Cake's Progress

I've always liked to do things by myself... so my kids birthday cakes is a most!... These pictures are a couple of years old, when I didn't knew other than regular icing... 

Until a friend of mine told me how she does her fondant and voilà! ... A bag of mini marshmallows, a bag of confectioners or powdered sugar and food coloring was all I needed!

As you can see the cakes took a big improvement!... It's not that professional I know (the things you see on Pinterest today Wow!)...  Since I discover this it was like I had a new toy in my hands... it is like you were playing with clay or play-doh and whatever is in you mind you can dare to do it! ... Of course not always will came out as you see it in your head (frown)... But this came out and we all love it!, it was inspired on one of her pj's!!!

Another of the discoveries was the mixing of colors... My older son was at the time crazy about the planets... so I try to do something very simple but that resemble one... Here I mix (or knead) a few strips together, each with a different color and even add a spot there to look like Jupiter!... maybe it didn't look like it, but the important thing is that he loove it!!!  

And what other cake shape can you do when Valentine's Day is here... This one was a tricky one too... maybe all the experts out there must think "this amateur doesn't know what she's doing!"... I'm sorry!!!... I'm very empiric... I like to embark on thing with what I have in my head and things just come out... I don't always read or investigate before the doings... sometime I should... But practice takes you there... no?

So when Easter came I could but imagine the new design that was waiting to came out of the fondant dough... And here the shape was tricky, of course I try to shape the cake like an egg and the fondant cracked in the curves and edges... so I thought and thought and thought a little bit more and try to repair it (repair the fondant was useless)... so I imagine the eggs in a coup with the chicken with all that hay and I said "That's it... HAY!"... so I cover all the surrounding with hay and did all these little eggs and decorated them and put them as if the bunny hide them!... I think it's been the funniest cake!

On this other day I wasn't thinking in doing "a cake" the most I was thinking was doing a simple cake... When my littlest one said "Mom, where is my cake?... with strawberry and flowers"... And I was like "Whaaat???... strawberries, flowers on a cake???"... So after some thinking we came up with a strawberry shaped cake with some little flowers on it... I put a candle on each flower... So at least each of my kids had a pretty-custom-birthday cake this year...

I still have A LOT to learn and create... so practice, practice and more practice will come and will be shared. :)

... There's one more to share... And of course there are details ... I don't have a good final picture were I used a pink'ruffle magic wand at a side covering some little details :P ... But for my daughter was the prettiest cake and that is what made my day :)