Themed Birthday Cakes

As me and my friends started our cake decorating adventure we practiced on our friends and families for their birthdays. The following are a few of these from last year. 

 The car we made we was for Jodi's dad. He's a car fiend. It was interesting cutting the cake into the shape of the car. We made the wheels and headlights out of candy, and the icing was fondant.

This one was for Jodi's brother's girlfriend. She was having a cocktail party and wanted a cocktail type cake and short of making a 3D cocktail glass cake this was the best we could come up with. It was pretty easy to do and was fun doing the piping around the outside. I definitely want to practice more doing piping.

As you can probably tell this was for a friends 30th. It's pretty self explanatory what he was in to. Haha. We had lots of fun making the sports gear and the cars. Also all made out of fondant.

Cakes!!!

So I like to decorate cakes. I like to decorate them more than I like to bake them, but that's mostly because I'm always scared I'm going to stuff the cake up and it will taste horrible.
The first cake that I made, with a lot of help from my step-sister was a joint birthday cake for my two friends who I usually decoarte cakes with.
Since it was for both of them it was going to be too hard to do a themed cake so I decided something pretty would be easier. So I do what anyone does when they have no ideas, I go onto google. and trawl through a whole heap of photos. It's amazing the cakes that people have done. So I found a few and after talking with my step-sister, Toni, I decided on this one. Bright coloured fondant with stripes and dots and flowers with vines coming out of the flowers. It took all week as we were making it up as we went along but I'm quite proud of the result. I enjoyed doing it. This was the beginning for me.

The cake is just a basic chocolate cake. Was a hit, and my friends loved it

So much effort for 30seconds for everyone to sing Happy Birthday and then for Jodi and Neisha to blow out the candles and then it was complately decimated.... Sigh....