iPhone cake

Yes ma dear iPhone fans, this is the new iCake ;) Apple might be thinking about new gadgets and electric cars, but not the iCake :D

 

Tutorial - 1st FC Cologne cake

Football fans listen up! If your planning on surprising a football fan with a cake, this might be the perfect present.

 

Of course you can adapt the jersey to any football club you like. Look for a suitable template or picture, at home or on the Internet.

A heart for "Dê mais coração" in Lisbon

The model 

This post is exceptionally not about cakes, but about an organization called "Dê mais coração" from Portugal. We spent last weekend in Lisbon and came across this one by chance. The organization was looking for donations, but in a very nice way we thought. Between February 14 and March 14, they had big letters made from wire reading LOVE <3 placed on the "Praca do Rossio" square. For a donation of 3 € one could buy a love lock (which you might know from other cities, especially bridges).

The original

Jaegermeister cake

Hey everyone! My girlfriend had asked me to spend some time on this blog too so I thought I'll give it a go ;-)

A birthday was coming up - my best friend's one. Thinking back to old times and remembering having one or two shots of Jaegermeister now and then, I came across the idea of making a cake in the shape of a Jaegermeister bottle for him.

The idea was the following: sponge cake, cowberries and a white wine cream with a light taste of Jaegermeister, rounded off with white chocolate ganache.

So I got to work...

DIY - Selfmade cupcake wrappers

You can buy cupcake wrappers in a store, yes. But sometimes you dont find the right model or color, then its time for this tutorial.

What you need:

• Cupcake wrapper TEMPLATE
• Cardboard
• Design cutter (HERE or in a crafts store)
• Double-sided adhesive tape

When buying the cardboard, make sure to choose one that is not too thick, otherwise the cutter wont be able to do its job.

Start by cutting out cardboard wrappers using your template. There might also be types of cardboard that have two different sides.

Tutorial - Nutella cake

The perfect cake for a Nutella lover - definitely a Nutella jar cake!

This is a carving cake, so you want to use a firm dough that doesnt crumble easily. If you like chocolate, the Devils Food Cake is just perfect for this matter. Weve used the recipe of Theresa from Crazy Sweets. Thanks again for the tip, it worked just fine!

Whats Craftsy? - Online turorials

Have you ever heard of the platform Craftsy? I came across this American tutorial platform a couple of months ago by chance. You can find a wide variety of online courses such as "sewing", "drawing", "photography" and of course also "cake decorations".

Sugar flowers and stripes

I've found a picture of this cute cake in the magazine "Cake art made easy". Yay, something nice that can be done quickly =)

Candy bar part 2 – lots of sweet treats

Photo: Corinna Schmitz from Cocography

As Ive promised in my last post, heres the part 2 that will show you what weve made, how weve made it and what recipes weve used.

Candybar for a wedding – The planning process

We've made a candy bar for the wedding of our friends Janina & Christoph. Because you have to think about many things for this kind of project, it's best to start with a timetable.

Mini ring cake - Sacher Cake

There have been two things on my mind that I've always wanted to try out =) First, that was my new silicone mini ring cake mold, and second a Sacher cake. And then I thought, hey, why not kill two birds with one stone! I've found a suitable recipe in the book "Mini ring cake: Simply spend on treats" by Andrea Schirmaier-Huber and started right away.

Lillifee cake - part 2

So in part 1 I've showed you how to make the Lillifee figure, now its time for the actual cake. You will need to cakes for this, one in a normal spring form and one in a ring cake (Gugelhupf). They should both have a similar diameter. We've chosen a chocolate sponge cake for this project.

Divide the round cake into two pieces. If you think it's not high enough, you'll have to bake another ;) Normally one well risen cake is enough.

Lillifee cake with a kids surprise - part 1

Little Leona's 4th birthday was coming up, and it had to be a Lillifee cake. You've probably seen a few barbie cakes already with the actual cake being the dress. That's what we wanted to do. We've never done this kind of cake before so we looked up pictures and videos of how people did it. We especially liked the Video of Ann from How To Cook That.

TUTORIAL - Fondant windmill

Today I want to show you how to make a windmill out of fondant. it might look difficult, but its actually quite easy - youll see. With just a few steps you can create beautiful windmills and decorate your cake pops, muffins or cakes.

Start by rolling out a patch of thin fondant and cut out a square. if you have a square cutter, you can use that one. Ive simply used a memo paper as a template which Ive folded twice to get 4 little squares, since I wanted to make little windmills, and traced the lines.

Tutorial – Cake Lace and Ruffles

Finally I got around to try out my cake laces which I had purchased at the Cake World Germany in Hamburg. Claire Bowman had a fantastic selection, so I had a hard time choosing. Eventually, I bought a small and a big mat. The good thing about laces is that once tightly wrapped, you can store them for quite some time and they will still be flexible. For our cake, we used laces that we had prepared some weeks before.

Tutorial - Mini Ruffle Cake

We had quite a bit of cake surplus, and normally we use that to make cake pops, but this time we chose to make some tartlets.

 

Our cake remains were'nt even and had a few cracks here and there, but with tartlets this is easy to cover up.

 

DIY - Make your own cakeboard

Sometimes you need a cake board that you wont find in any shop. So you make one yourself :)

 

What you need:

 

How to make the rectangular cake become a round one - „Donauwelle“

Well, we wanted to bake that classic German Donauwelle and try to make a fancy cake out of it. And it did work, it doesn't always have to be rectangular :)

There are probably hundreds of recipes out there for this delicious cake, but we chose the following:

Recipe

Cake base

350g      Butter

7            eggs

300g      sugar

1 pck     vanilla sugar

500g      flour

1 pck     baking powder

4-5 tbsp cocoa powder
1-2         glasses morello cherries

Start by beating the butter and sugar until creamy, then add the eggs one by one. Now add the vanilla sugar and beat until combined. Finally, sieve in the flour and baking powder and fold in.

For this round version I spread 2/3 of the dough onto two greased 28cm spring forms and mixed the remaining third with 4 tbsp of cocoa powder. Put that aside.

Cake World Germany 2014

A fun and exciting weekend comes to an end, which we spent, as probably many of you too, at the Cake World Germany, Hamburg. This was actually our first cake exhibition – and we loved it.

Wedding cakes

How it all started

Anyone who's made a name for her or himself in the world of cake decorations had once started small. For us, that was about 3 years ago. Christina was about to turn 25 and I knew that she had wished for a book about cake decorations. So I thought to myself, hey, why not make a birthday cake, and why not a 5-tier one!?