P-P-P-Poker cake P-P-Poker cake

Another year, another birthday therefore another birthday cake! This year's party was James Bond cocktail themed and obviously the cake needed to match. After weeks of research I settled on a poker table design. I immediately ran into difficulty as my cake tins were far too small! So a quick trip to Hobbycraft, and some advice from a random old lady, I bought what felt like the biggest tin ever. 

We a little help from some friends, 6 eggs and some carving later we set to decorating and here is the finished result.

With a little help from Sophisticakes

So a while ago now I went to my friends bakery (her house) to help her make some cake ideas and I thought I would include this in my blog. I learnt so much and I think we really helped each other out. This was also my first time using cake dummies and this allowed us to make three different cake designs in three days. I would never be able to do this with cake, especially on my own!

 We iced the cake board in fondant and added the stone texture with a texture sheet and then dusted it with a little silver lustre. As we had a limited amount of time we used paper and card to create the turrets and columns. If we had more time we would have used sugar paste and moulded it over a kitchen roll tube. 

We used wired and blossom flowers to create a over grown flower look. The hedges were just green fondant that was textured with star tool.  

This was my first bear model, a little chubby but still adorable. 

The next cake was a little more sophisticated. This classic and simple design has a real Victorian feel to it. 

We saw this cake in Cake International magazine and decided to give it a go. It was relatively simple, it just used up a lot on fondant! We used fondant mixed with sugar paste to make sure it would harden enough to sustain the design, but still cut-able. 

The final cake was more challenging and my favourite cake yet. After looking through many cake magazines we saw this birdcage cake and although it looked quite challenging we thought we would give it a go. 

 This is the rose spray we made for the bird cage cake. These flowers took a few days to make, which is why we made this cake last. It was also my first time at making roses and the largest spray I have made (with help of course!)

We set the lustre on the roses and leaves with steam, which I think makes the colours look more natural and also makes them last a lot longer. 

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