The Cake Diary

Learn and help each other decorating cakes, share techniques, recipes and projects through my Cake Evolution.

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Cupcakes day

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A Giraffe, a frog, a lion and a rainbow

I add a lot of fun doing the giraffe even though it was repetitive  for the skin. I struggled a bit to attached the parts to the body, I think my paste was maybe to soft, but overall it hold.

I did my own gum paste for these ( I wanted to save money as gum paste is not cheap), found on Lindy Smith’s book but it wasn’t really easy to do, specially with a hand mixer.  I still have a lot to learn,…

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Mini Cakes – Flappy Birds To learn new techniques I've decided to challenged myself to do 8 mini cakes with different flavours  (

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4 Flappy Birds, a lion, a frog, a giraffe and a rainbow

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Vosgienne / Black Forest with Raspberries

  This was made 3 years ago for my boyfriend’s 25th birthday.

This layer cake is one of my…

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Vosgienne / Black Forest with Strawberries Recipe

  Ingredients for the cake :

8 eggs

400 g sugar

200 g plain flour

2 tablespoons of cocoa powder

In…

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So it was recently my birthday, and I was told to close my eyes and walk into the kitchen. There was a white box on the table, (it looked like the ones in cake shops), so I assumed it was a cake. (This was rather unusual as my family don’t really focus on cakes and usually get cheap ones from supermarkets. I was totally not prepared for what I saw when I opened it!  

This is the best cake I have ever had my whole life…

I had to put a flower on Toothless’s head… #It had to be done

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SO MUCH WANT

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Chocolate Fudge Cake Recipe

This Cake is tasty and good for carving, it really fits well with chocolate ganache too.

I’ve used this recipe from Lindy Smith’s blog , to make the Christmas’ Hamsters :

This makes a 20cm (8in) round cake 7.5cm (3in) deep – ideal for celebration cakes

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Step 3 : Decorating

First I covered the cake with white sugarpaste.

I did less photos afterward I was way too focused.

I  then put another layer of white where I wanted to let it white and added the grays on the one on top . I tear up the dark grey to make some kind of texture. I did the black with my finger  to an uneven tone.

I then added the orange and brown. I did the eyes with a white  dot because it’s always cute.

Then muzzle and paws…

I did the ears with some pink and either gray or brown on top, glue it with water. Edible pen for whiskers and that’s it :)

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Step 2 : Carving

First I've start defrosting my cake at room temperature and start piling up the pieces together.

I used chocolate ganache to glue to part together.

I covered the cake with Chocolate Ganache to fill the holes and smooth the bumps (previous mistake). Next Step : Decorating :)

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Step 1 : Baking, stenciling and preparing

As this project was in 3D I had to have a precise idea of the amount of cake I had to do. I calculated where will I cut or add a big piece, and I actually I did it all with a 8" square tin.

Starting from scratch it wasn't easy and I had to have many tests ( to find the perfect stencil).The final result look like that :

I've previously baked the cake and frozen it (it was advised for carving).

I was afraid that it will alter the taste or dry my cake but it really didn't!

I used the Chocolate Fudge Cake Recipe from Lindy Smith's Blog and Book. The cake looked like it just exploded. I let it cool down and cut it in half.

This is the cake just out of the oven, Can you imagine the hamsters yet?.

The night before I decorate I prepared my colours, as I use only white sugarpaste (fondant) I had to do every colours that I wanted to use then I've added some gum tragacanth to correct the texture of adding too much colour (See : I'm learning from previous mistakes).

Because once I start I can't stop, I've decided that I could do snowmans...I didn't have any modelling paste so I used sugarpaste instead. I tried to do a broom but the paste couldn't hold even with a toothpick so I've decided not to do it.

I used a toothpick to hold the carrot and the eyes and button are made with edible pen.

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Christmas' Hamsters

All my cakes have a story but this one is the most complex to explain so I will skip the complicated part and the "Why did I do two hamsters fucking?". 

Let's just say that I had to do it, and because it was Christmas I did a christmas hat, a snowman and a snowwoman :)

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Step 3 : Correcting Mistakes

I woke up decided to make this cake look good.

I removed Rosie's royal icing letter and put a white layer on the center of the cake which looked like a cushion. 

I also did 2 more roses of each color to complete the circle (as it wasn't a croissant after all, it just looked unfinished).

For the writing, it was just a nightmare as I used almost all my red food coloring and it was difficult to do the exact same colour.

I watched several videos on youtube to learn how to do the two-tones colour. I've decided to use this techniques, chose my nozzle, did many tests and finally finish this cake and TADA!

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Step 2 : Decorating the cake with Roses and a Bow

First I did a black ruban with sugarpaste.

My first idea was to alternate red and black roses : do 2 big and 2 smaller from each color and position them in a croissant form and write Rosie in the middle.

My 2 smaller ones were quite big and my big ones not big enough :)

I put them on the cake and it looked like that : 

I followed instructions to do a beautiful bow, thanks to youtube videos.

Even if I wanted to go to sleep so bad and my feet were killing me I've decided to write "Rosie" on the cake (as planned).

I never had to write anything until this moment and as I was tired and royal icing was easier to make I've decided to write with royal icing.

BIG MISTAKE.

I went to bed after that.

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Step 1 : Cover the cake and the cake board

I did a 10" round Chocolate Mud Cake with 2 insane layers of Chocolate Ganache .

Everytime I'm baking a cake it crackled and rise too much but this time the cake almost blew up. I had to fix it up.

I wanted a more smooth aspect for this cake (try to avoid holes and bumps) and I saw a video where the baker cover the all cake with chocolate ganache to have a smoother aspect.

While the cake was cooling down I've done a red and hot sugarpaste and covered my cakeboard with it. I use vodka and a brush to remove sugar stains.

Back to the cake : It was easy for once to put the sugarpaste on the cake (without adding color no problem of consistency)

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Rosie's Birthday Cake

For this project I didn't have a theme but I've decided to go with a stylish cake with roses and a bow.

I chose to go with red and black to go on a white fondant cake.

Now let's the cake talk!