Saturday, 11 December 2010

My first cake order :-) peppa pig

I love making and decorating cakes, but so far I have only have made them for family and the only ones to order them from me were family. So I started showing photos of my cakes around work and finally got my first non-family order :-D woohoo.
It's after 2am and only half an hour ago I finished decorating a cake which is being picked up at noon tomorrow :-p. Yes, I am the queen of procrastinators. I made the cake after dinner and didn't start decorating till around midnight (that includes designing and deciding what to put on it and printing out a template to copy). Then I worked incredibly slow and careful because I knew if I messed it up I wouldn't be getting another chance, I had left it too late.
Luckily, it's gone well. Hope it tastes as good as it looks! I've made it for a friend who has ordered it for her granddaughter's 2nd birthday. I'm wondering now whether to add any more decoration but I think simple works best and I don't want to ruin it. It's safe in the fridge and I just hope I don't manage to kill it before she picks it up.
The cake is vanilla sponge with butter icing and strawberry jam filling. Then I jammed the whole thing and rolled out some ready to roll icing to put on top. I used to find that the hardest thing about making cakes; rolling out the icing without it sticking to the damn board. Because no matter how much icing sugar I sprinkled on the surface first, at some point it would stick. A colleague suggested putting down some cling film first. I sceptically tried it out and it actually does work!
Peppa and the balloons are also ready to roll icing that I coloured in little portions. I had fun making the eyes and balloons but I almost forgot to make her tail! Which ended up being the hardest part of her to do.
Anyway, here it is, my Peppa Pig cake:
I rearranged the balloons a bit after this picture because the 'a' looks rather lonely up there. I might make some sugar paste buttons in the morning and stick them on the sides. Or maybe sponge some light food colouring on the sides although I can't think of a colour that won't clash with the balloons.
I'll have to get some opinions in the morning when people are actually awake. Meanwhile, I better be getting to sleep myself.

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