Easy Fondant Flower Tutorial

Apologies for the lack of posting recently. Life has been extremely busy and I am only just keeping my head above water :-)

Last week it was my daughter’s teacher’s birthday. Remember what I made her last year? This, this and this!

I swear, everything always happens at the same time and last week I felt like I had no time at all. So.. I needed to make a cake that was time efficient, but still had a bit of a wow factor! I saw this beautiful cake on Cake Wrecks and decided to make something similar!

Fondant flowerfondant flowerI whipped up a very quick video tutorial whilst watching an episode of The Voice (see? multi-tasking….!) Enjoy!

 

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How to make an inside surprise cake

You might remember this Wonder Woman cake I made a few weeks ago…

Wonder Woman birthday cake..and if you follow my facebook page, you would have seen that the top tier looked like this..

Inside surprise cake

 

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Dairy, sugar & gluten free chocolate cake

Last week on my facebook page I shared a picture of a cake that I had made for my Crossfit Coach

sugar free chocolate cakeNow, I wont get onto my love of crossfit, or paleo eating on this blog (don’t get me started!), but after mentioning that this cake was in fact sugar free, dairy free and gluten free, I had many requests for the recipe!

It isn’t one of those cakes that is free of everything, including taste! So definitely keep this recipe aside for the time when you need to make something for someone with allergies… or, like me, you are sugar free.

The cake is like a mud cake in texture, rather than a sponge cake and the recipe is adapted from Paleo Spirit

I made 3 layers of a 6″ round cake, but it would make a standard 8″ cake (though you probably wouldn’t get a massive amount of height… you would need filling to add to this)

  • 1 cup coconut flour
  • 3/4 cup high quality cacao powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 3/4 teaspoon sea salt
  • 9 eggs
  • 3/4 cup coconut oil (melted)
  • 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup (I buy this at Aldi!)
  • 3/4 cup brewed coffee
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons vanilla extract

Beat the eggs for 1 minute and then add the remaining wet ingredients (coconut oil, maple syrup, coffee and vanilla) and beat until combined.

Mix your dry ingredients in a bowl and then add them to your mixer. Beat slowly, scraping down the edges until combined. Then beat on high speed for 1 minute. Add to a fully lined tin and then bake on 160 degrees. Baking time will depend on each individual oven and whether you are baking layers (I baked 6″ layers (3 of them) and I think they took around 30mins each), or the full cake. Just keep checking until a skewer comes out clean.

Sugar free cake(sorry I don’t have any close up or inside pics of the cake!)

And now for the best bit… the ICING!!!!! I thought long and hard about this… I really wanted something that tasted like icing and was nice and fluffy. My Coach had one request and that was peanut butter!!! So, I whipped up two cans of coconut cream (excluding the water) and whipped it for a few minutes in my mixer. Then I added 3 large spoonfuls of peanut butter and added some pure maple syrup to taste. It was AMAZING!!!!!!! You could easily add a paleo nutella, or mix up some raw cacao powder with water and make a chocolate version. Just make sure your peanut butter is the real deal and doesn’t include sugar.

I topped off the cake with maple syrup baked bacon pieces on top :-)

Enjoy!

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How to make a fondant monkey

It was Molly’s 4th birthday last week and to celebrate we had a little party at a local playcentre with some of her kinder friends. I had some serious disasters with her cake… attempted a chevron pattern, then tried ribbon borders and then completely lost my cake decorating mojo so went with good ol’ loyal circles!!!

Fondant monkey Monkey Cake Fondant monkey Fondant monkeyHere is the video tutorial for the monkey topper – I hope you enjoy my kid’s cameo’s in the video!! haha.. clearly I was too focused on my monkey topper and they were completely high on sugar after making (and eating) their own monkey toppers!!!

 

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How to make Vanilla Extract

I wanted to show you quickly how I make my own Vanilla Extract because it is SO easy! Not to mention economical as the tiny bottles of pure vanilla extract in the supermarket are ridiculously expensive.

All you need is a bottle of vodka (get the cheapest you can find) and 6-10 vanilla beans. I buy my beans in bulk from ebay and they are wonderful quality and kept in an airtight container, they will last over a year. Another money saver as I think you buy two vanilla beans from the supermarket for around $8-10.

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How to make a Wonder Woman Cake – Part 2

I know a lot of you have been asking about how I made the rope, so fear not! Part 2 is here!!! Wonder Woman birthday cake

Enjoy, and have a wonderful weekend :-)

 

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How to make a Wonder Woman Cake

I made this Wonder Woman cake for this beautiful 5 yr old daughter of one of my good friends

Wonder Woman birthday cake

Jessica was having a super hero themed party and really wanted a Wonder Woman cake, so I used this design, which is a popular design from around the web (sorry – I don’t know who to credit for the original design).

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How to make a car cake – part 2

Happy Monday everyone :-) I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

I wanted to show you some more photos of my Wiggles Big Red Car Cake (excuse the baking paper! I didn’t want to move my cake too much)

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I purchased my edible image from Ninny & Goggle – Barbara sells her icing sheets for $20 plus postage and I had a full sheet which was great because my kids ate one of the edible images once I had cut it!!!

In this final part of the Wiggles Big Red Car cake tutorial I have two videos – One which shows the covering the cake with fondant and making the wheels, and the final video shows how to make the finishing details on the car. For the first video, see here.

I definitely stepped out of my comfort zone with this cake, but I’m glad I did! I hope you can see by the videos how my cake definitely didn’t start out looking perfect… but I am so happy with the finished product! You have to keep persisting with this, and as I say to everyone – practice makes perfect! The more cakes you cover with fondant, the easier it gets and you learn something new every time!

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How to make a car cake – part 1

Happy Easter everyone! I hope you all had a lovely break and indulged in plenty of chocolate :-)

I’ve just finished a Wiggles Car Cake – more photos to follow later this week, but I wanted to share the first video which shows how I carved and ganached this cake.

Please note that this cake started off looking pretty terrible!!!! You will see in the video, but I wanted to include those parts so that you can see the process I go through. Most of the time my cakes look pretty ordinary during the decorating process and then towards the end they magically come together :-)

I will post the remaining videos later this week. Enjoy!

Wiggles birthday cake

 

 

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Easy Easter Bunny Cookies

I’m delighted to be sharing a recipe for some easy Easter bunny cookies over on the Feeding Guide blog today. These are SO simple and a bit different to the normal easter cookies you usually see.

Easter Cookies

 

Easter cookies

 

For the full tutorial, head on over to the Feeding Guide  and for a video tutorial see below. Happy Easter everyone!

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