A quick cake for my hubby.....

My hubby is not a big fan of cakes ......cutting one is always the last thing on his mind, so I was initially not going to make one but due to pressure from all ends ( not him but everybody else ) .

Voila......A last minute vegetarian chocolate cake  with a mishmash of some of the decorations I had made previously and covered with only chocolate butter cream.

A Wonderfully Talented Lady that INSPIRED Me........................

When I first started this blog.....I had intended to use it as my diary... as my log for all my creations. Hence you saw all things made by MOI.  

Today however I want to talk about my INSPIRATION... The lady who inspired me enough to start a journey into this wonderful world of SUGAR ARTISTRY. I want show you a little bit of the work of this fabulously talented lady. She doesn't know that I am writing this so I am using whatever pics I could take and have from the cakes she made for us.

When I first saw her cakes I was so much in awe with her beautiful dainty creations... the flowers she makes are to die for, this was about more than 10 years ago. I wished then that I could  create something like that or at least half of that. ........

Then my wedding came up and wanted desperately to have her cake for our reception. It was less than a month to the wedding and quite a few people told me that she usually needs a lot more than a month's notice for her to accept a wedding cake...........

I hoped , I prayed and I called......................... I was so over the Moon when she said YES she will do it.......  It was a gorgeous two tier hear shaped cake with dusty pink and green Orchids (One of my favourite flowers) and royal Icing lace work on the sides and ribbon. It tasted awesome too.

These are the pictures of the Orchids I took today more than 10 years after they were made....They still look like they were made yesterday..so Beautiful, so Real, so much attention to detail, such clean and neat work....... Don't you think so?. These are just half the Orchids she made, there is another lot just like this in another box, such patience to make all these delicate dainty flower.... I wish i had half of that......

She also ended up making my son's 1st birthday cake. That too was at the last minute that I asked her (I was going to try ... to do my first proper cake but I was too scared to start and then something came up  and I was unable to do it ) , she was quite busy but she took some time to  make a cute Bugs Bunny Buttercream cake.

Thank you so much for being so lovely to us and for being such a beautiful INSPIRATION in my journey..............

 

A Double sided 16th Birthday Cake.

As usual this is not my initial  design  it had much more... so much more on it but TIME...  Time... time (only 3 days start to finish).... always plays against me or rather maybe I happen to think I am a SUPER WOMAN and falls short of it:-( .  Now if you happened to notice any gaps in the cake design you know why!!. So this is what I ended up doing.

A cake I had promised a long while back to a dear little girl who is actually a lovely young lady now.  I found out she loves the colour blue, loves music, plays  Piano and Saxophone , watches horror movies and loves reading.  I couldn't do all of them so decided to pick on a couple to create this cake..... a double sided Piano/Saxophone Cake.  She LOVED it , hope you do too....

Used Satin Ice Fondant to create this cake.

A Lastminute Cake for a Friend

A last minute surprise cake for a good friend who loves Jasmine. kept it simple. Hope you like it.....

 

Fancy a Piece

Festival of Lights : A Collaboration for Deepawali (Diwali)

I am back again......hopefully with a BANG..........

We are 37 cake artists from around the world, all from different countries and regions with different backgrounds, religions and ethnicities. We have come together to acknowledge a beautiful, special Hindu holiday which is celebrated in Spring of every year. It is called " Deepawali or Diwali", also known as "A Festival of Lights". It is India’s biggest and most important holiday of the year!The festival spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair. During the festival, which is celebrated for five days, Hindus prepare by cleaning, decorating, shopping, gift giving and baking sweet treats for loved ones. Feasts are prepared and families come together. Prayers are offered to deities. Stories of ancient myths and legends are told to children. Children prepare for the celebration by painting rangoli chalk designs on walkways and on the night of Deepawali (Diwali) , fireworks are displayed. It is the happiest of all Hindu celebrations!

As cake artists we wanted to represent this beautiful holiday in cake form. Each of us designed our cakes based on the gorgeous colors, rich traditions and religious practices inspired by Deepawali. Please join us to celebrate Deepawali ! We hope you enjoy……Happy Deepawali !

We were lucky enough to be featured in two of  UKs reputed cake Magazines : 

Cake Masters (October Issue Festival of Lights) 

and  

Cake Geek (International Cake Collaboration: Festival of Lights (Part 1),
                   International Cake Collaboration: Festival of Lights (Part 2))

and a Special video on youtube done by Candace's lovely son

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=torlLWchPWs&list=UUv2c48vQZt88i89ruCwawuQ

My Inspiration..................

When I was initially asked to do a Deepawali (Diwali : Festival of Lights) inspired cake the memories of wearing new cloths and going to the Temple with my family was what first came to mind. Once I thought of a Temple ..... Kolam ( Rangoli: Patterns created on the floor ), Deepam (Diya : Earthen Lamp), flowers, hanging lamp and bell , a girl doing the Kolam, a black stone/granite Goddess for the temple, a girl praying ( my dear friend Candace suggested that) sort of trickled in one by one.

All these tied up beautifully with the feel of a temple during the festive season. I wasn't sure whether I will manage to do all of them but wanted to try and see where it leads me.....after lots of learning, Ups and Downs....I did spend a lot of time trying to work out the structure, the hanging lamp and bell, figurines and photography. Here is what I have finally realised in Sugar ... Hopefully you like it :-).

A few appreciations I believe  are in order too. 

First of all Thank you so much Candace for thinking of me and having faith in me to be part of such diverse and talented group of cake decorators world over . My Firstever Collabortion :-) . 

Thank you so much to the wonderful, talented supportive group that I got the opportunity to work with and all the lovely friends I have made along the way in the cake world.

I am also very grateful to CakeMasters and CakeGeek  for agreeing to publish us and finally

Thank you so much to my family for accommodating a grumpy old ME :-)

 

Wish you all a very Happy Deepawali ( Diwali) in advance.