Everything started at 5 p.m or so yesterday...
My cousin's from Ipoh were here (Staying at our house!) in KL to celebrate their 2nd and 4th birthday!
You could say that I was pretty bored that afternoon because I completed the 2nd tier of my wedding cake and couldent start on the 3rd tier yet because I didnt have any fondant to cover it with!
I decided to make 1 mini cake each for my cousin's birthday party that will be held in Sakura restaurant the next evening (Today.).
Since they liked dogs I decided to make them a doggy birthday cake!
I was REALLY new at making dogs because I have never NEVER EVER made a single fondant/gumpaste dog before!
I thought to my self...
Hmm... It wouldent be TOO bad... I mean I can making teddies, elephants, rabbits... Why not dogs?!
So as usual I drew my cake plan out mentally...
(I only draw my cake plan out physically if it is complicated one!)
So this one was just going to be...
A nice simple doggy cake!
Nothing more nothing less...
Somethign that I could complete in a days time!
Mental plan:
Nigel: Blue cake, blue dog, blue kennal...
Katrina: Pink cake, pink dog, pink kennal...
Simple enough!
Lets start workin'!
Everything was going according to plan my timing and speed until...
I started with the legs!
UGH!
The first doggy I made was the pink doggy for Katrina and I wanted it laying down on the ground and playing with a ball...
I needed to crack my head finding out how to make the doggy look as if it was holding the ball with it's paws not as though it is in walking position but holding the ball...
I do a mentally big HUGE dinosuar RAWWWWRRRRR!
Ok found a silution to that and now for the hind legs...
That I not only needed to crack my head but ALSO my brains!!
Now I not only have to do the leg which is rather simple now...
I have to make that hind leg like a drumstick mixed with a paw...
This is one COMPLICATING dog!
After lots of cutting, bending and shaping the fondant I finally got it!
Whew!
I rolled out some brown gumpaste (It is the strongest 'paste' that I can use in my house becasue pastilage actually MELTS in my house! Can you believe that?! But well I am not sure what brand you use but the one I got from my Squire's kitchen diploma course does!!) to make the sides of the dog kennal.
Some blue for Nigel's roof and pink for Katrina's...
I made 2 pink and 2 blue dog food and water bowls after that...
The dog food was little round brown bolls inside the doggy bowl and the water was glucose!
After our dinner I started my baking...
The next morning= Carving the cake+crumb coating+Fondant-ing!
Before going to Sakura for the dinner birthday party we had to go for another birthday party at Melia hotel...
It was a cowboy themed party!
Yee-haw!!
It was one of my Dad's Rotary friend's son's 1st (I know there are LOTS of 's LOL!) birthday...
If I tell you more about this party youwill get too bored so it is not worth mentioning...
I liked the part where me got free cow boy hats, guns and bandanas!
Dressing up me and my brothers was fun!
Ok Sakura time!
It was a rather typical family gathering...
Nothing THAT interesting but meeting up with family was fun :)
I need to get on with today's post!
~K
No comments:
Post a Comment