2 Tiers Minnie Mouse Cake and Mickey Mouse mini Cupcakes

Okay.. Here's another Epic cake that I was talking about last week. I made this special order for my high school friend's daughter who turned one. Who doesn't love disney characters when we were a kid? I still find them adorable as an adult and when I went to disneyland in Japan, it was so magical! So, here we go.. Thanks to my friend and gave me a chance to make this minnie mouse cake as well as mickey mouse mini cupcakes for her daughter's 1st birthday.

Since I started doing cake decorating, I have a dream to make tiers cake or a wedding cake. I'm always up for the challenge and can't tell you how exciting I am on every cake that I made for every order. As always I have my loyal and helpful extra hand from hubby to assist me. I can't be more thankful..

I saw lots of minnie mouse cake on google. The one that really caught my eye is from Lesley from The Royal Bakery. Thanks to Lesley's tutorial on her facebook page for Minnie Mouse cake. She gave the tips on how to make a bow and the frill for underneath minnie mouse skirt. My friend also mentioned that she requested the blocks for the name, so I wrapped each block of cake with coloured fondant.

The flavour of the cake is chocolate orange cake. You can find the recipe here and I used the chocolate orange buttercream for each layer and finishing with chocolate orange ganache.

My friend also requested for mini cupcakes for the kids at the party. These mini cupcakes are also chocolate and orange flavour based and using the same recipe as the cake. I cut out black fondant to make the mickey mouse's ears and using small ice cream scoop to shape the buttercream. Making this cake, took me one whole day to decorate the cake. Luckily, I had a day off from work to make this happened. Every time I made an epic cake, I have this imagination in my head that I will drop the cake before the day. Oh thank god, that only stay in my imagination.

Here's the closer image for the mickey mouse cupcakes. Aren't they adorable?

Overall, it was a successful party and I received a great compliments from my friend and the guests at the party. Just really made my day..

For anyone in Melbourne, Australia, interested in custom cake/ dessert order for birthday, wedding or other special occasion, please contact me on flamingpot10@gmail.com

Last but not least, Happy 1st Birthday, Cadence! Let's enjoy a slice from minnie mouse birthday cake and mickey mouse mini cupcakes army!

Thomas Tank Engine Cake

Are you ready for this?  This is one of an epic cake I've ever made so far. The last 2 weeks have been awesome for me with the cake order! So, to give you a clue, the next post will be another epic post! Can't wait to share more..

Initially, my lovely customer wanted to order Elmo Cake for her grandnephew then she changed her mind as the little one's current favourite character is the Thomas Tank Engine. So, train cake, that is! It was an exciting challenge after all.

Thanks to You Tube, lovely Thomas Tank Engine Cake Tutorial and Favourite Character Cakes book by Debbie Brown to give more insight about the technique and all the things I need to know to make this cake happened. I wouldn't lie making thomas cake is harder than they look, they are so much details and best to prep them at least week in advance. I am very fortunate to have an extra hand from my husband who assist me, I can always count on him. The base flavour of the cake is mud cake and ganache with dark chocolate. You can find the recipe here.

Here is the cake before I ganache. I showed below undecorated train cake picture to my best friend and she can not see any resemblance to thomas train cake. Hmm.. wait till I started decorating them...

 Here it is once I ganache the cake...

Ta-da... I present you Thomas Tank Engine Cake..

4 Layers Marble Cake with Thick Chocolate Ganache

Happy Monday Everyone! Hope you have an exciting week ahead of you.. As for me, I am preparing an epic cake this week for an order and I can't wait to share with you on the next post. There will be some techniques I will share with you all as well.

A few weeks ago, Me and Hubby celebrated our 14 years together. Time really does flies.. We've known each other since I was 16 and he was 19. Oohh.. Memory...

I had lots of leftover egg whites from my last order, I could make another meringue but I thought making marble cake would be a great choice. Yes, I made 4 layers of cake! I must have lots of leftover egg white from my previous order!

In the meantime, let's enjoy the marble cake with thick chocolate ganache while I am preparing my next exciting cake challenge...

Layer Cake with Chocolate Wafer Stick and Dipped Strawberry

Just a quick post in the middle of busy week while preparing on my next cake challenge. A week ago I received an order to make Layer cake for a birthday. I made other type of Indonesian Layer cake before but never make this kind. The cake consist of 3 layers. The good thing about this kind of layer cake recipe is much quicker to make as the other kind of layer cake may take up to 4 hours to bake.

I borrowed the special tin from my friend who happens to have one to make this layer cake. 

So, this is how the single cake turned out. Once the cake is cooled completely on the wire rack, we spread each layer with Strawberry Jam. I made another batch and attached them side by side together with Strawberry Jam. 

This is one of Indonesian Signature's cake and very common for birthday and wedding in Indonesia. I used simple and delicious Mocha Buttercream and added the chocolate wafer stick, maltesers and Chocolate dipped Strawberry for the final touch. So here they are.. 

In the meantime, for anyone in Melbourne, if you are interested in custom dessert orders, please contact me on my email flamingpot10@gmail.com. 
Stay tune for my next exciting cake post.. I will have some more cake to celebrate.. xoxo