Camera Reel Cake

One of my dear friends called me the other day and wanted a small cake that she and her friends wanted to gift to their photography teacher. It was their last class together and they felt a farewell gift would have been nice.

We brainstormed on photography-related cake designs and this is what we came up with:

Top: Camera Reel Bow. 

Bottom: (Left) Top of Victoria Memorial, (Right) Kolkata High Court 

A 2 layered, chocolate and vanilla cake, sandwiched and covered in dense, rich, dark chocolate gananche. 

I wanted a camera reel effect for the cake, so I created a fondant bow and painted it to look like the edges of a camera reel.

And of course, what good is a camera reel if it doesn't have images on it! And so, I created fondant panels on the side and painted each one with an image that reminded me of Kolkata. 

 Bottom: (Left) Durga Pujo Poster, (Right) Top of Victoria Memorial

Bottom: (Centre) Howrah Bridge

Bottom: (Left) Yellow Taxi, (Right) Hand-pulled cart

Again, this was so much fun for me because this was the first time I painted on cake, and now, my mind is swimming with possibilities and colours and design ideas!

(Someone, anyone, please order a painted cake soon!)

Note: The Peony Project kitchen will be closed from the 11th -16th of September as I'll be out of town. Baking activities will resume from the 17th onwards.

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Dome Cake with Flowers in Hues of Pink

Hi Cake-Lovers,

I love creating striking cakes. And for the longest time I've always felt that one pound cakes never have enough, well, cake in them to create a something cute and different. To me, tiny, flat cakes were done and dusted.

Now all that has changed! I present to you what's going to be my new favourite (yes, yet another favourite) cake to do - The Dome!

The Dome comes in a one pound size. It's cute, petite and has everything you've loved in the bigger cakes!

This particular cake was requested for the birthday girl, by her two friends. The get-together was a small one and so a one pound cake was just perfect for the event.

I decided to have flowers in varying hues of purple and pink, together with a few white ones. All of these stood out beautifully against the rich, dark chocolate ganache.
 

Top View of the Dome Cake with flowers

Dome cake atop my brand new stand - available for rentals soon!

The only cause for complain was the never-ending rain. It made working with the fondant SO difficult. Sticky, goopy fondant is not fun, and definitely not pretty!

But it turns out the Dessert Gods were on my side and in the end, everything turned out fine :)

Not wanting to spoil the beauty of the cake by piping on it, I made a small edible plaque for the birthday message:

'Happy Birthday' Plaque on the cake

I love this cute cake, and I hope you do too! More pictures on our Facebook page.

Happy Rainy Thursday, everyone and be sure to carry an umbrella if you're heading out!

Lotus Cake

Hello Fellow Foodies,

I recently received a cake order, and like so many of my lovely clients, this lady left the cake design entirely up to me.

I really appreciate (and LOVE) it when I'm allowed to exercise my creativity and given artistic license!

Anyway, I decided to do a cake with a Lotus and a lotus bud, both on a leaf.

I started off with making the lotus petals - tinting the fondant with the right colour, cutting out the leaves, giving them some texture, allowing them to dry and then finally shading them.

 Fondant Lotus Petals

Next up, I shaped the bud, added petals to it and shaded it.

 

Fondant Lotus Bud

Finally I created the leaf that the lotus was going to rest on, and then assembled the entire thing on the cake.

 

 And the rest, my dears, was cake history! I'm quite happy with the way this turned out :)

Hope you guys liked it too. As always, you can see more on our Facebook page!