Red Panda Cake

One day I was contacted by a lady via my facebook page asking for a cake quote.Turned out she was inquiring for her daughter's 21st birthday and she's in Sydney, so BakerzDad now delivering cake to Sydney, NOT! LOL.

Apparently, she and her entire family was coming to Melbourne for school holiday and to celebrate Christine's 21st birthday. She sent me a file full of instruction how she wanted the cake to look like. It's a square cake covered in light blue fondant etc.

She even sent me a picture of red panda from an etsy shop to copy which I obliged. This red panda figurine was suppose to be a pair for wedding cake topper. The female panda with hand bouquet and veil and the male panda in tuxedo. Due to different celebration, she asked me to make the panda holding present instead a tiffany box that is.

She also requested me to do stars on wire to go behind the panda in blue and white with light grey '21', yes she actually specified that. A name plague should go in front of the with white ribbon around and white doily to go underneath the panda.

The only thing that I deliberately decided myself id the musical notes, on her brief she put a question mark (?) next to musical notes in chocolate. So I took it that it's a suggestion only, at the end I did the musical notes in royal icing and guess what that's was her first comment when she came to pick up the cake. It's not like I don't want to do it in chocolate, but royal icing is more 'safe' and easier to wipe off in case I make a mistake which I did hehehehe.

Out of curiosity I asked her who recommended me when she pick up the cake and she said no one. She went to the internet looking for cake decorator in Melbourne and stumble upon my blog and contacted me from the details I left on this blog. I found it very fascinating.

I hope Christine had an awesome birthday and her cake was part of the awesomeness, I tried my best to do her mother's design a justice and I'm quite happy to how it turned out especially the red panda.

Thanks for checking in, I will do more process shot and tutorial so it's not too boring. But..I still got like 4-5 cakes to blog and I've been lazy lately. Ciao.

Gold and (Not) Black Cake

Hi All,

One day I had a girl contacted me to do a cake for her friend's 21st birthday party. I think it's really sweet how friend can be so thoughtful, and cake above all is one of the most important part of a birthday especially if it's a milestone.

The brief was quite simple, the birthday girl was going to wear black and gold outfit so she wanted me to do black and gold glam cake. To make sure that we're on the same page I did a sketch and she approved it.

Okay, the theme is black and gold, honestly I've never done a cake with black as primary colour. I've done black fondant in the past by mixing black food coloring with dark chocolate fondant and the trick always work like a charm. This time I had to cover 10 inch of a cake which require me to use 1.5 kg of fondant. So I did the trick kneading black food coloring to dark chocolate fondant, 1.5 bottles of black food coloring later I got something that can be pass on as really dark chocolate or if you 're in a poorly lit place you can pass it on as black. At least I tries, tried really hard. Lesson learned, it's going to be pre color black fondant from now on.

The cake design is quite simple, number 21 made out of fondant in gold color as topper, the birthday girl name on a plaque, quilted cake with gold ball accent, some roses and gold ribbon. As it turned out, despite the fact that I did 5 roses for this cake the top surface ended up quite bare. So I whisked my paint brush and did a filigree (sort of) pattern on the cake. I have to admit that I doubt my decision while I was painting the cake, but I think it really made the cake better.

Delivered the cake in the middle of Melbourne's rainy autumn night and hoping that not getting any complaint about the color. The respond from the girl and her friends lifted up my doubt, they loved it. I received this text message the next day ' Hello Bakerz Dad, just wanna say thanks for the yummy, gorgeous cake for Angelyn's 21st bday! Bday girl was really surprised & happy with it! All my friends love it too.' This kind of respond just made my day.

Thanks for checking my blog, will update you with my next project.