Vanilla Rainbow Cake

I can't believe it's been so long since i posted (must do better!)

My sister requested a 21st birthday cake for her friend and i took to google for ideas.

I've always loved the simple beauty of a rainbow cake, they are perfect unisex cake and because the suprise is inside, you can keep the outside fairly simple.

I must profess, i am a messy cook, i had multi coloured finger prints everywhere but it actually found it really relaxing to make, despite only have 2 sandwich tins.

The sponge and buttercream are both vanilla and it turned out mighty tall but tasty.

30th Smarties and Curly Wurly Birthday Cake

A colleague at work asked me to make a 30th birthday cake for her friend's birthday. After much umm-ing and arr-ing over whether i was up to the task, i accepted.

She had no demands other than it had to have 30 on it and there be a chocolate element. Such a loose specification scared me and i took to Google images for some much needed inspiration.

After stumbling over some amazing looking cakes, i landed on the idea of attempting this Smarties cake from Ferris Cakes. But taking the idea of using curly wurlys on this cake i had long ago found on Nom!

After posting for help on Cake Central, the creator of the cake actually replied and was especially helpful.

So, 12 tubes of smarties, hours of baking and a rather messy kitchen later, this was the result...

I was semi happy with the results.

In an ideal world (or with better planning from me lol) i should have done the numbers in the same colour, ideally blue like Melanie's and baked my cakes the day before, so i had the day dedicated to decorating, rather than turning into a stressed mad dictator in the evening before delivery, barking orders at my poor sister as she helped lay smarties.

My colleague was very happy with the cake and days later, her and her flatmate were tucking into the remains.

Hello Pretty - My Hello Kitty cake

Last year I embarked on a cake decoration course after boring my colleagues to death about how much I’ve always wanted to do it.

12 weeks later, I found that most of what I learnt from the course, I could have watching the plethora of amazing cake decorating tutorials available on YouTube, from the comfort of my own home.

My dear colleague Okwuchi was keen for me to make her daughter's birthday cake (and 36 cupcakes for her school friends) and after turning her down many times (who wants to be remembered for making a shitty birthday cake, let alone the stress of this being my first 'professional' cake).

No brief was given (which again triggered the panic sweats) but her only request was to make sure it was 'pretty'.

Her daughter, like many her age, has a love of all things Hello Kitty, so my decision was made.

The cake is an 8 inch Victoria sponge cake, coloured pink (sorry for no pictures of that) with raspberry jam and vanilla buttercream filling. It's covered in pink vanilla buttercream and topped with fondant Hello Kitty faces, sugar pearls and shimmery butterflies.



A tutorial to how to create the Hello Kitty faces are available here, as you will see, I modified mine and used Wilton decorative gel for both the whiskers and bows.

So, how did i do?