Birthday Cake Designs and Magical Cakes

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Birthday cake designs

It just takes a bit if practise for birthday cake art. You can make magical cakes within a few hours. All you need is some roll out icing, squires sugarcraft, food colours and perhaps an odd item of sugarcraft equipment. Sugarcraft icing is great, if it goes wrong, screw it up and start again. If you feel a little uneasy you could always buy a sugarcraft dvd to help you get started. How did I learn cake decorating, it started with a birthday cake. Since then I have been hooked using sugarpaste equipment from sugarpaste moulds to other sugarcraft equipment. My main friend is sugarcraft books, which are a source of invaluble information.
My Hello Kitty I made for my friends little girls birthday, the butterfly has landed on her foot, I think this makes it really cute.
On the other side of the coin I have made a warhammer cake, both cakes have a magical quality in their own right for the people who asked for the cakes to be made.

Cakes are great because you can come up with all sorts of designs for what the individual would like.

Birthday cake art and Magical cakes

Art of sugarcraft

type=textWether its an animals cake or a dino cake, have fun. When making cakes that need stability, I used the important ingredient, tragacanth gum powder. This is added to the roll out icing to make it stronger. Tragacanth gum powder was used in most of my cakes, anything that needs to hold its shape, I use this sugarcraft product. The pegasus is made using this ingredient. This is a pegasus but omit the wings add a horn and turn it into a unicorn.
Any pieces of sponge/kitchen paper you may see is holding the item in place while it dries.
This was my first attempt at a tiered cake.....I was very apprehensive and watched a lot of video footage and read a lot of books so I could achieve this cake for my daughter.

I make birthday cakes but have seen how exspensive wedding cakes are, I would like to try this out as well. Prices of wedding cakes vary so much and I think I would like to see if I could produce some at a more competitive price.

Star cutters used for Pegasus horse cake.

Star Plunger Cutter, Set of 3

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Plunger cutters are great, cut and pop out you design really easy. My favourite type of cutter because it's sooo easy.

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Cute Hello Kitty model for top of cake. 

Butterfly plunger cutters for Hello Kitty's foot.

NY Cake Butterfly Plunger Cutter, Set of 3

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These are plunger cutters, in my opinion one of the best cutters around.
The reason I think these cutters are so great is because they cut, shape and add detail to the wings of the butterfly.
They are quick and easy and give such a fantastic finish.

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Warhammer 40K Cake in progress

Warhammer cake in stages

Letter moulds and cutters

FMM Upper Case Funky Alphabet & Number Tappit Cutters Set

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Tappit cutters, clikstix or ejector cutters are all brilliant. Again, they cut and pop out the letters and numbers that you require.
Great if like me your not so good at piping with icing! See MP3 cake for an example or Warhammer photos for a more detail.

Grey Knight 40k

Games workshop warhammer birthday cake 

Warhammer space marine codex

Space Marine, Warhammer 40K 

Chaos Warhammer 40K.

Games workshop

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50 Easy Party Cakes by Debbie Brown

cat birthday cake

This cat birthday cake was taken from 50 Easy Party cakes by Debbie Brown. I think her books are fantastic. I made the cake for a village show and won second. First went to my sugarplum fairy cake.
Sugar glue is essential for assembling the cake, water is sometimes not big enough for the job!.
Sugarplum fairy is at http://www.squidoo.com/sugarcraft

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sugarpaste products

Books to help you with your cake art
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  • aj2008 Aug 12, 2011 @ 1:18 pm | delete
    This horse loving family just loves that Pegasus Cake.
  • Canterbury Cakes (blog.canterburycakes.co.uk) May 23, 2011 @ 8:28 am | delete
    Your unicorn cake is beautiful!
  • Momsbusy247 Feb 21, 2011 @ 3:42 pm | delete
    You have some wonderful cakes, they are almost too pretty to eat!
  • cakegirl Jan 17, 2009 @ 10:31 pm | delete
    Your cakes are too cute! I love them! Thank you for this lens. I really enjoyed it!
  • jbhumbug Dec 17, 2010 @ 3:08 pm | delete
    Glad you like them, thanks for visiting

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