Absolute Vodka and Playing Cards Cake

Today is the birthday of one of my oldest friends in the world. One of those who went through those "teenage angst" days with me, laughed and cried with me, will down that huge glass of inhumane amount of alcohol when I'm on the verge of barfing for me, basically, just grew up with me friends. To mark this day, we came up with the idea of a cake that makes us, well, us...! So what do we do when we get together? Indian Poker!!!!! 

Fairy and Elf Cake

Is there ever such a thing as too much of a good thing? I have been churning out cakes and more cakes the whole week, I spend my waking hours (even skipping gym(!)) at our kitchen island ( I absolutely ADORE our island btw) kneading, cutting and moulding fondant. Not to say its a bad thing, but because I'm running a one man show here, I hardly have time for other types of baking. Breads, tarts, Pierre Herme's Plasir is high on my to try list, cookies, pastries etc. I love making fondant cakes, i really do. But fondant cakes are more inclined towards cake decorating, not really baking. And I do enjoy the baking aspect very much. I haven't baked a decent cake since July. OOoooOOo..... I still remember what i made! It was a Poire D'Eve. It was a 5 layer cake, consisting of a Feuillantine base, salted caramel mousse, vanilla pear bavarian cream and pear glaze at the top. Oh, truly decadent but so friggin delish. Which brings me to the whole point of this blog in the first place. I started this blog with the intention of having some form of digital record for the things i churn out in the kitchen, but it seems that so far, i have yet to post a single recipe and all that has been up here on this blog are just orders for fondant cakes. 

Race Car Cake and Cupcakes

So the iPhone cake was handed over to client last Thursday. The basic shape of the cake was pretty straight forward, but the gazillions of apps on it was a pain in the arse to do. Pardon the language. Its not that i disliked making them, but i actually enjoy making 3 dimensional things a wee but more. Case in point, the 3D basketball cake was so fun to do! It made my brain go into over drive just figuring out how to get the spherical shape of the ball, trying different recipes, different bowls, how to give the basketball a more realistic texture (thanks to the darlin husb who gave me the idea of using our drawer mat!) et cetera.

Anyways, today I have completed my rascal of a son's race car themed cake! Did i already mention that I absolutely adore making kid's cakes? Their always so lively, brightly colored and vivid! Anyways, we'll be having a MacDonald's party for him tomorrow, a first in the family, yes i know, where have we been living on? Mars? So all of us are pretty psyched up about it! : )

iPhone Cake