Harry Potter Cake

I made this Harry Potter cake last week for a friend's birthday. I was mad busy with other stuff so I only had around 2 hours to decorate it. 

The black bandage and colours at the top are slightly cracked and very imperfect because I was so rushed. I used the Gryffindor colours as well as making a Golden Snitch and Deathly Hallows symbols. The Golden Snitch was made with yellow fondant which I then painted gold and I cut wings out of gumpaste. With the gumpaste wings, I cut and painted them. I then left them to dry overnight on a rolling pin so that they would be slightly curved. I had made small hollows in the body of the snitch so I could insert them with sugar glue. Unfortunately, one wing snapped off in the car as we went over a pothole. I was kicking myself! If I was to ever attempt gumpaste figure like this again, I'd assemble it on site which is what a lot of intelligent bakers do! I used a LOT of gold and silver paint! Anyway, it went down brilliantly and I was pretty satisfied with my work.

Charlie the Unicorn

So, it was Gemma's birthday a month ago and I had made her the pony stable cake for the previous birthday which was a huge success even though it wasn't one of my best cakes. Gemma LOVES Charlie the Unicorn so naturally... a Charlie the Unicorn cake!

My other buddies, Katie, Tom and Misha made a Candy Mountain cake to accompany it, but unfortunately I don't have pictures *sad face*.

I wasn't as careful with this cake as I should have been so the icing is horribly jagged and cracked. I hated myself for this as it's one of the things I struggle with in decorating. I'm trying though!

Love Tash xxx

Christmas Cake

A very late upload the other Christmas cake I decorated for a family friend's present.

The fondant is quite damaged as my mum forgot to take pictures and packed it up in foil inside a tin. *facepalm*. Fondant goes quite soft if kept in a tin, and with a foil wrapping - it is quite malleable and so you get foil crinkles. I tried to make a Christmas tree shape with the stars but I had about an hour to do the cake before the Christmas post closed... sooo it's not that great...

Writer's block

I realise that I haven't been updating this blog as much as I should. Don't worry, I haven't had a baker's block! I've just had so much stuff on for the past two months with GCSEs, family stuff and general charging around England, that I've been crashing whenever I get a moment Anyway, I'll do an update of what you've missed!

I made my first ever gingerbread house! It wasn't perfect but I was pretty proud of my first attempt! Unfortunately it's still sitting on my sideboard untouched as I made it for Christmas and took it to my dad's house but no one wanted to break it. I melted down some clear mints and made cool windows! I used melted white chocolate for a covering of the roof as I ran out of eggs for my royal icing. The royal icing for the gingerbread was quite easy to make but it took a while to set so I had this sort of scaffolding propping up every piece of gingerbread and taking over half my kitchen in the process!

 There's my cat, Casper just chilling in the background....

P.S. Do you like my new blog background? I got bored with the old one...

Christmas cake!

I offered to marzipan, ice and decorate my Dad's christmas cake this year. By this time I had the tiniest amount of modelling icing left due to decorating a yule log with ten year old triplets, decorating another christmas cake and a gingerbread house. So I decided to do a very minimalistic but classy design. 

Each star went alternated between sparkly silver and gold which looked so cool!

Mini baubles on the christmas trees!

Blog Update

I am now back from skiing and my blog has returned to trusty English. I've done some pondering and pandering and decided that I'm going to set up a new blog purely for my witterings. So I shall transfer all non-cakey thoughts on there. This blog will purely be for nommy cakes.
If you are a fan of my mad thoughts (are you crazy?!) then go HERE ---> http://tasha-rex.blogspot.com/

Thanks to all :)
Tash

Help!

Currently I am skiing (well not whilst writing this) in Morzine, France. I intended to upload all my photos of cakes and other baking while I'm here. However... My blog has converted to Frenchism. Meaning that I have no idea of what anything says. It took me several presses of random French buttons just to post this message. So, I am not neglecting my cake duties, but I am merely defeated by a very confusing language.