More Recent Fondant Cake Art!

I made a Mickey Mouse cake and cupcakes!

 The Mickey Mouse figurine is made out of gumpaste.

A Despicable Me Birthday cake!

Despicable Me Minions Tutorial: 

Loved making this one. The Toronto skyline is edible, I created it with an airbrush.

This was a little boy in big city theme birthday party!

Close up of the edible gumpaste converse shoes!

And a close up of the edible Toronto skyline cake tier.

A super mario, luigi, princess peach fondant cake!

Here's a 90s theme birthday cake, it has nintendo, N'sync and super mario!

Fondant Cake Decorating: Mahjong Cakes!

I made a set of Mahjong tile cakes for my friend.

The most challenging part was cutting and making sure all the cakes were the same size.  I was at the cake store recently and saw the rectangular cake dividers and didn't buy it, yep I was kicking myself for that! Took me about two hours to cut all 14 cakes and ice them. I had to make sure they were all the same size and all the angles were perpendicular. If any one of them were slanted, it would be obvious. 

 

 

 

I made vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream.  A good way to see if your cakes are the same size is to use the negative space left from the cake board. I made sure the silver border was roughly half an inch on all four sides. The 14 cakes were not the same height so I used buttercream to add a bit of height to some of them to make them all the same.

To make sure the angles are all perpendicular, I had to freeze the cake after each buttercream coating, this took most of the two hours.

I rolled out the white fondant and covered each tile. When you're working with a square/rectangular cake, always smooth out the corners first. 

Trim away the excess fondant and smooth it with the fondant smoother.  When you work with square/rectangular cakes, it's easier to smooth the cake with two smoothers.

I made some green fondant with Leaf Green edible colouring, rolled it out (thinner than the white fondant) and cut it with the ribbon cutter.

I attached it to the cake with water.  You can see there isn't much of the silver cake board border left.  Be very careful when you place the cakes together in the box after, I had two of them touching and I had to redo the green layer.

 

All 14 are covered with fondant and ready to be painted!

You only get one shot at this, so don't make a mistake lol. I'm Chinese but I never had to write Chinese characters.. so this was super difficult! I've had to paint Chinese characters for other cakes before,. This is what I do...I paint the character with a thin line and then go back and thicken the line where it needs to be thickened as if you're the character was painted with a brush.. think of the character as a picture, and try to center it by looking at the negative spaces.

I used the thinnest paint brush I have.  I don't use cake painting brushes, the quality isn't there.  I get brushes from Curry's Art store, they have wide selection of style and sizes.

Okay so I did the easiest character first to warm up lol. It's probably best to do the hardest one now and get that over with lol.  This is the 'love' character. Thank goodness I didnt make a mistake. (I should've made an extra cake incase I did though!)

 

Okay so I did the easiest character first to warm up lol. It's probably best to do the hardest one now and get that over with lol.  This is the 'love' character. Thank goodness I didnt make a mistake. (I should've made an extra cake incase I did though!)

Here's all of them together :) So instead of the usual tiles for the 'pair of eyes', my friend wanted to use the character 'love'. So sweet!

That's my blackberry on the table to show the size of the cakes. My friend thought they would each be the size of the actual tile lol, I made them way too big haha.

 

Fondant Cake Decorating: Anniversary Cake!

Hey everyone! This is my first time editing my cake photos and a video clip together, took me a while and it's definitely not something I'm familiar with.  Hope you guys like the video and the cake!

Let me know what I can do to improve my videos :D 

-Joey

Winnie the Pooh Cakes!

Winnie-the-Pooh is one of the most popular cake theme requests I get.

Here are some of my past Winnie-The-Pooh themed cakes!

All these Winnie-The-Pooh cakes were designed by me :) They gave me the freedom

to do anything I wanted. 

This was had a request for "Batman hugging Winnie-The-Pooh", it sounded tricky, 

I really didn't know how to mesh the two together, I made Batman more cute looking 

and the two looked like they belong together now hehe.

This cake was originally a basketball, but with some sort of mix up with dates, they then

asked me if I can change the basketball into a Winnie-The-Pooh themed cake.  After some

carving here and there, I turned the basketball into a pot of 'hunny'.

This one was ordered from a guy for his girlfriend. He wanted something with purple,

some flowers, and Winnie-The-Pooh.  So I decided to make him inside a jar

of honey, with red flowers on the bottom.  I like adding bumble bees on twisted wires.

This was for a 100th day birthday for a baby  boy.  He was born in the year of the tiger, so I had

Tigger on the top center and a little larger than the other two edible figurines.  The cake had to feed 80+ people so I made a 3 tier cake.  I wanted to build a scenery out of the 3 tiers, 1: sky, 2: the forest and 3: the ground. 

This was for a baby girl's 1st birthday party.  I decided to make a giant 1 (I'm not a fan of the number candles).  I rarely use black letterings for kids' cakes but I thought with the strong pink, green, red and yellow, the black popped out really well.  It also ties in with the black from the bubble bee and Pooh's facial features drawn by a black edible marker.

This is one of my favourite cakes I have made.  The mommy ordered this for her son's 1st birthday.  She asked me to do any design I want, as long as it's colourful and vibrant.  I decided to create a honey comb with bees all over (the bees on wires really added to the cake!).  I also added most of the Winnie-The-Pooh cast.

 

That's all, I hope you guys like my Winnie The Pooh cake designs! :)

One of my favourite 3D sculpted cakes I've made to date!

It's a 3D sculpted Winnie The Pooh cake, the lady had asked for something colourful,
fun, with Winnie the Pooh theme, so this is what I came up with.
It's Piglet and Pooh with a giant pot of hunny, and they're trying to get
hunny onto the slice of cake!    

-Joey