Ruby's 6th

Ruby is 6! Yippeee, let's celebrate with some horsey cakes; no, some chocolate Malteser cakes; no, some horsey cakes, um no, I really want under-the-sea cakes... Are those my horsey cakes, Mum? oh yes! I remember I wanted under-the-sea ones...

Once Ruby had finally decided on a theme for her cakes, I made her some chocolate Guinness cakes (only a tiny amount of alcohol, which I'm sure disappears on baking, before anyone reminds me that she's underage!), topped with sea-green vanilla buttercream and fondant icing decorations.

Happy Birthday Ruby chan!


(Not quite as neat a job with these cakes, as the last under sea ones, but they were done in quite a rush - sorry, Ruby)


Goldfish and gold bubbles


A dolphin (though Danny wanted to pretend it was a shark)


Starfish


The ubiquitous 'blowing out the candles' photo.


Jelly and Ice cream.


Second lot of cakes for the second (family) party on her actual birthday.

Zoe's Little Mermaid Cakes

Swirled plain and blue buttercream, in a wiggly sea pattern.


Zoe's name is spelled out on clam shells.


Flounder. I spent more time on Ariel, and Flounder came second place - the cake recipient (aged 5) knew who he was and was happy with him though.


With gold dragee air bubbles.


Ariel herself.


layered up icing.


The finished cakes, ready for delivery.


Six cakes based on Disney's The Little Mermaid for Zoe.

Chocolate cakes with vanilla buttercream and fondant icing.

Freya's 'Under The Sea' Cakes

Vanilla cakes with vanilla buttercream: I thought any other flavour dyed blue would be odd.


I put mid-blue, light blue/green and plain white buttercreams together in the same piping bag, and piped them out to give a multi-coloured effect.

The problem I have is that often I'm using new (to me) techniques as I'm fulfilling an order, it's always a bit nail biting* to be doing some new style of icing on the cakes that are actually going out to the customer. I was really happy with the colours and effect here though.

*Not literally- that would contravene my food hygiene training!


Freya's name and age spelled out on seashells, each with an edible 'pearl' sugar dragee.


Goldfish with gold dragee bubbles.


Blub.


Crazy-eyed starfish. The buttercream is also decorated with clear and blue edible glitter.




Pretty sure this is a scallop shell shape, which I think means it wouldn't make a pearl, but sometimes artistic licence wins over zoological accuracy!





Olga ordered 12 sea life cakes for her daughter Freya's 2nd birthday.

I really enjoyed making these cakes, especially as I finally got to use the dolphin cutter that I bought a while ago. The shell and starfish cutters are new additions bought for this commission, but I'm always happy to feed my cookie cutter habit!

Olga had also very sweetly said that she liked my photography, so I supplied her with a CD of these photos, as well as the cakes.