Rose Vines: A 60th birthday Cake

 

My first cake since I have been diagnosed with mild Carpel Tunnel Syndrome on both hands a week and a half ago ( the nerves on the wrist get pressed which causes numbness and pain ). Not in the best of moods these days. Best part is not to do anything  ( a good excuse... ;-)) and the worst part is I have to learn the hard way what I can do and not do by doing it ;-). the laptop seem to be a definite no no especially the touch pad, piping on cakes (which I hardly do anyway)  also seems to be one but doing fondant cakes I would put it under maybe….with this cake middle of my palm and wrist are were aching after doing the tiny vines and roses on the 60 but the rest of work felt okay even though it did take a lot longer to do( having rest in between) . Even cooking is a yes and no.....like cutting something for a long period of time is a bit painful. I guess anything repetitive  and involves the wrist is not good!!!

Did any of you have this problem and how did you overcome it?....cos I am still passionate about doing cakes and also getting on the laptop. I am trying to avoid surgery as of now and trying to rest my hands as much as possible ( but sometimes the temptation gets the better of me like now :-).....and have four more cakes I have promised and need to do before end of this year hopefully it is not too much of a load!!)

I should be talking about the cake instead of talking about me so sorry about that… Chocolate cake with chocolate filling covered with orange flavoured buttercream and then fondant. Wanted to go subtle this time with the colours. Hope you like it . Got the idea of doing the vines when I went to the display garden at hunter valley and saw all the lovely roses there.

Thank you for looking and for all the lovely support, encouragements and comments that have come my way since I started this blog.

 

Bows , Ribbons and Roses : A 60th Birthday Cake

The Cake Gods and Goddesses were conspiring against me with this one....First I couldn't get any ideas on what to do 'cos my head was full of 'DIY mini Home Renovation' ideas and starting a cake just wouldn't stick...then I started running short of time and stressing out  and by then an idea and me were  just  poles apart ...... then it was the plumber with our old kitchen sink ( The kitchen is still unusable 'cos  we have to do bit of DIY waterproof painting and tiling etc..) .......then  it was a Positive parenting course I had to attend yesterday...... etc and finally when I was 3/4 way there the lights goes off  at 5pm (winter is starting so it gets dark early) but there was a silver lining in this only a fuse had gone lose and power points were still working ....so I used a couple of table lamps to finish off the cake. One of our friends came and fixed the fuse problem for us. So nice of him.

Took some photos of the cake with my hubby going off in the background about how late we are, we will be the last ones, they will be waiting etc..... ;-), so don't blame me if the photos don't look that good!!!

He was right.........We were the last ones actually.... most of them had actually finished dinner too .....OOPS

With all that stumbling blocks... this is what I finally made:  A full Vegetarian Cake with painted ribbons , bows and fabric roses for a lovely Aunt very very close to my heart......................