PS3 characters

Sackboy and Pikachu hanging on my little planet

 Sackboy and Pikachu

I love when a client ask me to make something that I have no idea what is about. With the help of the Internet, there is nothing you can't find. 

Sackboy is a character from the Little Big Planet game from the PS3. He is quite an adventurous character I think. He has a lot of facial expression and different outfits, which makes it hard to pick which one I should make for the cake. While Pikachu, I am quite familiar with, since I grown up watching the cartoon.

One of the things from the Little Big Planet is the PLANET - I decided to take the adventurous path with my sackboy - to create a planet for this cake. 

The client wanted a green tea cake. I trialled 3 times to get the cake right - for the flavour and the consistence of the cake. Anyway, you may think the decoration is the hardest part of this cake. I think making the cake itself is harder in this one.

Cupcake

Who love cupcake??

Alice in Wonderland - Mad hatters tea party

Giant cupcake

Hello Kitty Cupcake

Hello Kitty Giant Cupcake

A friend who loves cupcake so much has asked me to make her a birthday cake. She loves Hello Kitty, so the theme was Hello Kitty... and the rest of the instruction was "surprise me". 

I put the two ideas together, cupcake + Kitty = giant cupcake. 

I did not buy the cake tin (although it would make life easier), but I used what I've got. A 6" tin and my sphere cake tin. It was a good chance for me to use this expensive Wilton cake tin, which I don't use often (hint: order some ball cakes, like basketball, tennis ball, baseball etc THANK YOU)

For the surprise element, I created a rainbow marble cake, which is a cake made out of 6 different colours. This surprise was well received. I tried very hard to keep this little secret until she cut the cake open!

The surprise element - the rainbow coloured cake (madeira cake with vanilla buttercream and chocolate ganache)