Grumpy cat cake pops
I’m a bit clueless, but when my teenager saw this, he said, “Hey, that’s the grumpy cat!”
“The Grumpy Cat?” I asked. I just followed a pix that was sent to me, of A grumpy cat.
“Yes, it’s all over Instagram,” he said, rolling his eyes at my lack of education.
I was struggling with it, so was fairly happy he recognised it. Making animals are pretty easy, making animals with expressions are super tough. How do you make a face grumpy? It’s harder than one would initially think, and not as easy as just putting a mouth with sides turned down. A state of ‘grumpy’ is reflected not only in a mouth, but in the shape of the eyes, the frown, the mouth and the contours of the face.
Watercolour cake pops
I’ve been admiring all those gorgeous watercolour buttercream cakes that I see, and finally got a chance to try my hand at handpainting my own watercolour cake pops. I love how they turned out! They key to the watercolour effect is diluting the edible paints, till they get that watery, almost washed out look, and then blending in the paints just at the edges.
Thomas the train cake
I have a problem with cakes. I can’t stop fiddling with them. Until it is picked up, I’ll be ironing out the flaws, adding more flowers, moving the stones, etc etc etc. And then when they are picked up, I feel like someone took my precious away and there is a gap in my life.
Cakes can be terribly expensive because the materials are not cheap (which you will know if you have tried to make a fondant cake yourself and added up the cost) and some decorations or shaping and moulding are very time consuming. Fondant figurines, are in my opinion, are not necessary if you are on a budget. Complex ones take hours to make, and if you input the minimum wage per hour, plus materials, you are looking at a very expensive topper that won’t be eaten anyway.
So I often recommend placing a toy. You even get to play with it after!
Nautical anchor cake pops
I buy stuff all the time, just because I think they may come in handy. In this case, I bought these anchor moulds just because they happened to be the right size for a cake pop. I had a play with them with some leftover chocolate one day, and this is what emerged.
Thor cake pops
Thor cake pops
With Iron Man, and now Thor, you know what’s next right? I”m building my own Avengers team.
This is the first time I didn’t want a smooth top. After dunking in the chocolate coating, I held the helmet upside down so it would create that tippy point.