A Princess Cake For Our Little Princess.

My darling daughter wanted a princess cake  and she wanted Princess Ariel because she had seen me do one before for a friend's daughter but I didn't want to repeat the same thing  and wanted to have a different twist on it so Ariel had a swing  to sit on which actually moves and then Frozen was supposed to be released and Princess Elsa and Olaf was a great temptation and it sort of snowballed on from there I ended up making  3 princesses and their friends for her 3rd birthday. Was she happy?......... well she was ecstatic from the expression on her face when she saw the cake....so I was pretty pleased too :-).

Also wanted to push my limits with this cake since it is going to be my last cake for a while ( at least 6 months to rest my hands and hopefully temptation doesn't step in :-)). It did take a while to create from loads of planning , to creating the cake board ( numerous visits to Bunnings the hardware store, to using the driller, hack saw, putting in all the support, ensuring that it is all food safe), to doing the figurines, to setting it up , making the cake and carving and putting it all together. It has been made with butter cake, chocolate cake and red velvet cake, orange flavoured butter crean and chocolate buttercream..

Few hiccups along the way and few things not very happy with..... The party for the family was supposed to have been end of last year but due to unavoidable circumstances was postponed to yesterday. I had real trouble restarting the cake after the X'mas/ New Year break and being sick just after,  only managed to waddle through beginning of last week and somehow managed to finish it, cook and arrange the party . Luckily I have found out that I seem to work better under pressure, I also had most of my figurines ready( Ariel, Jasmine, Elsa, Olaf were done last year but Flounder and Rajah were done last week) and I had so much help with the food and desserts; Thank you so very much, your help is greatly appreciated .

Today I have a splitting headache and my hands are gone, feel like a bulldozer had just driven all over me. Well I guess I will survive and all this for the love of my daughter :-).

Overall pretty pleased with the outcome. Hope you love my creation.  There is also a little video(not full size) to show Princess Ariel on a moving swing,  and princess Jasmine on a flying carpet ( This backfired a bit, initially she was going to be just on one support but I underestimated how back heavy she would be come and had to add another support :-( )......all this handmade my MOI......Hope my technical experimentation and my cake making is worth having a look :-). 

Thank you so much all you wonderful people for your awesome support so far.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dessert made by my Sister-in-Law

Lovely green dessert by my Aunt.

Little Mermaid and friends......

Me thinks that this cake from the beginning was bit JINXED.......This is how it started .........

Started couple of weeks ago on the topper for a cake which I had promised a while back for a close friend of ours’ daughter who wanted Ariel, took a while to do this, was not really happy with the proportions but I was too tired and painful to do anything more on her decided that I had finished with her, took some photos and when I was picking her up, she toppled over and fell…... the tail broke and then had another accident and the hand broke :-(. Didn’t end up doing anything on it for a week or two.Finally two weeks ago I got around to trying my hand at fixing her. (First two picture are before the accident and the pics after that is after the fix).

She doesn’t look like an Ariel I envisioned …...even had thoughts about redoing her, In my present state I didn't end up however…..

Making of Sabastian and Flounder went without any mishaps luckly.To tell you the truth,  I quite love how Sabastian has turned out....

This cake was supposed to have been made for next Sunday for the kids party(the actual birthday was yesterday). 

I got a call from the distraught friend that she had been misinformed at the place she had booked initially they had said that she could bring the cake but now they are saying she can't,  even if she buys their cake. She wanted to know whether I had started the cake already and if I have started whether it is possible to get it the next day with minimal decoration maybe just sprinkles for the actual birthday. Initially I was a bit reluctant being not sure about the thawing the buttercream and filling and also my son had a school program which started at 5:30 and finished at 8:00pm, then I thought of my friend's little girl who was very excited that I was making a cake for her so I decide that I will do it somehow. 

Luckily for me , it was a really hot day, the toppers were ready, microwave and the mixer were at hand, however this was not the cake design I had planned to do for Sunday which would take lot more time and I was short on time. 

So after a sleepless night this is what I came up with .....made with love.... Our friends were quite happy with it me thinks......

So now that we have come to the end our story ;-)........... what do you think?

Thank you for looking, reading.