Emma 's Birthday Cake.

 

 Just   a quick update on stamping on icing.  I did decided to give this a whirl on the dress of this Barbie cake I made for my son's partner Emma.

I was pleased with the way it turned out and I think Emma liked it too. The strange thing was she had no idea that I was making her a cake let alone what the theme for my cake was.   So when she turned up wearing a Barbie T shirt all we could do was laugh.

The cake was a rich chocolate sponge with lots of chocolate/ cream cheese  cream inside.

I tiled the cake board to give the impression of a floor and painted marbling on the tiles with a little food colouring. I used  Stampin' up s grosgrain to edge the board.

 After stamping the flourish  image from Stampin' up's Creative elements s randomly over the icing,  I stuck loads of little sugar pearls  over the skirt.  The whole the  thing took me three days to complete.  But I did bake  two batches of cakes as I wasn't happy with the first batch and there was an awful lot of cleaning and sterilizing tools and stamps  going on in between.

 And here is the Birthday girl herself moment s after the waitress brought  the cake over to our table.                She really didn't want to cut the cake. Reluctantly she did.

Happy Birthday Emma!! 

 We hope you have had a Great Day.

Stamping on Icing Experiment.

Once every five years or so I  get a crazy notion in my head  to make a birthday cake for somebody..... I am not the greatest cook in the world  by a long chalk. So my cakes are usually ummm......interesting.   hee hee.
I am always trying to come up with  easy idea s for decorating cake s that will impress with the minimum of work.

 Yesterday I had a wacky idea to stamp the icing to save me the effort of piping. This morning I selected the stamp I thought might work best  gave it a good clean brushed it over with icing sugar  to prevent it clogging up with icing and had a play.  It doesn't look to bad. In the photo  you can see I have brushes some icing sugar into the  pattern to high light it. Not sure how long it will remain visible before the moisture from the icing makes it disappear. Not sure if I am going to use this idea on the cake I am in the process of making. But if I do I will post a photo showing you the result.

Here  I have taken it a step further,  I stamped in colour. I made a make shift ink pad from a square of kitchen roll.  Then mixed food colouring paste and  a pinch of icing sugar with a little vodka until it resembled a syrup then painted the kitchen roll with the mix.                                                            Having stamped the image I dusted it lightly with icing sugar, to absorb the excess food colouring and help prevent any colour bleeding that may occur. I brushed off the icing sugar and this was the result.  Not as too bad for wacky idea. It can be a bit hit and miss and requires practice to get a good result.