New cake!

June...that is such a gorgeous cake! My 7 (almost year old now wants that cake for her birthday (yeah right). What did you use for the frosting?

Thanks!  I used fondant, known as sugarpaste in the UK.

June

your cakes really are pretty.
i love the way fondant icing makes a cake look so smooth...

Mmmmm... blackberries!

Gorgeous cake, June! 

You have such a talent, June! Keep posting your cakes.

Lovely cake. What do you use for the colourings? Do you use colour pastes? I like the boldness of the shades.

I am amazed by your talent.  You really seem to have a knack for this. 

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL cake.  I'm very impressed.  You really should open up your own shop.  I'm sure you'd do extremely well.

Thanks!  I used fondant, known as sugarpaste in the UK.

June, I'm doing another sugarcraft class now. This one is slightly different from the other one I took - we'll be doing a Christmas cake, but are also experimenting with transferring cartoon characters, magazine pics, etc. to cakes, as well as making 3D figures. Anyway, for cutting out shapes, my tutor recommends using 50/50 paste, which is a mixture of fondant (sugarpaste) and flower paste. Apparently the fondant gives it some strength, but the flower paste helps it dry faster and become more 'stiff.'

Just thought you might want to know! 

June, I'm doing another sugarcraft class now. This one is slightly different from the other one I took - we'll be doing a Christmas cake, but are also experimenting with transferring cartoon characters, magazine pics, etc. to cakes, as well as making 3D figures. Anyway, for cutting out shapes, my tutor recommends using 50/50 paste, which is a mixture of fondant (sugarpaste) and flower paste. Apparently the fondant gives it some strength, but the flower paste helps it dry faster and become more 'stiff.'

Just thought you might want to know! 

Interesting to know!  Good luck on your class!  I start a Wilton course today, the first one.  I want to learn to pipe decorations.

June

Lovely cake. What do you use for the colourings? Do you use colour pastes? I like the boldness of the shades.

I used gel paste colors from Americolor.  I used the shades called electric green and electric pink.  Squires Kitchen in the UK have a great paste color selection as does Sugarflair.

June

Very nice work, June!

June your cakes are always awesome. I agree with the others that you should be doing this, you're so creative about the decorating.

WOW what a beautiful cake!! 

June, I'm doing another sugarcraft class now. This one is slightly different from the other one I took - we'll be doing a Christmas cake, but are also experimenting with transferring cartoon characters, magazine pics, etc. to cakes, as well as making 3D figures. Anyway, for cutting out shapes, my tutor recommends using 50/50 paste, which is a mixture of fondant (sugarpaste) and flower paste. Apparently the fondant gives it some strength, but the flower paste helps it dry faster and become more 'stiff.'

Just thought you might want to know! 

Interesting to know!  Good luck on your class!  I start a Wilton course today, the first one.  I want to learn to pipe decorations.

June

I would love to take a class like this, where is it?  do you have any info or a website maybe? Thanks!

The classes are the Wilton classes and they are mostly offered at Michael's.  I am in the US now but I know of a store in North London that offers them too.

June

WOW what a beautiful cake!!  I would love to take a class like this, where is it?  do you have any info or a website maybe? Thanks!

My class is a free one through my local college.