Icing on the Cup Cake Course - SCOLA

On 19th February some learners enrolled on the "Icing on the cupcake" course run by SCOLA.  The aim of the course was to have fun with cupcakes, getting away from doing the traditional cupcake swirls, instead making some flowers and character cupcakes.  The learners used plungers, textured rolling pins,colours and fondant to create their masterpieces and we had a laugh or two along the way...

Highland Cow Cake

Irene is sharing with us today this adorable Highland cow birthday cake. The cows were made from sugar paste and she used a garlic press to make the hair!!

Fun & Flowers

A beautiful 50th birthday cake as made by Irene a former SCOLA student, she says;

"Here is the two tier 50th birthday cake I made for my friend. Base is fruit and top is sponge. He collects beavers so I made these two out of sugar paste and had them holding the 50. We had to wear a facinator to the party so I incorporated the feathers into the decoration to match the theme of the party." 

The beavers look too cute...

 Naheed has been perfecting the rose techniques that she made in class and it looks so real or did she pick it from her garden? I really can't tell....

These cakes are an excellent effort and all credit to you both, well done.

Funky Animal Print Handbag & Shoes

Lovely shoe and shoe box birthday cake with matching handbag by Naheed.

The Prince of Whales Cake

Jen Dennel (aka JD) made this adorably cute whale cake she says;

The cake was for my boss's grandson who is called Angus. They are having a christening party in Cornwall hence the beachy theme. The cake is a Dundee fruit cake - I didn't go with the darker heavier fruit cake because not everyone likes it and as the christening isn't until Sunday a sponge wouldn't have been fresh enough by then. I'm pleased with how its turned out and my boss is very pleased with it.

I'm hoping you will be impressed when i tell you that the piping of the name was done freehand and yes i did lift the nozzle well up off the cake - when I'm piping all I hear in my ear is you saying higher higher!!!!! 

Colette says...

Of course I am impressed with the icing - FABULOUS!!!...

Runout (Flooding) Royal Icing Class Projects

Here are the class Run-Out/Flooding Royal Icing Techniques as performed by SCOLA and CALAT students and myself, there are beautiful colour schemes, shell and barrel style piping/overpiping and free-hand writing.  This technique allows you to replicate popular characters on Royal Icing or fondant cakes, without necessarily having the ability to be an artist, this is helpful when you are making children's birthday cakes.  I think that ALL THESE CAKES ARE FABULOUS FOR A FIRST ATTEMPT!  So well done guys and here we go....!!!  Pssst... To take a closer look at the piping styles just click on the individual pictures!

Little House on the Prairie

Take a look at this Little House on The Prairie Themed cake made by Nicki. The cake board has been covered in shredded coconut (dyed with green foodcolouring) and some biscuit crumbs make up the path. The house is made entirely of cake and has a wood effect grain on the fondant icing it is covered with.  Little rolled up pieces of fondant make the log pile and a little fondant water barrel finishes the look.  All the animals are childrens toys.  Cute huh !

More Cakes by Jen Dennel

The lego for the cake didn't take me too long - I quite enjoyed it actually! I cut the bricks out in different sizes and then the circles were made from the end of a piping nozzle. And then i stuck them on!  The cake was a Victoria sponge.

The gecko (Rocky) was for my friend's daughter's lego cake - he was supposed to be a surprise for her on the back of the lego cake, but sadly he was too big! I made him from a fawn coloured fondant that I had created. I then moistened the fondant with water and sprinkled a mixture of linseeds and sesame seeds over the top. I then applied various colours to him - firstly a light yellow, then a fawny brown, then a lighter fawn and then i dotted him all over in black as he's a leopard gecko. I'm pretty impressed with him, but he won;t be eaten...He's just going to sit in her bedroom.