Christmas cupcakes

Decided to try my hand at making the poinsettais. Getting the red to be really Christmas red was not easy and I did add a lot of colour. Used the Wilton red (no taste) almost half a bottle.
The holly and berries were store bought.

Brandied Fruit cake and Rum & Raisin Loaf

Been busy baking the brandied fruit cakes for Christmas. Don't you just love the smell of the fruits and brandy and mixed spice as the cake is being baked. The whole house smelt like a fruit cake. :-)

Freshy baked fruit cake.

Splash of brandy and they were ready to be wrapped.

The fruit cakes all wrapped and ready to go.

Rum & Raisin mini loaf.
Received the mini loaf tin from a Anis in Melbourne
and could not wait to try them out.

Cute mini loaf tins.

A Picture Perfect B'day Cake

Tried making a camera from fondant but in the end just found this toy camera to subsitute. Using black fondant is not very easy and it often turns out more grey than black. So didnt want to spoil the whole cake by having an ugly looking black camera. The fondant carrots were added too for the carrot cake, which is topped with cream cheese.

A simple Wedding cake

Just a simple "wedding cake" requested by the mother of the groom as an offertory gift during the wedding mass. She baked the fruit cake and asked me to decorate it. Tried out the frills using a frill cutter I have had for ages. The roses were store bought.

Christmas cupcakes

Someone viewed my blog and said.."hey how come there are no Christmas themed cakes". So these are the first batch of Christmas cupcakes. The cupcakes are orange flavoured, covered with butter cream.

Holly & Berries - made from royal icing.

Christmas Wreath & candle, piped in butter cream

Manchaster United Cake - No2

Another MU logo cake for an MU fan. The cake this time was a chcolate cake topped with butter cream.

Had a little trouble with the run-out though it did turn out ok. The

Not Quite Full Monty

This was a surprise cake for the Birthday boy. The cake is a double layer chcolate cake topped with chocolate ganache. Overall the figures turned out ok, but am still learning to what keeps them intact.