A long time ago in a Galaxy far , far away...........

This is my take on a stacked cake(thanks to Verusca) : Star Wars Angry Birds  "Red Skywalker" stamping on "Lard Varder"  till he sees "STARS", with "Princess Stella Organa" and "Chuck "Ham" Solo" for company.

Red Skywalker , Lard Varder and the base are made of cake.

This was done for my darling son for his class birthday party yesterday. Initially I was not going to do Angry Birds (had already done one for my hubby  (Stiched up with love ) last year and I was sort of over it) but persistent nagging from December 2012 by you know who  and love eventually made me give in :-). 

The following picture shows what I initially planned to do but due to unforeseen circumstances and time I had to cut short on my characters.

 

This is just a prelude to I don't know what, his actual birthday is next week and I have to do another cake ('cos family is coming over for lunch and my son expects another one as usual (what are mothers for he thinks???)) and I haven't even started anything on that  yet (+ cooking lunch).....GOD help me!!!!! or rather........

The Aftermath......

This was the state of the Angry Birds after a battle with my kids.

These were part of  the cake I had made for Kaaviyann's Class Birthday party. I wasn't interested in  making angry birds again ( I had made angry birds for my Hubby's birthday cake last year). My son's nagging ( he started as far back as December last year) finally got through to me and I finally ended up giving in ( what else mothers do?). So here is part of it, will update the rest soon :-)

AFTER

BEFORE

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......................

Tutorial: The way I made my Waratah (Telopea speciosissima)

A quick picture tutorial on how I made my Waratah . Hope it will be of help to some people. Any questions please don't hesitate to ask :-)

 The materials used...................

• Gumpaste + Red colour paste
• Rolling pin, and Board
• Ball  and  Dresden Tool
• Water and paint brush
• Crisco or Copha to roll out paste
• Flower wire (I used #26 inner tips and #30 for the outside petals )
• Burgundy petal dust for the inner central tips and apple green petal dust for the outer petal tips
• Lily cutter or  you can print out the shape and cut it out on cardboard and use it as a template.
• Corn starch to roll out the little circle using the ball tool
• Thick and Thin sponge
• Toothpick
• Pliers to cut the wire
• Polystyrene Balls ( next time I do this flower I would cover the ball with red gumpaste before doing the rest)

Stepping Stones : Life so far and beyond..... ( 40th Birthday Cake)

I don't know whether what I have done on the cake is more confusing now than ever.....This is the first time I have had to think of explaining what I have done on a cake. I don't know what it says about my design sense ( A design on a cake has to speak for itself... here I don't know :-( ??) . 

I tried to depict major milestones in my hubby's life as stepping stones.

The 40th Birthday Cake..... 

 

Starts with the Blue Water Lily (Nymphaea stellata) on the cake board, the national flower to represent my hubby's roots and next is the first stepping  stone with the year he was born and baby hand prints. 

Way down the line comes the stone depicting when he landed 'Down Under' going onto the next layer of cake which contains the Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha) (last minute quick one) and  Waratah (Telopea speciosissima) the national and state floral emblems to symbolically represent the lovely country we have called home...... which contains the stones for the graduation , marriage and the year the kids were born.

Now going on to the next layer of cake containing the figurine representing my hubby ( a caricature?) about to step on a stone with 40 written on it,  holding a card my kids made for their Dad (Appa). The stepping stones after this is going into infinity to represent long life.....

Well that is my take on my cake made with love, I don't know whether you will like it ...love it or hate it BUT my Hubby loved it and I got away with putting flowers on the cake too ????... so that's what matters I guess.

Thank you so much for looking and hope you love it too :-)