Blackboard baking

This educationally-slanted cake was made for a friend of a friend. Black icing can be a challenge to work with because it stains everything around it, but it does look pretty good.

The Hangover

Ah, my sister's 22nd birthday cake. I was inspired to make this after being shown some pictures of exemplary amateur cake making by a friend of a friend which I inexplicably took as some kind of challenge, despite having never met the woman. Spurred on by her rather spectacular efforts, I set upon the fondant with feverish enthusiasm, determined to create my magnum opus by doing a still-life of my sister's room on a Sunday morning, complete with empty beer bottles and discarded clothes. My sister quite rightly called me a freak when she saw it.

Itsy bitsy teeny weeny

The plate in this picture is actually a tea saucer I picked up cheap from an antique store just for the occasion. Luckily I only had to make one cake because icing a cake that small without ending up with something that looks like Gaudi's Sagrada Familia was quite a challenge.

Cannibalism is his reward

Unfortunately for Spidey, his sweet and sugary existence was ended by a pack of hungry five year olds and if there's one thing movies have taught us, it's to never get between a pack of feral children and their chosen target. Look at the ones in Hostel, they were pretty much as bad as the sport killers. The feral kid from Mad Max set the standard and they've been trying to raise the bar ever since. In this case, a butter knife rather than a boomerang was the weapon of choice.

The Nana Cake

This is a cake I had to make for cake class which was fondly dubbed the Nana Cake because it's the kind of thing only someone over, say, 60 would probably want for a birthday cake. Having demonstrated my capability for creating buttercream basket weave at the expense of my wrist tendons, I've never actually had the opportunity to use it again. It turns out even my grandparents aren't that into edible baskets. Who knew?

In the beginning, there were cupcakes....

These cupcakes have put me on the spot somewhat for my first rant, given that I can't actually remember why I made them or who I made them for. There's not a whole lot about rose cupcakes that inspires strong feelings of any kind, so I shall let their pleasant rosiness speak for itself.

Cakes and rants to come

Soon enough.