awe and sheer delight...so the journey for me began :)     

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Fondant Floor Lamp

Another item for mums cake...hmm can you guess what it is yet? This floor lamp is going to be a cute addition to the cake..coming shortly is the TV.

Step 1 - Materials Needed 

• White fondant 
• Brown fondant 
• Rolling pin 
• Fondant knife
• Round cutter (size 
• Foam pad
• Ball tool
• Cling wrap
• Styrofoam block (or Florist block)
• Lollipop or bamboo stick
• Spray oil or butter

Step 2 - Making the Lampshade

Take some of the brown fondant and roll into a long sausage, this will be the lamp pole.
 
Spray some oil or rub on some butter onto the skewer. Thread the bamboo skewer through the brown fondant sausage leaving some of the skewer exposed at the top and bottom, I am really bad at doing this - if you find that the skewer pierces the fondant just re-correct the path of the skewer and reshape the fondant around the skewer....I had to do this several times :)

Once you have finished threading through, insert the bottom of the skewer into your Styrofoam block. 

Take a small amount of white fondant and shape into a teardrop shape. Place the white fondant on top of the lamp pole.   





Take a small amount of brown fondant and roll into a ball the slightly flatten with your fingers, this will be the base of the lamp.

Brush a little bit of water on the centre of the disc. Remove the skewer from the Styrofoam and place the brown disc onto the bottom of the lamp pole.

Take a larger amount of the white fondant and roll into a ball.

Roll out the fondant thinly and cut out a circle with the cutter.

Place the circle on the foam pad and using the ball tool thin out the circle - including the centre of the circle.
 

 Take another ball of fondant and wrap in cling wrap.

Place the fondant circle you rolled out earlier over the ball of cling wrapped fondant and commence to shape the top circle into the shape of a lamp shade by gently pressing down over the rolled up fondant and frill up the bottom.

Brush a small amount of water all around the top of the teardrop shape on top of the lamp pole and place the lamp shade over the top. Using your fingers, gently shape the lamp shade into place.

Take a small amount of brown fondant and roll into a very thin sausage as shown 

Shape the sausage into a small circle, this is going onto the top of the lamp shade.

Brush a small amount of water around the top of the lamp shade  and place the circle on top. You may need to gently work the circle down onto the lamp shade. Just be careful not to break the circle and not to use too much water as the brown fondant can leave marks on the white fondant.

Now let there be light...



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