Last weekend it was my Nans 90th Birthday and we had huge family party to celebrate. I had the real pleasure of creating the cake especially for my Nan. She had asked for a fruit cake with a candle she could blow out. The cake I created was in a dusky pink and purple theme with added hints of gold…
The colours I used gave a real vintage feel to the cake, and I loved combining the dusky pink with the gold. The cake itself was a 10 inch fruit cake covered firstly in marzipan and then in white icing / fondant. The roses, hydrangeas and butterflies were all hand made out of gumpaste.
One of my favourite things about this cake was the candles. I had been looking for some nice large ’90’ candles which would really compliment the cakes. I was so happy when these arrived. I brought them from Janina hand made candles and they really were fantastic. They were completely covered in gold glitter and looked lovely poking out from behind the flowers. Because of the gold the candles brought to the cake I added the gold ribbon and also painted one of the butterlfies gold to tie it all together.
I was so happy with how the cake turned out and we had a lovely time celebrating with my Nan on her birthday.
If you would like to see how I made my roses and hydrangeas please check out my Youtube videos by clicking the link below:
Gumpaste Rose tutorial
Gumpaste Hydrangea flower tutorial
Athfaa Ahmed
December 18, 2016Hi lyns I hope your okay… I have to say yu are a very talented individual.. duno how yu learnt to bake cakes & cupcakes but your amazing totally love your videos ever since I came across them a few weeks ago when I decided that I’d like to do my son’s first birthday cake myself. As times are hard I’m limited to what I can buy in terms of equipment for the whole process what my question to yu is as I’ve also posted on your YouTube channel nd thought to message yu again as I didn’t know when yu would reply is.. is there any problem if I were to use pound lands brand of nozzels or the wilton ones for the decorating of cupcakes… & secondly what’s easier to work with for a beginner guppaste,buttercreamcake, or fondant… thank yu I’d love it if yu could help me out…
Andem Nina Bassey
November 17, 2017what is a marzipan? I would love to know
Lynsey
November 22, 2017Hi Andem, Marzipan is used alot when covering fruit cakes. A layer of marzipan goes on before the icing / fondant. It is applied the same way fondant is, so rolled and applied to the cake. Marzipan also has an almond flavour. You can also use marzipan to make models, the same way you would fondant.