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Vans

Tobias and Ash both love Vans, so what better than a Vans cake? (Thanks Sarah & Kamara for the suggestion!)

I decided that the cake should be as chequered as the icing, so assembled strips of chocolate and vanilla cake to make a block from which I would carve the sneakers. I also needed to figure out how to make the checkered icing have squares that actually looked square. After doing a small proof of concept, I decided to cut out small white and black squares from very thin fondant, and lay them on a thin layer of white fondant. It is amazing quite how many hours it took to make a sheet large enough for the shoes!!

 

   

   

   

 

Biscuit

All the other pets have had their cakes, so Aron wanted Biscuit this year. Fortunately, she is very photogenic! Take a look at the video to see us cutting the cake.

 

Bakewell Tart

For those of you who’ve never come across a Bakewell Tart, it’s a shortcrust pastry shell with a layer of raspberry jam (with maybe some fresh raspberries thrown on top and crushed a little), a layer of frangipane (a fluffy almondy sponge), and a topping of either flaked almond or feathered icing. I prefer the latter, hence that’s what I make!

Astroworld

Tobias really wanted Travis Scott’s album Astroworld. As the cover art is quite complex, I focused on the disc itself. The pandemic meant everyone would be attending remotely via Zoom, so I also made little mini-discs for each of the attendees’ party bags so they could all have cake at the same time.
 
 

Skiing

A friend’s dad loves to ski, so she gave me a photo and some ideas of things he likes, so I made a montage including the ASL sign for “I love you” and a cable car gondola.