Spiderman Venom Cake

My son this year requested a spiderman cake for his birthday. I did some brainstorming I wanted to do something a little different than a basic spiderman cake. I know he likes all the comic book heroes and villians (we share a comic book nerd side) so decided to make a Venom cake. I figured Carnage was a bit gruesome for a 7 year old birthday party...maybe next year! It was so much fun to make! So here is Ben's Venom cake...

Hello Kitty Cake

For my mum's birthday, I wasn't quite sure what kind of theme to make her birthday cake. I wanted to make it really fun and something she would love. My mum used to be a nurse but took a brief break to open a shop that sold Hello Kitty before it got to be really big and wasn't just sold at Sanrio stores anymore. I have loved Hello Kitty ever since I was 4 and we first went on a vacation to Florida. Imagine a fat kid in a candy store for the first time....I was a hyper child anyway so I have no idea how my parents tolerated me. Hello Kitty been a mutual love of ours for years since so I decided that was the cake to make my mum. Instead of using the trademark red that Hello Kitty is always seen in I decided to make her a little more summery as my mum's Birthday is in July. I decided to use yellow, white and pink fondant. Admittedly, as cute as Hello Kitty is...her head isn't the easiest shape to make...I am really happy with how she turned out though.

Jem and the Holograms Cake

So sorry it's been a while since I updated this...too long in fact. Life kind of got in the way however, the cakes were still being made. My best friend requested a while ago that instead of buying her a birthday present could I make her a cake. I agreed forgetting completely that her main loves in life aren't so simple to emulate in cake. She decided she wanted a cake of her favourite T.V. show from when she was a kid. I got to go very girlie with this cake as her favourite show is non other than Jem and the Holograms. Based on the fact that it is now 2012 and not 1985 I kind of made them how they would be now if they decided to reform (in the animated world)...chubby with not as big hair....which we both had a good laugh at. It was a lot of fun to make and I resisted the urge to completely paint their faces with sparkly food colouring. I did love the fact that I got to make them standing on top of a bright pink keytar...oh the joys of girlie cakes!

How To Get To Sesame Street

Today is my friend's son's birthday so he'll be a mighty two years old. He is one of the most adorable little boys I have ever seen. On saturday he had a Sesame Street themed birthday which was super cute. As me and my monster were leaving we told Morgan that we had just one more surprise for him on his birthday.

The surprise is this elmo cake...







This cake was just so much fun to make. I have to admit it was hard to part with it! It was a really hard decision whether to make an elmo cake or a cookie monster cake...maybe I'll do cookie monster for me!

Blow Out The Candles

On Sunday it was my dad's birthday. So as I was still basking in the glow of my son's cake turning out ok I decided to make my dad a cake.
A few years ago (more than my dad would like to remember) my mum got my dad a cake made which featured him whizzing down a road in his yellow convertible. We all loved the cake and so did my dad. Since we, as adults, don't normally go all out on our cakes I thought I'd make him one to celebrate.

I wanted something which captured my dad. So I ended up with him sleeping in an airchair complete with his evening bagel, cup of tea, iphone...and even some wine gums for good measure! I wanted to find a way to put his age on the cake without putting it in a glaring way....so in comes the newspaper. I even added a little tribute to the best granda ever from my son Ben and my nephew Caleb.

Ben 10 Cake

Just to show the cake that started it all and a couple of the details. Here is my son's Ben 10 birthday cake.
Since my son turned 6 and is luckily called Ben I changed the logo to say Ben 6
I picked a couple of his favourite characters called Heatblast and Echo Echo (He's actually my favourite) to make and put on the cake with a miniture Ben 10.

Ben 10 complete with mini omnitrix watch



Echo Echo in the works



The Cake...TA DA!

Let Them Eat Cake!

So here I am taking a new little road in my life. First it was the cards which started many years ago...then the art...and the paper poppies which I seem to now be synonomus with. So from Lucky 7 Designs has sprouted Lucky 7 Cakes (see what I did there with the name...gold star coming my way!)

So how did my new path begin?...well let me tell you...

My little monster, Ben's birthday was coming up and he is really into (and I mean like all encompassing awe) this superhero called Ben 10. It's probably more the fact that the little boy is called Ben but he loves it. The problem is that Ben 10 hasn't really taken off as much here in Canada as it has in the UK and therefore finding Ben 10 stuff is a bit of a problem. So as you can imagine when my monster looked at me with his big blue eyes and asked for a Ben 10 cake my thought was 'oh crap'.

Last year we forked out the $40 for the store bought blue, purple and grey batman cake...all to get the toy on top...which broke 2 hours later. This year I was determined not to do this and I would, come hell or high water,make this cake.

We've all watched the shows...Cake Boss, Ace of Cakes, Cake Walk etc etc and marvelled at the masterful creations made out of fondant and modelling chocolate. We've all sat and thought that looks easy and we could totally do that....yeah...it's really not that easy. After my first cake is never to be spoken of again I eventually ended up with my son's birthday cake.

So...this is the cake...