Hello, there!
I'm Jess, and I'm a nerd
who likes to bake.
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16” x 6” of cake styrofoam and cardboard: covered. (it isn’t properly centred on the board and it’s driving me nuts)
I still have SO much to do though, oh my gosh. I couldn’t have done something easy for this, could I?
(the cake isn’t wonky; the turntable isn’t straight.)
ilovealexkingston submitted:
My very amateur attempt at making a birthday cake. My sis helped too.
I used my late grandma’s secret recipe to make the cake.
Top secret recipe, eh? I feel envious. I don’t have any top secret recipes. Only those from Google searches.
I love it! The red frosting is so neatly piped - it makes it look like it’s been knitted, which is really cute. The white frosting at the bottom would possibly have looked better in black, but considering your son’s age, I totally understand (and agree with) the likelihood that it’s white so as to minimise the amount of food colouring.
Overall, though, it’s amazing. Your son’s going to love it. You (And your sister) should be really proud of it, honestly. (and if you’re not, head over to cake wrecks. That should make you feel better than Cake Boss.)
ilovealexkingston replied to your post: I HAVE SUCH admiration for you. My sis and I just did a firetruck cake for my 3 yr old son and OMG that takes time, effort, and ability. Had no idea previous how hard it is and you make it look all too easy. :D
OMG compared to you, we are complete amateurs. It was a cakepan too.
And compared to some of the bakers I admire, I’m a complete amateur. If your son loved it, then that’s good enough for me. I want to see it.
… Please? :D
asked by ilovealexkingston
I HAVE SUCH admiration for you. My sis and I just did a firetruck cake for my 3 yr old son and OMG that takes time, effort, and ability. Had no idea previous how hard it is and you make it look all too easy. :D
Oh my, thank you so much! :’)
Do you have any pictures of the firetruck cake? I’d love to see it!
but how
The head and body were treated like a two tier cake, in terms of supporting it, then were just carved into shape. The arms and legs are rice krispy treats moulded into shape and covered in fondant. The party hat is a new sheet of glossy photo paper, curled and cut into a cone and decorated with the fondant. Simple!
I’d completely forgotten to upload this! This is my cousin, TIlly’s birthday cake. She’d wanted a Care Bear on her cake - just so she could eat it. She’d been threatening to eat her mum’s Cheer Bear figure ever since I made it, so I figured ‘hey, why not go one better? Why not make the WHOLE cake a care bear?!’ and that was possibly the best decision I could have made, because she absolutely adored it.
At her request, the cake was strawberry sponge, with chocolate buttercream.
Also, the ‘real’ bears: the scruffy Cheer Bear was recently re-discovered in our attic. It’s 30 years old and belonged to my aunt when she was little. The other Bear (who’s name I don’t know) is one of Tilly’s teddies.
Mel made me realise this info was probably more relevant than the ages of the teddies:
but how
The head and body were treated like a two tier cake, in terms of supporting it, then were just carved into shape. The arms and legs are rice krispy treats moulded into shape and covered in fondant. The party hat is a new sheet of glossy photo paper, curled and cut into a cone and decorated with the fondant. Simple!
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This cake was super top secret and gave me so much bloody trouble, as a result of my health/eye problems escalating, and the humidity over the past few days.
This was for my friend’s mum, who is a huuuuge Gary Barlow fangirl. Fangirls that aren’t teenagers/young adults are the best, imho, so getting to make a cake involving this really made me happy. I had to make a few changes (which left Gary B looking a bit predator-ish as opposed to all ruffled and covered in kisses and trying to hide from Joanne, but hey) because I accidentally made the figures twice the size they should have been. You try making fondant figures when you’ve looking at two of everything, with sporadic periods of blurriness, though.
The back was my favourite bit, though. It was so much fun to paint, because with the exception of the gemini constellation, I didn’t have to be super precise, which came as a huge relief.
But yes. All the trouble I had with it aside, I’m happy with how this cake came out. Even with Joanne losing her arms from the heat just as my friend arrived to collect it! D:
(Source: thesearejessicakes)
Here’s my cousin’s birthday cake! I had so much fun making this, and it really helped dealing with the rebound in my depression. The bunting took ~6 hours to make from rolling and cutting the first row of flags, to painting the detail on the last string of bunting. I spent roughly 10/11 hours decorating the entire thing.
So, I remade the TARDIS cupcakes which I made last year. I’m really impressed with my progress, even though I still like the overall look of the cupcakes the first time round.
I guess it’s kind of like when they re-make a classic movie. The revamp is awesome and has better technology to make it look damn cool, but it’s never really going to live up to or surpass the feeling and success of the original.
You know what would be cool? If you added your own thoughts to this. What do you think of the new ones? Which do you prefer? If I were to continue this, and made them AGAIN next year, what could I do to make them the absolute most awesome TARDIS cakes there have ever been? Come on, I’m a drama student, I can take your thoughts on this.
I made these over a month ago now (HOW?!) so I figured it’d be cool to get them back on my dashboard again.
I don’t like writing messages on cake.
Really, I don’t. Being left-handed and having a whole load of eye issues which make writing neatly really difficult aside, I generally just feel like cakes without writing on them are boring and messy. There are more fun ways to SHOW the occasion.
But yeah… I don’t like the writing on this. I don’t like how that came out. (the fact that I ran out of silver dust and had to make my own with blue/red/yellow dye and white glitter dust to colour the text only heightens this, I think.) I also don’t like the fact that I couldn’t use any colour on this. Ther than that, but hey… There’s going to be lots of colour on the cake I’m making tomorrow, and the finished product looks a damn sight better than the image I was given to work with, so it’s all good… I’m going to stop complaining about the bits I didn’t like, because I’d like to have YOUR feedback on what you think of it. :)
