Baking Project

Decorating cakes with shoes are nothing new.. I’ve seen the shoe cutters being sold for a few years now.  But somehow I don’t really the idea of putting shoe on your cake, maybe it’s the way I was brought up.  In real life, shoes should be kept away from food..  Nevertheless, I decided to put away those thoughts and bought myself a shoe cutter from Jem Cutters.   And here are the results :

What do you think ? The green one was not really dried and looks a bit distorted .   Let me show you how the cutter and mold looks like.  There are a few brands in the market, and each look different. The Jem Cutters I’ve used is this one.

It comes in several parts – the heel mold, sole cutter and the upper shoe parts.  And two small foams are also given for support.   Making the ladies shoe is not that difficult actually. Just cut and join the parts together.

The only drawback is you only have two of those small styrofoam for support.  So you have to wait for one shoe to dry before proceeding to make the other.  A slow process if you are planning to make more than one pair.  You could try to use cotton balls or other suitable things to hold the gumpaste parts while they are drying.  My recommendation is to make these shoes a few days ahead and not in our rainy days, you know the gumpaste might take a while to dry.   All in all,  I had a fun day making these ladies shoes and probably will add them as accessories to my cakes in the future.  Bye now .

I am so tired and at the same time very, very happy today.. completed my first class on the fondant handbag cake.   The results from the students were so amazing :

More pictures and the making of the handbag cakes can be found in my Facebook.  Click here.

For those interested to join, I will be having the same class once a month, the schedule for December will be up soon.  In the meantime, enjoy the pictures.  Happy working .

Thank you Cik Roslyeen for the order.

Ok, I know you will have a good laugh looking at my Ben 10 cake.  ‘He’ is looking like a ’she’  trying to preach something, and not looking scary at all..  I don’t know why, my Ben 10 always ends up looking like a girl. And this chick is super cute coz I cheated, used a mould for the face instead of free-hand.

Anyway,  I do hope Ben 10 (yg bersopan-santun ni) looks like he’s bursting out of the cake. Here’s a quick tutorial on how I did it.  First, attach the body to the center of the cake.

Then simply make a few triangles, the same colour as the cake.  Take note that for the triangles to stand, you need to mix the fondant with some gumpaste, or add some gum to your fondant to make it slightly harder.

Brush the bottom of the triangle with some water, and attach arround the figurine.

Then try to smooth the joints so it is not too noticeable.

That’s it, simple, really. If you have any other methods to create this ‘bursting-out-of-the-cake’ effect, please do share with us.  Cheers.