The Nightmare Before Christmas is Eamon’s favourite film, and he wanted his cake to include Oogie Boogie, Jack and Sally, as well as his name and age.
I recreated the iconic image of Ooogie Boogie’s silhouette on the moon using coloured fondant, with the patchwork pattern on the base representing Sally’s dress, and Jack’s skull grinning out from the side.
How did I do?
Here is Nick’s character, rendered in cake and icing:
Milo’s cake features Venom battling Spider-Man. The picture was creating as a run-out on wax paper, using multiple layers and colours of royal icing, and left to dry for a couple of days. Needless to say, the kids loved it!
Aron’s EV3, all lit up and ready to go!
Here’s the cake, and the actual EV3 I copied (and then wrapped up to give to him):
Here is Ethan learning how to use the piping bag – with obligatory jar of Marmite in the background! 🙂
An antihero cake, this time: Deadpool.
It’s a chocolate sponge, sandwiched with blood-red buttercream, and covered with white fondant as a smooth canvas for the picture – which I created as a runout using coloured royal icing on wax paper (crossing my fingers and breathing deeply when I peeled it off!).
Jakob and his friends demolished it in a matter of moments!
Climbing…
Climbing as a hobby, and now as a birthday cake? I faced the challenge with the same determination the children face the wall!
I built up layers of chocolate and vanilla sponge cake, sandwiching them together with buttercream and jam, then carved it to shape with the children’s help.
I managed to create a cement-coloured buttercream using cocoa and black food colouring, and covered the structure with it, leaving the surface rough, like the real climbing wall at The Rock Club where they climb.
Before adding the holds
Coloured fondant for the holds
Skateboarding has taken over our home!
Here’s the cake, and Ethan’s Penny Board that inspired it.
OMG, Josh is 20!!! And at 6’10”, what else could I make but a basketball?
Victoria sandwich chocolate cake, crumbled into chocolate buttercream with the help of Ethan and Lexi, then pressed into a glass bowl to form a hemisphere. After a quick chill in the freezer, it was covered in orangey-coloured buttercream and lines piped on in black royal icing, using a real basketball as the template. Add Josh’s name and age, and we were done!
