This month I had the opportunity to create two cakes. The first cake was created for my nephew who was turning 10. He chose his theme to be captain underpants. First I thought, "who in the hell is captain underpants." Then I remembered it is a children book. I borrowed one of my nephews book and traced the cover of the book on parchment paper. It was a bit tricky...the design is easy but I needed to make sure I traced the cape in separate parts. Once it was traced I rolled out the fondant and placed the parchment paper over it and tooth picked all around (now I found out I can get a paint brush and trace with piping gel). Once that was completed I took my embosser tool and cut around the holes. With a few stars here is my cake.
The inside was also great, I got the rainbow cake idea when watching the martha stewart show (you can get the recipe from her website). The kids loved it!
My Dora cake was created for my sister-in-laws boss. I was able to have fun with this cake because they said do what you want and we will pay. So i did what I wanted and this was the end result.
It was my first time doing figurines. If you go to youtube there are so many tutorials that teach you haw to make figurines. I had the hardest time putting on Dora's hair. In order to do boots and swiper I looked at fondant cakes online to mock their figure.
This is boots. I think he came out really good. I had the issues with Dora.
Swiper is my favorite. He came out perfect. Since he likes to hide and take Dora's things I hid him in between the leaves.
Practice Cake:
I do cakes with fondant, that is just easier for me. So, I decided I want to learn to do some icing flowers. So I learned to make roses out of icing and created this small cake.
