Ancient Egyptian Cake

So here I am again, on my cake decorating journey, finding its mystical ways into a realm of gorgeous and delicious cakes. Having only decorated cupcakes, I thought it was time to dipped my toe into the exoticness of decorating a large cake. My boyfriend's mum's birthday was coming up and I wanted to do something really special for her... Why not make a cake? It took quite some planning and buying, but I decided to do an Ancient Egyptian cake as she loves Ancient Egypt. Finding pictures of other similar themed cakes was really tough as i needed some inspiration but after coming across this gorgeous cake, made by a fantastic decorator, Erica Obrien, I based it to become my inspiration: Click here to check it out!

The beauty of making this cake, was just having a go with everything! Baking a large cake was a first for me, and I decided to use cake mix so that it was cheap and easy, yet baking it took much patience as it took longer in a large tin. Here is the outcome :)

Pretty good for a first attempt!

 I covered all the layers in fondant and spray painted them with Wilton's edible spray paint The brown sugar pyramids were made with mixing brown sugar and egg whites to make a consistency  where i could compact the sugar and mold the pyramids with the help of a knife.

 The scarabs were molded out of fondant and the hieroglyphics  were hand drawn using an edible marker.

And lastly, I used buttercream to do the writing :)


As an overall, I think I did quite well although I had a few issues with trimming the cake (It wasn't very leveled) and laying the fondant as it was cracking when I laid it on the cake.


The cake... WAS DELICIOUS and I began craving my own cake! Gee I love cake decorating <3

Cookie Monster and Elmo !

Hi all! So this week for my small business, I chose to do some Cookie Monster and Elmo cupcakes! After having quite some trouble with my piping bag (it developed a hole and leaked icing everywhere!), and finally deciding that using a zip-lock bag as a temporary piping bag would have to do, I finally completed these awesome cupcakes! They were just 'so awesome' that I sold out all my cupcakes yesterday at school - thats right... SOLD OUT!!! Woooh!!! The piping did take some time, but really, the cupcakes turned out to be so good and quite a success.

Enjoy...

I used half an Oreo bisquit for his mouth, royal icing for his 'blue fuzzy hair' and fondant for Cookie Monsters eyes.

You've just got to love buttercream!

Same deal with the royal icing here, and fondant used for the mouth, nose and eyes. Elmo's so cute!

Under The Sea Completed!

Here's the finished product! :) I'm not completely happy with it, but overall I think I did okay!

Yuuuuummmm....

Under The Sea

Week 2 of Scrumdiddlyumptious CupCakes is coming up and I thought I'd do an ocean theme! I've already gotten some little toothpick umbrella's and I'm keen to start baking these beauty's!

So the game plan is that I bake 12 cupcakes with a beach scene (umbrella toothpick, brown sugar sand, blue buttercream icing with a fondant beach towel), 12 cupcakes with little sea critters (blue buttercream icing with fondant turtle, octopus and starfish) and last but not least, 12 cupcakes with blue and pink buttercream piped on top with a swirly effect!

I've got three flavours going: Chocolate, Vanilla and Vanilla with Chocolate Chips! Yum yum yum!

My plan:

The Perfect Cupcake!

So over the last month or so that I've been baking cupcakes, I've had a LOT of trouble trying to get a nice dome shaped cupcake.... aka.... the perfect cupcake!  I know, for those of you who aren't baking and decorating entrepreneurs, this seems really absurd but in the cupcake world, having the perfect cupcake is so important so that you can decorate it properly and the end product is 'perfect'.

So what was happening with my cupcakes is that a lot of them would be saggy, lopsided or uneven. Was I mixing the batter wrongly, do I need to smoothen the batter before I place the tray into the oven?

Well from what I found... NO!

The tip is to get a teaspoon, insert half of the teaspoon into each casing of batter and swirl the teaspoon around evenly. I'm actually not sure how this makes the cupcakes so nicely shaped, but it really does work!
Just remember to not over mix your batter as this can make the cupcakes less spongy and not rise as well.

The 'Perfect' Cupcake

This is not my own photo.

Lady Bugs, Caterpillars and Swirls

Its finally come to Week 1... Of our cupcake and cake business... Our business was named "Scrumdiddlyumptious CupCakes"! So I planned for this weekend that I'd copy a few designs of cupcakes I'd seen on the internet.

Heres the plan (sorry for such a poor copy, my scanner isn't the best in the world):

And here is the best part! What came out of my hard hours, slaving away on these gorgeous cupcakes!

What an effort that was! <3



Just a Little Bit of Fun!

So after showing my boyfriend and his family my newly decorated cupcakes, him, his brother and his sister wanted to have a crack at decorating their own cupcakes! We ended up having a decorating competition but I think we all won it in the end. :)

Demi and Yianni decorating a cupcake together... And our finished products!

My Very First Attempt!

My game plan for my first attempt was to make 3 different cupcakes. I used White Wings Vanilla Cupcakes mix just for its simplicity and I knew it was delicious! I planned to roll fondant onto two cupcakes, one cupcake placed with a fondant star and the next cupcake with colourful fondant polka dots! My third cupcake was going to be decorated with royal icing, and I was going to make Cookie Monster! His eyes were going to be made with fondant, colouring his eyes with a black edible ink pen, and an Oreo to create his yummy cookie effect! Do these look cool or what?!?

Simply Starting the Mission

So here it was: before I started my small business with my wonderful friend Alex, who is my business partner for the project, I needed to experiment and see really how hard it was to decorate cupcakes. After tons of googling and buying a cupcake book written by the owner of 'Planet Cake', it was time to set out a plan and execute it!

Where It All Started

Hi There! So here's a little low-down about myself. I'm 16 years old, live in Australia and have this new obsession over decorating cupcakes and cakes! I've always loved the idea and so now, after being given an assignment to run a small business, I thought this was the perfect time to let this idea blossom into a reality. I'm expected to sell some sort of product each week for 4 weeks, and so it's my plan to bake some real delicious and good looking cupcakes, decorated with a different theme each week! Hopefully it all works out, and I enjoy actually decorating than just the idea. Wish me luck!...