Tuesday 8 November 2011

How to make a Cricket Bat Cake....

I started by baking a 7" square chocolate cake. Use what ever cake you fancy. Before I started cutting, I put the cake in the fridge for 30 minutes, so when I cut the cake, there's only little bit of cake crumbs.






Then I cut it in half, one half into half again and another piece from that into half. Have a look at the photo to see what I did...






Then I arranged the pieces to the shape of a bat. The biggest piece to the bottom and the medium piece above that and the thin pieces for the handle.









Then I shaped the square edges a bit to get the curved look. Then cut every piece in half and filled with Ganache buttercream and put the pieces back together and put a layer of ganache buttercream on the top. Then I put it in the fridge to firm up a bit. You don't have to put buttercream. You can straightaway use ganache.









Here is the ganache I made. If you want to have a go at making ganache have a look at this video by Inspired by Michelle.. She also got few more videos and they are amazing!!!










Here is the ganached cake.






Once the ganache is firm, I used hot water and my spatula to make it smooth.







Here is the smoothed cake..







Then I covered the handle with brown sugarpaste and then covered the bat with ivory sugarpaste. Once that is done, I covered the board with green sugarpaste. Then added a thin sausage from sugarpaste around the edge of the bat.





I had some styrofoam balls, so I used one of them to make the ball. I just covered it in red sugarpaste. I glued the ball beside the bat and it was a big mistake. Because I wanted to put the grass with green royal icing, and it was difficult to put the grass around the ball. So make sure you put the grass first and then keep the ball on that...









Here is one with the grass........






I finished it by adding the wordings, an edible image cutout of a Kookaburra logo and a ribbon around the board.

More Cakes........


Here are some more cakes that I did..



A Cricket Bat and a Ball. I will be posting a Step by Step on how to make the cricket Bat!!





Teddies and Baby Blocks Christening Cake. I enjoyed so much making this cake. I followed two videos, one to make tiny teddy bears from LorraineMcKay and if you want to learn how make these cute little bears, click here. I also used A fabulous video on making baby blocks from Elaine Thomas, and if you like to learn how to make them, clicl here.



Casino themed 80th Birthday cake. I used sugarpaste to make the chips and the dices. But I cut some card shapes out of pastillage and let them dry completely and attached edible playing cards.




Another cutting cake to go with the Casino Cake..




And a Halloween Birthday Cake. I modeled the pumpkin free handed and really pleased with it.




Tuesday 1 November 2011

Cakes from last few months...



Here are some cakes that I did from last few months....

A Christening cake for a little girl.




Closeup of the Roses.



Pipi Longstocking cake..






And some Cupcakes....



Pearl Anniversary cake...




And Under the Sea theme cake...