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.

Baby Shower Cake

My friends decided to throw out other friend a baby shower. So as a contribution I offered to make a baby shower cake. This will be Christina's first baby and she's having a girl so I wanted to make a somewhat girlie cake but one that still made Christina the centre of attention...for now. I made a little mini Christina perched on the edge of a cake surrounded with some flowers in some very girlie colours. It turned out to be a hit and Christina loved her cake.

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!

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.

I LOVE Christmas and last year started kind of a little tradition whereby me and my little monster go to stay at my Parent's house on Christmas Eve. This started because it's just me and my son for Christmas in our house and it's just my parents in their house. My parents are great and have been a big help to me and my son. They're constantly pushing and supporting both of us. So last year I thought it would be great to have them there for Christmas morning when Santa's been. Oh does my son love it! It's so much more exciting too.

Last year I did Christmas dinner at my house so this year my mum and dad decided to do it. I volunteered for dessert. I have to admit I overwhelmed myself with options and ended up totally stumped on what to do. Then I had an idea as I finished the Nativity cake...I would make inidividual cakes. So on Christmas Eve I quickly russled up 4 individual cakes with a penguin theme. They went down a treat and my monster got a real kick out of all the different penguin scenes.

Here's our little wintery cakes....

Christmas Time

What better way to celebrate Christmas than with some cake!
I was asked to make a nativity cake showing Jesus' birth. I decided that instead of doing the stable etc I would do some of the figures who were involved in what happened that night. So most importantly we have Jesus, Mary and Joesph. Then I added the Angel who foretold the birth to the shepherds )which are symbolised with a sheep). I figured if I did the shepherds there would do zero room on the cake! I also put on the three wise men each bearing their gift. Lastly I put the star which the wise men followed that shone over the stable.
I wanted to find a way to show the star where it was meant to be...hello springy wire. I actually think it finished off the cake nicely as I have all the figures looking up at the star...and also the people eating the cake!

So here's my Nativity cake...

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...