Baby shower cake

For a friend who decided to wait until the baby was born to find out if it was a boy or girl! A beautiful baby girl was born much to her parents delight! This cake was just perfect for a neutral cake, I especially loved making the teddy bears :)

Dairy factory cake

Glenavy dairy factory; Dad once again has been hard at work building the new dairy factory in Glenavy. Stationed in Oamaru for at least a year, he finally made it through the long hours and the long time away from mum, Yet another work place shout, Im pleased I could have the opportunity to help.

 I thought I would add in this blog, my process in making the cakes. Our kitchen is a 1948 rimu original, with about 500mm of bench space. Most of my work is done on a table that I was lucky enough to grab from work. Organisation is the key to getting my cakes baked, and some kiwi ingenuity of course!

For this cake, I had to make two large cakes, the dish is actually a roasting pan and the bowl is from our slow cooker. I couldn't find a bowl big enough in my cupboards to fit the 4x mixture!

After the cakes are baked and cooled, they are stacked on top of another and given a healthly layer of chocolate buttercream crumb coat. Smoothed out as neatly as possible, I can then layer the fondant on top.

 As a rule of thumb, the fondant should be rolled out almost twice the size of the cake, the challenge is not only my table size... its getting that large amount of fondant on the cake without ripping it! Thanks Dad :)

Deep sea diving cake

Another cake for the wonderful family up the hill! The ideal theme cake when an eleven year old boy is dreaming to become a diver.
I had instructions to have sharks on the cake - as long as they were happy sharks :)
This is my favourite cake that I have decorated, I enjoyed making so many tiny sea creatures, thanks to google once again for the inspiration.