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Last week I got asked if I could make two cakes for an orphanage here in Moscow , and of course I said yes. Somehow making cakes for children is so joyful it takes so little to please a child while we adults demands so much more.I wonder where we lost this ability, we are so much into our work,career,lack of time and so on that we somehow lost the small pleasures here in this life. Happily cakes normally brings adults and children a lot of joy. I for sure had a joyful time making this two cakes. The sweet lady who ordered the cake said I could make what ever I wanted so I ended up making two of my favourite characters from a very funny Russian cartoon series. I especially like the romantic ram called Barash, he is hopelessly in love with a lovely pig. The pink hedgehog called Ezhik is also a sweet little one.
Since the cake was only for children I made a Rainbow-vanilla cake and filled it with tutti-fruity cream. It became a really a joyful looking cake inside and outside:)
After a long break with not so much baking. I am back in my kitchen together with my beloved Kenwood machine. So this time my Kenwood and i came up with this cake. I have for a long time had this idea that i wanted to make a turban cake but i couldn't find the proper timing to serve a turban. I mean it is not like a cake you serve with your evening tea. But when I got invited to a birthday party and the birthday boy ( eh, man) wanted a Indian inspired cake i finally could make a turban cake. He hasn't actually seen it yet but i hope he will like it ! I wanted to try something new for this cake so i made a "very cherry cake" :)
It is made of Cherry cake filled with cherry-lemon curd and cherry-lemon cream. Very cherry.
Christmas is almost here and I am starting to feel a bit stressed out all the Christmas shopping and gift wrapping. And if thats not enough the days are really dark right now up here north, and i feel i could need a few more hours of sunlight each day.Thats why I got really happy when a friend of mine had birthday and wanted a sun-cake.He is from south India and is used to a bright sun all year long, so i guess he was hoping that a sun-cake would brighten up his day, I really hope it did :) I got at least very happy out of making it. It is made of Orange cake filled with cinnamon marinaded oranges ,white and dark chocolate cream.
So here is another car cake,this time a Lamborghini. I never thought it would be s o difficult to make cars, i guess the most difficult part is to make them look the same on both side.It all start when you start to carve out the cake, just a few cm wrong cutting and you have to "glue" on some cake again. Especially on this car where it is so much details. And also very time consuming. BUT the great part is that is so much fun , i love to do all this small details , painting it in different colors and see it becoming more and more like a car(well, not always though) This cake is for a boy named Ilja for his 10 years birthday. He is playing a care game called Need for speed and his favorite car is a Lamborghini. I used a car from the game as a model. I really hope he enjoys the car as much as his game ;) The cake is made after Iljas choice, he wanted a Chocolate cake with cashew nuts filled with banana cream i also added a thin layer of light chocolate cream.
This is the first car cake i have made. I was thinking that it cant be so difficult, but so wrong can a person be. And since it was was suppose to be a Bentley as well i was struggling a lot. But i somehow manage to make a car that looked a bit like Bentley. But anyway the lady who i made it for became very happy , so then my cake heart also becomes happy. So this huge Bentley cake is made of 5 kg chocolate cake filled with pineapple mousse and chocolate cream.
This is the first 3D cake i have made, it was not so difficult as i thought it would be. But a lot of work, but enjoyable work. It is not so easy to see it but the cakes are really big, i think both of them together is like 6-7 kg. It is for a boy who becomes 5 years old, and obviously his big hero is Thomas . His mother was very frighten that Thomas alone was to little cake , so late last night i made the wagon called Annie . Luckily i had a cake and cream ready. So The Tank Engine Thomas is made of chocolate cake with cashew nuts filled with raspberry cream.Annie is made of plane chocolate cake filled with raspberry cream.
This pillow cake is made of White mud cake with cherry/orange/ white chocolate cream. It became so nice and fresh in taste, and the bright red cream inside looked really nice.
