Zebra cake topper tutorial

After last weeks jungle cake I decided to make a tutorial for the zebra cake topper.

I havent made many tutorials before but I hope to make more.

Feel free to follow my tutorial and post your results over on my Facebook page.

I look forward to seeing them. Here is is, Zeb the zebra. I think he was my favourite topper on the cake.

zebra cake topper tutorial

Stay tuned as I'll be sharing a tutorial for Chunk the monkey soon too.

Jungle cake

Last week I got to make a 3 tier jungle themed cake for a little boys 1st birthday. I loved working on the jungle cake.

First off here is The influence behind the design

And here is my design.

Jungle cake design.

This cake was rainbow vanilla cake on the inside with vanilla buttercream. Here are the progress shots (my favourite) from the crumbcoat stage to the finished cake.

Progress on the jungle cake.

A few tweaks along the way and the addition of a cute giraffe but I was really pleased with the final cake.

The finished jungle cake.

Little Henry was turning 1 and has quite a lot of food intolerances and couldnt enjoy any of his birthday cake so I made him 6 of his very own special cupcakes which were gluten, nut, soya and dairy free coconut and lime flavour with a diary free coconut buttercream. Delicious!

Allergy friendly coconut and lime cupcakes

Jungle Party

This week Im working on a jungle themed cake for a little boys 1st birthday. I made these cute animal toppers and I just think they are adorable.

Jungle Toppers

Ill be sharing a tutorial for the zebra (I didn't have time to make a tutorial for all of them unfortunately) over on my facebook page The Handcrafted Cake Co. sometime next week.

Im going to be a bit sad to see them go. Im off to a wedding on Saturday whilst these guys will be partying it up. I love their little faces :)


You can find the zebra tutorial here

Captain America Cake

Last week I worked on 2 cakes. I think the Captain America cake was by far my favourite thing Ive made in a while.

The brief was for a 4th of July/American themed cake for 2 little boys so I immediately thought of Captain America. Their mum thought the idea of having the shield design viewed from above was really clever :) I was chuffed that she'd noticed Id sneaked his shield in there.

Captain America Cake

Captain America cake top view

This is a taller than standard cake made up of a 5" chocolate cake and a 7" vanilla cake.

And the verdict?

"Cake was devoured, kids and adults were blown away by the design. First kids party we've held where there hasnt been a scrap of cake leftover, I managed to grab a bite and Oh My God, the taste!! Gorgeous! Thanks so much, it was a brilliant finale to the party."

3 day Jessie Toy Story cake process

So as you know from my last post I like to take progress shots of all my cakes. I work around a 3 day schedule for each cake.

Last month I made a Toy Story cake for my boyfriends niece who was turning 2. She is obsessed with Toy Story so I knew she would love this Jessie the cowgirl inspired cake.

I had a slight disaster with this cake. I was trying out a coconut ganache (made with coconut milk instead of cream so it was dairy free) and for some reason, as soon as I put the fondant on the ganache started to ooze a horrible clear fluid and the fondant pretty much just slid off it. Not ideal. It was another one of those cakes that I wanted to throw at the wall but I took a few deep breaths and got back to it and it turned out ok in the end.

Here is the 3 day process.

3 day process Jessie the cowgirl cake.

3 day process 1920's flapper cake

I like to take process photos of each of my cakes to show the customer how their cake was made. I work around a 3 day schedule, baking and crumbcoating on day 1, covering the cake and board in fondant on day 2 and stacking and decorating on day 3.

I havent seen many people post progress shots of their cakes but I thought it was a nice way to show how my cakes get made and I also hope it makes it look more achievable for other budding cake makers.

After I launched in May, this was my first order. A 1920's flapper inspired cake. The customer provided me with her husbands pocket watch, a brooch and some pearls. The couple were celebrating a combined 90th birthday (he was turning 50, she was turning 40).

3 day process on the 1920's inspired cake