5 Jul 2009

Sandcastle Cake for School Fayre

YAY!!!.....my first cake since I had the Op on my wrist......seems like it's been forever!
Anyhow, I have made this for Will's "School Fayre", I had intended to make a small one but I got a little carried away,
it's not huge but bigger than I thought it would be!
The fondant driftwood was soooo inspired by "Betty's Sugar Dreams" cake, obviously nowhere near as good as hers and here is a link to her masterpiece for those very few who haven't seen it www.flickr.com/photos/bettyssugardreams/3594239893/
Bottom tier (9") : Vanilla sponge with Elderflower buttercream.
Middle (6") : Rich Chocolate sponge with dark chocolate buttercream.
Top tier (4"): Vanilla Maderia Sponge with chocolate buttercream.
All covered in a sand coloured fondant
and decorated with fondant shells, starfish, pebbles, pearls, flowers and driftwood with the schools name pressed in,
the sand is soft brown sugar. I hope they like it!
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12 comments:

  1. Anonymous05 July, 2009 20:58

    I won it!!!!

    i am soooooo happy thank u soooo much!!!

    i really dont want to cut it but my 5 children and i will enjoy when i become brave enough...thanks again

    Tammy!xx

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  2. Anonymous05 July, 2009 21:09

    Would you like to hold a stall at our funday selling/promoting your own cakeys!?

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  3. Unknown05 July, 2009 21:43

    Tammy.."Congrats!!"
    Thank you for letting me know you won it, I couldn't stay til the end to find that out! so please cut the cake and enjoy it and if you see me at the school say hi!
    I put a card with the cake stating that the bottom & middle cakes have plastic cake dowells through them to support the above cakes....just a reminder! :o)
    Enjoy!!!
    Nicky x

    Ooh a stall!..........could you give me more details (where, when etc....)
    Thank you!

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  4. LadybugLuggage06 July, 2009 01:16

    Great to have you back, fabulous job!!!

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  5. Beverly Anne06 July, 2009 17:37

    So glad you are back!!!! I've so missed your posts. What a beautiful job you did on this cake; you haven't lost your touch.

    Would you please share where you got the impression mat/roller you used in your cupcake pic at the very top of your blog? I have done many searches and can't seem to find anything remotely like it. Thanks

    Bev

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  6. Unknown06 July, 2009 17:58

    Thank you both so much!
    Bev...the impression mat I used was in a pack of about 6 I think from http://www.design-a-cake.co.uk/
    type in design a cake texture mats and it is Nature 2 pack

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  7. James ~n~ Amber06 July, 2009 18:25

    This is just so great !!! I'm glad you're back in action !

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  8. blah07 July, 2009 13:48

    Amazing! And after a wrist operation too O_O

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  9. Simply Cakes07 July, 2009 21:21

    Wow welcome back! What a return piece. I love it.

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  10. CupCake31 July, 2009 07:37

    So glad to see you're back, you do such beautiful work.

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  11. Unknown31 July, 2009 09:24

    oh thank you so much!!!

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  12. choyu Brandon14 January, 2010 09:06

    Ah-maze-ing! Great work and the sign puts it over the top!

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