Forty and Fabulous.....

A fashion inspired cake done for a dear close friend of mine's surprise 40th birthday party. The design on the cake is inspired  by a Kebaya designed by the Indonesian Fashion designer Anne Avantie (https://www.facebook.com/anneavantie). 

I had been wanting to do a fashion inspired cake for while and as soon as I saw this (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150260960760938&set=a.10150260942760938.328897.98817075937&type=3&theater ) ,

I  just had to try my hands on it and also knew that my friend likes Orange and Black so thought this would be perfect for her. Had few hiccups along the way but finally got there. Tried the lace work for the first time.My figurine seem to be getting better.... not perfect as I want it to be but much better than my previous ones ( feeling very happy about that :-)).  I don't know whether I did justice to the design, but my friend really loved the cake so that's what matters the most I guess :-)

Life of a cake......

During its lifetime it does usually give so much pleasure and happiness.......I for one aspire to be a cake :-)  !!!!

A Chipmunk: My First Standup Carved Cake

My first Standup carved cake he is about 40+cm (16 inches) high and a bit on the plump side especially  the bottom half ;-). This is the second cake I did in the mist of organising the family birthday lunch for my darling son. For some reason I thought that this was the worst cake I have done so far :-( , until I was told otherwise by family and friends :-). I don't know whether I am still convinced yet?

Theodore in the process of being attacked

What is left of Theodore

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