First Time with Gum Paste

My very first attempt in making gum paste was when I made my dad's birthday cake last October. The gum paste recipe seemed okay at first but dried out so fast that it cracked a little bit. Thank God it hadn't fell apart during the party.:D

I apologize for the bad quality of my photos. I only took snapshots using my mobile phone's camera. I still have to save money for a decent camera. Hmmm... It's actually included in my Christmas wish list.:)

Fun with Fondant

Making fondant cakes is a really fun thing to do. I love its smooth look finish. I just love how cakes could look good, smell good, and taste good.  It even seems too nice to slice or too cute to eat. Lol! Fondant is an edible icing that looks quite like a play-doh. It's like a clay where you can be able to cut and mold a lot of figures. Here's the cake I've made for my son's 3rd birthday this year.

A couple of days after my son's birthday, my brother asked me if I could make a birthday cake for his girlfriend. I immediately thought of a nursing-related cake and so I've come up with the cake below.

I always try to make a fondant cake an all-edible dessert, by the way. The only things that may not be eaten are the supports I've inserted either into the cake or into the fondant cake topper like toothpicks or drinking straws. :)

A Cake I Could Make

I love cakes even when I was just a little girl. I love how a single cake can make an occasion extra special. My mom always bake a chocolate cake for family gatherings and still bakes them even when she has already bought a birthday cake for me or for my brother.  I never actually thought that I would become interested in baking or cake decorating. It seemed quite a lot of work. But my mind changed last year after watching an episode of Ace of Cakes. The people there looked like they were having a lot of fun even when they're so busy finishing a huge viking ship cake. I couldn't believe that sculpted cakes were really possible or maybe I just wasn't that updated about cakes these days. That was also my first time to encounter a cake made with fondant. After watching the said episode, I started searching for fondant cakes online and tutorials on how they were made. I've found a lot of fondant cakes online in different shapes and sizes. Wow! They all looked pretty amazing! Thankfully, I've found videos on how to make fondant and decided to make my very first fondant cake on my 24th birthday (the image on top). After making my first fondant covered cake, I got kinda hooked into making more. I asked my closest friends, my family, and my in-laws if I could make them a cake for their birthdays. Of course,   the cakes were free since I just wanted to practice on how to create different designs and learn more from it. Below are photos of the cakes I've made for them. :)

 For my friend, Katrina ;;)

 For my husband's grandmother, Maday ;;)

 For my friend, Jeline ;;)


I realized that once you like what you're doing, it wouldn't be so exhausting after all. ;)