Tuesday 11 March 2014

Custard and Raspberry pies



These are custard and raspberry pies made with rough puff pastry. The pastry squares were cooked first, and then filled a coating of raspberry jam, custard and raspberries, then cooked again until the custard had just set. These were really nice and the custard, jam and raspberries complemented each other really well. I will definitely be making these again, I loved them!

Olaf cake


This is the birthday cake which I made for my friend's 18th birthday. She loves Disney and the film "Frozen", so when I found the youtuber "cakesbychoppa" and his video of how to decorate a cake to look like Olaf, I thought it was perfect! This is a chocolate cake filled and crumb-coated with milk chocolate ganache. I then shaped the cake following a template, then covered it with fondant icing. I moulded the carrot, eyebrows, eyes and tooth and coloured them with food colouring. I also coloured the mouth with watered down food colouring. Once I had placed everything together, I stuck liquorice straps into the top of the cake to make his hair. My friend really liked this cake which I was so happy about, and I was really pleased with it too! And because I had to shape this cake, I got to taste the remaining bits of cake and ganache, and I was really pleased with it!