Bas relief geisha tutorial

This tutorial shows how to make a bas-relief geisha. The background is handpainted on fondant http://cakefairytales.blogspot.com/search/label/Handpainted%20fondant

First step is to figure out what size the geisha should have to fit on top of the handpainted fondant. I took a piece of paper and cut it up to fit the size of the painting.

Take a piece of baking-paper/see-though-paper and apply on top of your drawing. Place a tiny bit of fondant, and shape it to fit your drawing. Make it about 0,7 cm thick.

Use your pencil-tool to make eyes and cheekbones.

Now, make the body, starting with the neck.

Now the fun part begins:) Roll fondant (about 1-2 mm thick) and place it over the face and body. The skin-coloured fondant should cover both head and neck to make the best result.

Make arms and hair. Remember that the arm facing the painting/ background should be flat and smaller than anatomical correct arms.

Now my favorite part: handpainting the figurine:)

Lift your geisha with a spatula, add a little water (as glue) on the back, and place it on your background/ painting. Voila - you're done:)

Handpainting

The top of my cake isn't completely round, so to make a template, I used baking paper and a permanent marker to make my template.

Roll out a 0,5-0,7 cm thick white fondant. I use Wiltons fondant mixed with gumtex.
Let it dry for minimum 5-6 hours.





First step is to make a sketch to see if the thougt position is correct. The bird is painted outside the drawing, because I thougt of making this later.












I'm not a painter, but this is how I think the end result compliments bas-relief technique the best. The foreground should be painted in dark colors. The further away things are (such as the mountains) the lighter/ brighter they are painted - this is achived by shifting the color:alcohol ratio.

3D plane and stary sky cupcakes

3D aeroplane cake:) I had so much fun making this cake!!!


Day 1: I cut the plane-"body" from a cake dummy. I chose to make it from cake dummy instead of cake, because i wantet to place it to look like the plane is flowing/ flying.
Day 2: made the wings from cake boards. Covered it with sugarpaste (used buttercream as glue). Made the figures - I just LOVE anime figures, all made by hand without moulds.





The cake was surrounded by 34 of these stary sky cupcakes. I used a 2 cm diameter star cookie cutter and cake-wire. I made the stars 2 days prior to assembling them on the cupcakes, to make it dry enough.

I used a toothpick and thin silver-cake board to make the plane's propeller, and a small ball of red sugarpaste to hide the toothpick - it did have another bonus; the children could make the propeller turn around.






The cake was surrounded by 34 stary sky cupcakes.

Tangled cupcake

My latest cupcake I made for a Danish cupcake competition, I hope very much to win, but there is a LOT of other very beautifully made cupcakes.

My inspiration was my daughters favorite movie "Tangled" - or as she would say it: "let's see MaxImuss" - she is Maximus' biggest fan!

One of her friends is coming over to our house tomorrow, and I'm excited to see their faces when I serve Tangled-cupcakes.

It took me 2 days to make this cupcake;

Day 1: Face and torso. No mould used - it's all done by hand. I used a thick cake-wire as a "spine" and placed the torso and head to dry on a cake dummy.

Day 2: Made the rest of the figure and Pascal. Handpainted the two figures. I made the hair in more than 1 piece, so that it wouldn't get to heavy.

Recipe Modelling Chocolate

Modelling chokolate it great to coat RKT in 3D figures.

I used modelling chocolate to make the head on this figure that mainly consists of RKT.

You can use glucose or even better isoglucose = corn syrup. The difference is the modelling chocolates elastity.

For all recipes:

Melt the chocolate according to chocolate melting guides. Add the corn syrup until the modelling chocolate is homogeneous. Let it rest in the fridge for 24 hours. When it is ready to use you have to knead it until it is soft.

Candy melts:

397 g candy melts

120 g corn syrup

Dark chocolate:

7 ounces/ 200 g dark chocolate

60 ml corn syrup

Milk chocolate:

7 ounces/ 200 g. milk chocolate

3 tablespoons corn syrup

White Chocolate

7 ounces/ 200 g white chocolate

2 tablespoons corn syrup

Teapot 3D cake

This is an easy 3D cake. It serves about 8-10 persons.








The day before the cake is assembles you have to make the accessories; let them dry for about 24 hours. Use the ball-cake pan to measure the size.







I used chocolate buttercream to put around and then coated with white fondant.

Assemble the cake and paint with dust-colour mixed with alcohol.

I chose to paint orchids on my teapot - my absolute favourite flower!

Wedding Cake with roses

Wedding cake I made for my dear friend Mai's surprise wedding.

Chocolate cake with raspberry and white chocolate mousse.