Month: October 2014

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Batman Themed Minion Cake!

This super fun Batman themed Minion cake was a last minute request but we couldn’t resist! We think this mischievous little cake is perfect for a birthdays so close to the festivities of Halloween from it’s sleek black costume to the Batman symbol embossed cake board! 

Batman Minion Cake by Juniper Cakery

Minion cakes are insanely popular and they’re always fun to make especially when people request an extra twist like crazy costumes or quirky flavours! They can be transformed into almost anything which makes them perfect for most occasions; imagine a minion cake disguised as a pumpkin for a Halloween party centre piece, or even as a Christmas tree? What about dressed up as the recipients favourite singer or movie character? Needless to say, we love making them!

The cake itself was a freshly whipped up classic Victoria sponge featuring Madagascan vanilla buttercream and home made strawberry preserve. We filled, stacked, carved and crumb coated the shape before chilling it and covering it with custom coloured yellow fondant. The super-minion really began to look the part when we’d finished the iconic mask, ears and all!

Batman themed Minion Cake by Juniper Cakery

One of our favourite features was the Batman embossed cake board which we covered with grey fondant / sugar paste, embossed with a small Batman cookie cutter and then dusted with edible silver lustre dust for a cool metallic sheen!

Minion in Batman Costume Cake by Juniper Cakery

For the fun name plaque we were inspired by the Batman light signal from the films and comics! We used tylo reinforced fondant to create the bright yellow and grey fondant circles to emboss and hand paint onto before attaching to the side of the cheeky Minion character! 

 

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Woodland Inspired Wedding Cake!

Woodland and nature inspired cakes are one of our favourite styles of wedding cakes to design and make. We love so many aspects of wilderness from overgrown gardens to awe-inspiring mountain landscapes that have to admit quite the pangs of excitement when a happy couple share their nature influenced cake ideas with us! This woodland themed three tiered cake is no exception of course. 

Woodland inspired wedding cake by Juniper Cakery

This tall cake features a deep middle Cherry Bakewell flavoured (almond cake with almond oil buttercream and black cherry preserve) tier. The cake is flourished with sugar bramble berries, hellebore flowers, damson blossoms, ruffled scabiosa flowers, various fantasy berries, golden feathers, edible moss, painted bugs, various mushrooms and white chocolate bracket fungus!

Woodland themed wedding cake by Juniper Cakery

One of our favourite elements of this cake are the sugar bramble (or blackberry) berries! They’re incredibly time consuming, but done well and with a healthy dose of patience they can look so much like the real fruits themselves. Plus we adore the quirkiness of them. 

Lovely woodland wedding cake by Juniper Cakery

The couple wanted some elements of gold included in their cake so we used gold pearl stamens (these are such a favourite in the studio for adding a touch of glamour to floral sprays that we’ll be stocking these soon), gold lustred damson blossoms, champagne glimmer dusted bracket fungus, golden feathers, edible gold glitter sprinkled in with the ‘moss’ and a gold ribbon to trim the board.

Woodland wedding cake hellebores and damson blossoms by Juniper Cakery

The addition of the small fondant muchrooms, bracket fungus and moss adds quite a carefree, quaint and nature-loving look to the overall design especially partnered with the usual florals and bramble berries! Each mushroom is fondant or white modelling chocolate with light hand-painted accents!

This design sure was a pleasure to create. We loved every aspect from the glimmering fondant bees to the unusual and striking scabiosa flowers!

 

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Gruesome Zombie Finger Cupcakes!

With Halloween fast approaching we’ve been working on a super fun and rather fang-tastic collection of cake and cupcake tutorials (complete with delicious recipes)! For our first Halloween inspired tutorial we’re going to show you how to whip up some Gruesome Zombie Finger Cupcakes. These terrifying cupcakes are perfect for spook-tacular kids parties and shindigs!

Zombie cupcakes by Juniper Cakery

Zombie finger cupcakes with edible blood by Juniper Cakery

Materials and tools needed:

Step by step fondant zombie fingers by Juniper Cakery

Step 1:

Mix grey/green fondant or sugar paste with CMC/Tylo powder (approx. 1/2 teaspoon powder per 150g) and shape into a sausage shape around 5cm in length and 1 1/2-2cm in width. 

Step 2:

Work to make the sausage shape taper at one end. To create the ‘knobbly’ knuckle look use your index finger and thumb to squeeze slightly at both sides of where a knuckle would naturally occur.

Step 3:

Take a veining tool and scour lines along the knuckle and joint areas of the finger.

Step 4:

Carefully press a half oval shape into the tapered end to create a nail bed.

Step 5:

Mix a little CMC in the grey or beige, depending on preference for the nail, fondant/sugar paste and roll out.

Step 6:

With a blade tool or scalpel cut out small rectangles from the fondant.

Step 7:

With the veining tool scribe some rough ridges vertical-wise down the nail. Attach to the finger with a little edible glue.

Step 8:

For some extra detail lightly dust the knuckles, joints and the area below the nail bed with some black, brown or dark green blossom dust.

Zombie cupcakes by Juniper Cakery

Bloody finger cupcakes by Juniper Cakery

Zombie finger cupcakes by Juniper Cakery

 

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