Batman Rainbow Cake

The Batman Logo, superman coloured covering, and a rainbow cake inside.

Different? Yes!

Fun? Definitely!

And a super chuffed little boy upon delivery!

She wanted similar colours to her parent’s wedding day, and of course flowers.

The cake was red velvet on top, with the bottom tier being carrot. Both had cream cheese frosting.

I loved making this cake, and loved the look of delight on my client’s face when she saw it.

And the sms I received from her mom ” Thank you sooooo much for the beautiful cake you baked for our 40th Wedding Anniversary! It tasted so yummy too!

Vintage Wedding Cake

I think perhaps the fact that the client is also a friend & now a family member, that could have had something to do with it.

She gave me a picture of what she wanted, and I changed the colours to match her Country Themed wedding, set on her family farm in Hogsback, Eastern Cape.  The cake was Red Velvet on top, Choc in the middle and Carrot at the bottom.  YUM.

I also then made items of yumminess for the dessert table – Chocolate Brownies, Sugar Cookies, Cake Pops, Cupcakes and Caramel Tarts.  Other yummies included Heart Shaped Fudge, Lammingtons and Rocky Road.  A true feast.  I had an absolute ball putting together and decorating the Dessert Table – such fun!

An absolutely gorgeous wedding!

Dessert Table

Pink Sugar Cookies & Rocky Road

Lamingtons & Pecan Choc Brownies

Vanilla Cake Pops

Green & White Heart Sugar Cookies

Rocky Road & Heart Shaped Fudge

Vanilla Cupcakes

Chalkboard

A rectangular Vanilla Cake, filled with Caramel Cream.

A no 2 ‘Racing Track’ (real cars were added later) and a few checkered flags and away you go.

Such fun – and so scrummy too!

This one was ordered, together with Hello Kitty Cupcakes and also Sugar Cookies.

I usually try and stay away from doing ‘cartoon characters’ because they are quite difficult to replicate exactly I was however quite happy with the outcome of this one.

A Red Velvet Cake,with Cream Cheese Frosting.

The cupcakes were Vanilla with Buttercream Frosting, and then Vanilla Sugar Cookies.

Hello Kitty Sugar Cookies

Pretty, and yummy too!

A snake cake – eeeuww!  Living on a farm we have our fair share of them and i’m not a fan!

Chocolate Snake Cake

However, I did love how this one turned out.  He doesn’t like the sugarpaste covering, so this was just covered with Dark Choc Buttercream and then embellished with Sugarpaste.

Apparently it was a hit with the kids who fought over who was going to get the snake!

Hello Baby Baby Shower Cake

This cake was a 4 layer Vanilla Cake, filled with Caramel Cream (a very popular combination).

Apparently the mum to be has a thing about pink ellies, hence little ellie on top, and I thought the bunting round the side brought it all together.

Mum to be was thrilled and said she didn’t want to cut it!

3 Tier Heart Wedding Cake

I loved making this cake – it was so stylish in it’s simplicity, yet still had the wow factor. The 3 tiers were Red Velvet, Chocolate and Carrot at the bottom.  The only problem I had was the heat.  The wedding at was the seaside and it was hot and very humid.  So the sugarpaste went from hard to soft, the hearts moved and it was a bit of a stressful day for me.  But i think it still came out ok.

I also made mini cupcakes decorated with a swirl of Vanilla Buttercream, sprinkles and rice paper hearts. Too gorgeous.

Mini Heart Cupcakes

I took the liberty of taking some photo’s of the venue and tables as I was struck by the absolute beauty of the venue – a marquee on a bowling green. White, silver and hints of pink/purple.

Love the French accents in the detail

Simply Beautiful

The attention to detail is really what amazed me.

Slops for when your feet were sore from high heels

Seating Plan

And then the Candy Bar (the brides name was Candice). Such an awesome idea.

Candy Bar

Candy

The Milky Bar

Gorgeous yes?

I’m going to start by sharing How To make these completely moreish Chocolate Dipped Marshmallows.

Rainbow Marshmallows

You Will Need:

Bag of Marshmallows
Bar of Milk or Dark Chocolate
M&M’s (or smarties)

How To:

Simply arrange you marshmallows on a large plate or tray.
Break your chocolate into squares and place in a microwave safe bowl, and place in the microwave for a couple of minutes. The time the chocolate takes to melt is completely dependent on the wattage of your microwave. I would check every 30 seconds to be on the safe side.
Once the chocolate is melted stir quickly to get rid of any tiny lumps.

Then the FUN begins!

Simply dip the top of the marshmallow (obviously a flat side) into the chocolate, and place bottom side down on the plate. Do a few in quick succession and then start decorating.
Place the M&M (or smartie) in the middle of the marshmallow.
You need to do this whilst the chocolate is still slightly soft in order for the M&M to stick.

Leave to set (away from little fingers) and then serve.

So easy and so effective

I like to use M&M’s as their colours are vibrant.

This is also a super easy sweety treat for the kiddies to make!

And this is what I made. I decided to use for bright colours and only only colour per ‘animal’, so that it would give the ‘wow’ effect when on the table.

Under the Sea Cupcakes

And wow it did. My client was absolutely delighted with them and couldn’t wait to show her colleagues! I have to say that the octopus was definately my favourite of them all!

For the frosting, I used a combo of a blue and white swirl to make it look like the sea.

I had a ball making these and was thrilled with the outcome!