My Little Pony Cake.

So as I have mentioned before I recently had some problems with my health. More specifically and without getting all morbid ;-) I was diagnosed with MS. Even though I luckily have not gotten any major symptoms yet, I have been plagued with some crazy fatigue. I am ALWAYS hopelessly tired. So the thought of taking on a whole kids party was just to much in the heat of summer. A dear friend of mine who just had a little baby suggested that we put two and two together and have one party for our two girls who both were turning 5. Magic.

She provided the location, the garden (it's amazing) and the games. And I brought the cake and desserts. It was perfect. I could focus on what I know how to do and she didn't have to do all that with a newborn plus 5 other kids in the house! Yeah, we both got a big win out of it :-)!!!

Check out her blog where you will find some of the pictures I have here too, as well as plenty more.

Here are some of her pictures and some of mine.  Hope you like them!

Some of the decorations provided by Linda!

Cakepops made of Ballerina cookies, Philadelphia and nutella!

The drinks setup!

The cake! I am personally quite in love with it, if I may say so myself ;-)!

Ellie's favorite MLP, Rainbowdash! As you will also see by her outfit......

 

Details!

The gals! Ellie with her Rainbowdash attire on... of course!

Massacred!!! 

I live the history behind these delights. Spike's jeweled cupcakes and the chocolate raining clouds. Both from separate episodes of MLP.

Some healthy stuff on an otherwise sugar covered table.

Some of the little tags on the food!

Here is my little birthday girl! I love her so much, and there is no way I could ever express it to her.  Maybe one day she will understand. <3

Enjoy!
-J.

Super Hero POW Cake.

So I am BACK! With a POW!!! I am in the cake mode again! After a loooong time out it is nice to back, though it certainly is stressful making cakes. I always make sure I have nothing on the day after completing a cake as I am out cold or slouching on the couch recuperating. I really put my heart and soul into it and then I need a day or so to grow a new one ;-)!

By NO means an original design, but a very fun and satisfying cake to make all the same. It was also a blast to take pictures of, that's for sure! Loving the colors! 

As I only make cakes for friends and family, this one is once again for a friend of mine who's son turned 5! I'm not used to making boy cakes so this was fun not making loads of flowers and pink. It can get repetitive ;-). Though.... I can't say I ever want to mix black marshmallow fondant EVER again! That was ROUGH. I had achy arms for days after :-)!

Anyway, hope you like this one!

Enjoy

-J.

Hogwarts Houses - Harry Potter Cake

So I know it's been a while, like I said in the previous post. And even though I haven't technically made another cake, I realized that I have two cakes that I made a while ago but haven't posted yet. So here is one of them :-)!

My niece was in charge of a huge youth activity for 12-18 year olds at our church. And she decided that it would be awesome to have a cake for them that was appropriate for the theme. 

The theme was Hogwarts (harry potter)!! and what a great activity it was! They divided them all up into the houses Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherine and had them go to different classes and earn house points. So naturally she wanted a cake where the houses were represented.

After A LOT of research into things that would represent the houses I decided to make 4 tiers and each tier would be the house common room. Here is my sketch:

Here are some of the pictures from the "making of" ;-)!

I love my extra fridge!!!

The cakes had two different fillings. Two of the tiers were Vanilla sponge with one layer a Vanilla Bavaroise and the other a Lemon curd Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting. The other two tiers were chocolate sponges filled with Vanilla Whipped cream cheese frosting and Salted Dulce de Leche.

The biggest success of the evening wasn't that everyone thought it was a lovely LOOKING cake, it was the fact that SOOoooo many came up to me to tell me how AMAZING it tasted. Some of them were even surprised as they all thought a cake like that (a fondant cake where so much effort had been made on the looks) never tastes good, but that it was one of the best cakes in general they had ever tasted. now THAT was success. There was over 100 people at the party. And I felt like I got a thumbs up from all of them. A success all in all!

Here are some more detail pictures. I have written underneath each picture which house it represents :-)! I have also added some extra info about each house from the research I did. Most of the research has been represented on the cake!

This is the Hogwarts crest that I hand painted with paste colors and a very fine brush. The Lion is for Gryffindor, the Snake is Slytherine, the Badger is Hufflepuff and the eagle is Ravenclaw.... But who am I kidding.. You guys know all this already ;-)!!!

This is the Gryffindor common room. Their colors are red and gold. The quote on top of the fireplace says "You might belong to Gryffindor where dwell the brave at heart, their daring, nerve and chivalry set Gryffindor apart..." This is a quote from the sorting hat's song. In the book the sorting hat says it to harry potter as he is trying to decide which house to place him in. 

The Gryffindor House is in one of the towers.

Some words that set the Gryffindor's appart are:

• Bravery
• Nerve
• Chivalry
• Courage
• Daring 

 "Wit beyond measure, is a mans greatest treasure" - Rowena Ravenclaw (Founder of the Ravenclaw house). The Ravenclaws are the intellectual ones. It is quite interesting, in my research I found out that just like the sorting hat had issues of where to put Harry, it also had issues about Hermione, but with her it wanted to sort her into Ravenclaw because of her intellect.

The ravenclaw common room is also in a tower.

"Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
If you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,Will always find their kind."

-Sorting Hat 

Some of the words to describe a Ravenclaw are: 

• Intelligence
• Wit
• Wisdom
• Creativity
• Originality
• Individuality
• Acceptance 

 "You might belong in Hufflepuff, where they are just and loyal, those patient Hufflepuffs are true and unafraid of toil" - Sorting hat. The Hufflepuff common room is in the basement, but just high enough for there to be windows to see out over the lawn. It's supposed to be a very earthy place, with wooden details and a warm fire place with a picture of Helga Hufflepuff over it. Helga was the founder of the house.

Some of the words that represent Hufflepuff are:

• Dedication
• Hard Work
• Fair play
• Patience
• Kindness
• Tolerance
• Unafraid of Toil 

 

"Or perhaps in Slytherin, You'll make your real friends, Those cunning folk use any means, To achieve their ends." - Sorting Hat. This was my least favorite one. Mainly because I made a huge bobo on it... I used the wrong tin for the cake and instead of having one 28 cm for the bottom and one 24 cm for the one on top... instead I accidentally made 2x 24 cm!!! I had to shift the whole cake off it's center, making this cake have a DEFINITE front side... But hey, It's still presentable ;-)! 

Some words to describe the Slytherines are:

• Traditionalism
• Resourcefulness
• Cunning
• Ambition
• Leadership qualities 
• Self-Preservation 
• Determination 
• Cleverness 
• Fraternity
• Power

I hope you enjoyed this in my eyes HUGE project! After this I said that I would wait a long time to make a project like this... only issue... the next week I had another cake to make :-)!!! 

Enjoy!

-J

Princess Barbie Cake - Ellie's 4th Birthday

(Smaller text is swedish translation - Svensk text i kursivt)

The cake - Princess or Barbie Cake

 

 So once again this entry is almost a year late. Ellie is now almost 5 and looks so different! Insane how fast the time goes. I finally found the cord for my camera to transfer the pictures so I can finally make an entry about this most wonderful day!

(Ännu en gång så skriver jag detta inlägg nästan ett år sent. Ellie är nästan 5 och ser helt annorlunda ut. Helt galet vad snabbt tiden går! Jag har äntligen hittat min kabel till min systemkamera, så nu kommer lite bilder från denna underbara dag.)

We had only lived in sweden for a few months and this is evident in the emptyness of our house. Ellie's room has NOTHING in it. Mainly because this is her bedroom and she has her playroom downstairs. It still looks so sad though. A little girls room should be filled! That's what we planned on doing with her birthday. There was no expense spare on this birthday(or at least in our eyes)! 

(Vi hade bara bott i sveirge i några månader och det märks på hur tomt vårat hus är. I Ellie's rum finns INGET. Mest för att hennes lekrum är på nedervåningen och att hon bara sover här inne. Men det ser ändå tomt ut. Tanken var dock att ändra på detta med hennes födelsedag. Här sparades inte på slantarna till denna födelsedag (vilket är ovanligt för oss)!)

Her main present was a bike, but anything we felt she needed to fill her days with activity we got. we aren't the type to spoil our kids on an everyday basis. Ellie won't just get something  because we would like to get it for her. We usually wait for birthdays and christmas to spoil. 

(Hennes stora present var en cyckel, men vi köpte även allt annat som kunde fylla hennes dag med aktiviteter. Vi är inte de som skämmer bort våra barn i vardagen. Hon fårn inte allt hon pekar på kan man säga. Vi väntar istället på födelsedagar och jul...)

We want her day to be special. And I think this day was great for her. Starting with present opening in the morning....

(Vi ville att hennes dag skulle vara speciell. Och jag tror att denna dagen blev underbar! Den började med presentöppning på morgonen...)

 So the day before I finished as much as I possibly could. Like the cake. Her very lovely princess-cake. It was a white velvet sponge coloured into Ombre shades of pink. It was filled with vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream and raspberry curd and lemon curd. 

(Dagen innan gjorde jag så mycket jag bara kunda så att jag kunde fokusera på Ellie på hennes födelsedag. Jag gjorde t.ex. hennes princess tårta. Det var en White velvet tårtbotten färgad till rosa i olika toner för att få en ombre effekt. Den var fylld med Swiss Merigue buttercream och halloncurd och citroncurd.)

Anyone who has followed what I do when it comes to cakes knows by know that I tend to do the... stupid... the over the top... the time consuming... and this cake was no different. sitting with tweezers putting clusters of 3 sprinkles on the cake... took approximately 2 hours!!!

(Alla som har följt det jag gör vet vid det här laget att jag har en tendens till att göra det som inte behövs.. bara det tar tid och blir detaljerat typ... Jag vet jag är tokig. Även denna gången gjorde jag det. Att sitta med en pincett och sätta fast små strösselkulor en i taget för att skapa en liten samling av 3 pärlor... ja, det tog mig 2 timmar bara det...)

Here are some pictures of The dessert table I made. On the dessert table I had the princess cake (barbie cake), cakepops with the taste of "Ballerina Kladdkaka" (a brand of cookies in sweden) and chocolate balls (Swedish kiddy nobake classic), Chocolate cupcakes filled with lemon curd and with a white chocolate buttercream, Swedish crumbly sugar cookies (drömmar) and vanilla panacotta with lemoncurd topping. I also had a raspberry lemonade as a beverage.

(Här kommer bilderna på dessertbordet jag gjorde för kalaset. PÅ bordet fanns tårtan(naturligtvis), cakepops med smak av ballerina kladdkaka(de rosa) och chokladbollar(de bruna), chokladcupcakes med lemoncurd fyllning och vitchokladfrosting, hemmagjorda drömmar, vaniljpanacotta med lemoncurdtopping och hallon lemonad som dricka.)   

The dessert table - sorry I don't have better pictures!

The Princess cake/Barbie cake

Princess cakepops, Her Highness Cupcakes, Princess cookies

Princess Cakepops  and Raspberry Lemonade

The coveted goodiebags - folded from wrappingpaper!

My first pompoms! Not all that easy to make! Not at all!!

I use "pxlr" to edit my photos, and I used the same program to create the little tags on everything. The names on the goodiebags, and the little tags by each dessert. picked a pink polkadot background that I saved from the internet as a picture. I then edited it with the free shapes and images within the pxlr program. Pxlr is free online. Just do a search in google and I use the express version.

(Jag använder "pxlr" att redigera mina bilder, jag anväänder även det programmet för att göra alla små brickorna du ser på allt. Även namnen på godispåsarna. Jag valde en vit och rosa prickig bakgrund som jag sparade som bild. Sedan redigerade jag den bilden med alla gratis bilder och former som finns i pxlr programmet. Pxlr är gratis på internet, du behövr bara söka i google. Jag använder "express" versionen.)

Her Highness in all her glory :-)!

This was officially the Pink Fluff Party :-D!!!!

Me and my pink fluffprincess ;-)

Cut opened to give the surprise ombre effect! It gave the awaited "ooo" effect ;-)

Enjoy.

-J