Modeling Chocolate

Playing around with a new medium for making flowers and figures...modeling chocolate!  It was super easy to make and fun to use... here is my very first modeling chocolate rose, made with white chocolate :) I think I have too many petals on it, but I am happy with my first try.  Recipes have been added to the recipe section at the bottom of the first blog page.

Lavender and Pink Castle Cake

This is a 12-inch round, strawberry flavored cake.  It is frosted in buttercream icing (refrigerated until set then pressed with a brick impression mat all the way around) with a fondant door and blocks around the top edge.  The towers are made from light weight plastic tubing about 2 inches wide, covered in mmf adhered onto the plastic with candy-glue made from mmf and water heated to melting in the microwave.  I rolled the mmf covered tubes on my brick impression mat (LOVE that thing!!) to make it look like brick.  The spires are made of sugar cones and were adhered to the towers with melted candy (candy-melts or almond bark work great).  They were covered in overlapping mmf dots glued on with the candy-glue after attaching them to the tower.  Fondant windows, leaves and flowers were added to each tower.  The towers on top of the cake each have 4 dowels directly under the cylinder to support it's weight, and one tall dowel in the center to keep it steady.  The towers on the sides of the cake were tricker b/c I ran out of room on the cake board (it is a 16 inch cake board... the largest I could find at AC Moore, and just barely big enough for this cake).  There are 4 dowels set into the cake board just along the inside edges of the towers to hold them steady and 1 tall dowel in the center to keep it straight.  Cakeboss.com (not the tv show) has a wonderful tutorial on how to make a castle cake similar to this one.

Princess cake and cupcakes

This is a 6" round with 3 towers and a hand-sculpted mmf princess on top.  The towers are made from plastic tubes wrapped in mmf and pressed with a brick impression mat.  The pointed tops of the towers are made from card-stock paper cut, rolled and stapled into that shape, then covered with mmf.  The cupcakes are frosted in swirled butter cream icing and decorated with handmade mmf crowns, flowers, stars and butterflies. 

Brobee (Yo Gabba Gabba) Cake

This is so bright and fun!  This cake is a 6" tier on an 8" tier.  It is frosted in buttercream, covered in lime green mmf and decorated with lime green, dark green and bright red fondant dots.  I have never used dots that were the same color as the fondant on the cake before... but the effect is pretty cool... barely there.  The border is red buttercream dots made with Wilton tip #12, and a few black fondant balls for contrast along the bottom.  Brobee is hand-sculpted from mmf with a few wires holding the arms in place.