Thursday, 14 January 2016

Harry Potter Cupcakes


 

Made in 2015. The are a dairy milk chocolate cake topped with vanilla buttercream and various fondant decorations.To get the oozing effect on the cauldron I filled the fondant with green glaze icing and dripped it down the sides. There is a scarf for each Hogwarts house, a quill and ink well, Bertie Botts beans, a broomstick, a golden snitch with bludger and bat, ministry of magic letter with wands, a cauldron, the sorting hat and Tom Riddle’s diary with Basilisk tooth.


Music Cupcakes


Made in 2015. They are a vanilla cupcake topped with vanilla buttercream and a fondant decoration. The decorations are a microphone, keyboard, cassette tape, guitar pic on strings, a guitar chord and 2 different musical notes. 


Operation Game Cake



Made in 2015. The cake is a vanilla sponge filled with mixed fruit jam and vanilla buttercream. It is then covered in hand sculpted fondant decorations, including game pieces, card and tweezers.


Flower Garden Cake



Made in 2015. The cake is a vanilla sponge filled with vanilla buttercream and mixed fruit jam. It is decorated with fondant flowers, crumbled chocolate cookies to represent the soil and piped buttercream to look like grass. The rose bush is a cupcake with each leaf individually placed in position and then topped with pink roses. The pebbles around the outside of the flower bed were made by using a marble effect on the fondant, to give a more realistic look. Finally the daises in the grass depict the number 90.



Builder's Cake



Made in 2015. The cake is a vanilla sponge, filled with dark chocolate ganache and topped with fondant decorations. The decorations are all hand sculpted tools: a hammer, wrench, screwdriver, tape measure, nail, screw and a pencil. Around the base of the cake is a builder’s belt complete with 2 equipment loops at the back to hang tools.



Shoe Cupcakes


Made in 2015. The are a vanilla cake topped with vanilla buttercream and decorated with a fondant disc featuring a high heeled shoe silhouette and flower. 



Dress Cupcakes


Made in 2015. The are a vanilla cake topped with vanilla buttercream. The dresses are made from white and pink fondant, with the skirt frilled and the bodice shaped and finished with a small flower. Red sugar sprinkles were used as beading to separate the skirt and bodice sections.