Fit For a Princess Cake

When someone asks me to do a Disney Princess cake I can't say no!

As someone who works in animation and still has a secret lifelong dream of someday working on a Disney film, I really wanted to do something awesome.

I wanted to do a cake that somehow represented all of the princesses, without actually having to mold each one. So I decided to take something that represents each one and make that instead.

 

And well, I'm an animator, so instead of printing each princess image and sticking them on I thought I'd draw little sketches of them, and make them like vintage cameos.

 

And have them going all around the cake.  The birthday girl's favourite princess is Mulan, so I put her picture on top.

 

The cake itself is a victoria sponge with pink almond buttercream icing.

  

Here's a view of the top. Hopefully people can have fun guessing which thing belongs to which princess! ^_^

London - Day 7

Today was like a casual Friday in class! What with finally assembling all of our work. So I took the opportunity to sneak take lots of pictures, bahahaha!

We made roses and it was so fun! Her method of making them is pretty awesome. It still takes practice to do, but so much less cumbersome than the methods I've learned so far. Plus, look how adorable they are!

Blank canvasses! (Shh they're sleeping!)

Learning to decorate our wedding cakes:

Everyone's so focused!

My gift box cake with the carrot cake inside. Looks like a nice one for a baby shower. Here they call it a "Christening" cake. I ended up giving this one to the people at the hostel. The guy at the reception desk was SO happy! I've never seen anyone so happy to get a cake, and he said "no one's ever given me a CAKE before!!!" It was hilarious! I don't even know if he ended up sharing it with the other people, hahaha.

  

And these mini Victoria sponge cakes are just so cute that I took a billion pics of them. I have them with me still, I couldn't bring myself to give them to anyone. Wish I could bring them home to share with people!

On with the food porn...

My finished wedding cake. Betcha can't guess which one is the dummy cake, hahaha!

So I had to carry 2 boxes of cakes home (the gift and the minis), and the Tube was absolute chaos! I was just kinda being shoved around for awhile, cause I was a bit shocked, lol.

Did I mention that I cut myself in class? Well I did. I managed to have a cold, injure my wrist, AND cut myself in the first week! It was so embarrassing! I had to get a big blue band-aid and wash every thing and throw out fondant that had blood on it, and I just wanted to cry and give up, but I didn't. Good thing it's the weekend.

Near where I'm staying there's a sushi place, with a bar, so I had me some sushi and Corona for dinner, cause damn it, I deserved it after this week.

And cake for dessert!

ON TO DAY 8

London - Day 2

So I'm in London, and I'm starting on day 2, cause day 1 pretty much sucked: Overnight flight that I got no sleep on, check. Sitting next to weirdo, check. Screen on the seat that doesn't work, check. Tons of turbulence, check. Also, being in a hostel is not the most comfortable. You get what you pay for I guess...

Are we confused yet?

I decided to make my way to the Academy today to make sure I knew where I would be going tomorrow. It took a while to get there, lots of walking through sloppy slush, but I finally found it!

This is what I came ALL this way for!

 

Complete with nice menus!

And cute displays!

 

It's so cozy here, so I stayed for a while to warm up and have my own little tea party with a red velvet cupcake and vanilla tea. And as if to welcome me, they were playing some Canadian music; Michael Bubl :P

 

So cute, even the receipts are pink!

First day of class is tomorrow, we'll see what happens!


ON TO DAY 3

Modern vintage sweet 16 birthday cake

Or, For Those Who Hate Fondant

This was a sweet 16 birthday cake with a special request: They didn't want the cake covered in fondant! Actually I know quite a few people who don't like fondant and wonder if it's possible to make a cake without it, or maybe just with normal icing and fondant decorations. Well, apparently it can be done! All the white part is buttercream icing.

I'm not a huge fan of fondant myself, so making buttercream that's just as smooth as fondant is something I really want to get better at. Here are some detailed pics:

It was also requested that the cake have lots of pink, so I went crazy with it :D I also was inspired by Marie Antoinette (I love that movie from a few years back), and Laura Ashley