Sunday, December 11, 2011

Little Girl's Pink Birthday Cake

As I promised, here are a few pictures of the cake I made yesterday for my little niece, Anyi, who was turning 2.

It's a Red Velvet Lemon Curd Vanilla Cheesecake. See my Inspiration Wedding Cake #1 for details and pictures of the layers.

For the brief description: It was decorated with light pink fondant for the main color, medium and small fuchsia, yellow and purple fondant circles, and light pink purple bow, a figure "2" for the new milestone and other fondant details mimicking a wrapped gift as well as fondant flowers.

I baked, torted and iced the cake (it was actually 2 cakes that were assembled together) and also made the decorations the day before the birthday let them dry overnight, and put it all together yesterday morning.

The little rolled pieces of paper were for support of the little structures and helped keep the round 3-dimensional shapes. I took the pictures around noon and the birthday was later in the evening so I took the pieces of paper out before we headed out.

Actually here is a video of it before the pictures.








16 comments:

Myne said...

Oh wow, the cake is lovely!

Priscy said...

this is really lovely.

Jemima said...

The cake is beautiful, you are talented, i am not really good at icing cakes at all...

MrsNdem said...

@Myne, thank you!! Tried my best lol!
@Priscy, thanks mama!
@Jemima, thanks for the kind words. I would love to take classes but i will let my cakes pay for it.

A-9ja-Great said...

Those are beautiful and i know they'll taste good too.

Nekky said...

Lovely cake. I found you through AFRICAN BLOGGERS COMMUNITY. Following you now.

MrsNdem said...

@ A-9ja-Great, thank you sir!!! Wanna a bite?

@Nekky, thanks for following, I love you blog, and the ABC is such a great idea!

Uche (@UcheAnne) said...

The cake is beautiful. This and the one in the previous post. Well done.

Alida Sharp said...

How lovely it looks and I can only imagine how divine it tasted!

Chi said...

you bake so good, wow! You should start a bakery, love it

MrsNdem said...

@Uche, thank you so much, it was made with passion lol. About the previous one, I'm still waiting for the opportunity to make a full wedding cake.

@Alida, Awww thanks. I was pleasantly surprised by the taste myself. I love that profile picture!

@Destiny, thank you... The bakery (home bakery it is) is on the works but rather slowly as I do not wanna put all the costs upfront, rather I would like to build the clientele first and let the revenue from the cakes invest in the bakery. Thanks for the compliment!

Rhapsody Phoenix said...

Blessings....
lovely cake, would have loved to see a slice to get a peek inside.

stay blessed
rhapsody
http://twitter.com/rhapsodyphoenix

MrsNdem said...

Rhapsody, now following you!!
The inside is exactly the same as the inside of the wedding inspiration cake #1. Red velvet, vanilla cheesecake, lemon curd with vanilla buttercream icing.
http://sasimalia.blogspot.com/2011/12/inspiration-wedding-cake-1.html

Nenyenwa said...

wow!!!! my baby's girl one year old bday is coming I need baking cake 101 from you. this is too amazing and creative! great job!

MrsNdem said...

@Nenyenwa, LOL, I will more than glad to be of help!!!

Unknown said...

Your cake decorating skills are wonderful! You're much better than you think you are - please start your cake business! And the flavour sounds amazing and so unusual! You've inspired me to work on my fondant decorating skills this year!