Cakes by Lauren http://laurenlee.posterous.com Most recent posts at Cakes by Lauren posterous.com Sun, 20 May 2012 03:32:00 -0700 Luke & Jo's Wedding Cake and Dessert/Sweet Table http://laurenlee.posterous.com/luke-jos-wedding-cake-and-dessertsweet-table http://laurenlee.posterous.com/luke-jos-wedding-cake-and-dessertsweet-table

Very special friend's, Luke and Jo, got married recently. Luke's very talented mother in law created an amazing sculpture of the bride and groom, I made a cake for this to stand on.

I also created a dessert table which allowed me to have a go at creating 30 origami flowers as well!

The cake: Topper made by mother of the groom, Brenda. The rest of the cake is simple which fondant with purple trimming and non-edible crystals.

The dessert table: I was very excited to create the dessert table and had a lot of fun. The centre vase contains 30 origami flowers all hand made by me with a little help from my husband as time ran out! The flower stems are sherbet. I also made cake pops and filled up jars and glasses with wonderful sweets and chocolates.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:29:36 -0800 Wedding cake for a beautiful bride http://laurenlee.posterous.com/wedding-cake-for-a-beautiful-bride http://laurenlee.posterous.com/wedding-cake-for-a-beautiful-bride This wedding cake is my first cake after a long break due to pregnancy and spending the first 3 months with my gorgeous little girl.  I knew it would be difficult to make a cake while caring for a 3 month old, but I didn't quite realise how difficult!

The cake is a 3 tier sponge and the bride requested a string of edible pearls to be draped over the cake. 

The cake was delivered in true new mum style - in a Huggies nappies box.

  • time to make: 4 x longer than it should have
  • favourite part: creating the pearl necklace
  • biggest challenge: adding the detail before my baby needed me to avoid the icing setting.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Sat, 04 Jun 2011 02:47:25 -0700 Holden ute cake on a beach for 21st birthday http://laurenlee.posterous.com/holden-ute-cake-on-a-beach-for-21st-birthday http://laurenlee.posterous.com/holden-ute-cake-on-a-beach-for-21st-birthday Scott's cousin celebrated his 21st this weekend. He owns a black Holden Ute, which he loves, so we decided to make him a cake of his car.

Everything on the cake is edible and moulded mostly from fondant. Black fondant is always difficult to work with as so much colouring is required to create black that the icing becomes dry and cracks easily. This quantity of black would have taken forever to knead, luckily my wonderful husband stepped in and gave me a hand which was greatly appreciated! I tried to avoid cracking by glazing the car with a petal glaze, this worked as no further cracks formed after I applied the glaze.

The sand around the car is blended shortbread biscuits. In the past I have used brown sugar to create sand but I have never required this quantity - I thought the volume of sugar in this case would ruin the cake. I am very happy with the look of the sand and will use blended shortbread in the future as opposed to brown sugar.

  • time to make: 9 hours
  • favourite part: the rear headlights and sand
  • biggest challenge: cracking black fondant and shaping the cake

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Mon, 30 May 2011 04:04:38 -0700 Red velvet cupcakes with a little help from a friend - @annasamara http://laurenlee.posterous.com/red-velvet-cupcakes-with-a-little-help-from-a http://laurenlee.posterous.com/red-velvet-cupcakes-with-a-little-help-from-a When Jo and Luke asked me to make their engagement cupcakes I was very happy. I really wanted to create something perfect for a very special couple. Jo requested a red velvet cupcake tower with a cake for cutting on top of the tower. I have not baked red velvet before but knew that the lovely @annasamara is an amazing baker and an old hand at red velvet cakes. 

Anna agreed to help out and baked 130 delicious red velvet cupcakes. I did what I like to do best and decorated Anna's hard work with cream cheese icing and moulded dark chocolate hearts to display on each cupcake.

I created and decorated the top cake which was my speciality - vanilla sponge :)

I loved working with Anna and was so confident in her ability to bake fantastic tasting cupcakes - everyone at the party agreed.

Thank you Anna <3

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Sat, 28 May 2011 23:02:00 -0700 The groom's cake http://laurenlee.posterous.com/the-grooms-cake http://laurenlee.posterous.com/the-grooms-cake

This week I attempted my first groom's cake. A groom's cake is  a comical cake displayed at the wedding reception. The bride and groom chose this funny scene where the bride is upset because the groom has passed out drunk post wedding festivities. 

This cake was very entertaining and fun to make. While fun, this is one of the hardest cakes I have done. I don't have much experience moulding figures or creating furniture. 

The cake is a plain sponge with vanilla icing. Everything has been created out of fondant and cake, the only part of the cake that isn't edible is a cardboard support for the bed board. 

I hope the bride and groom enjoyed the laughs the cake hopefully found!

  • time to make: 16 hours
  • favourite part: the groom
  • biggest challenge: moulding figures, perfection required for edgings and furniture

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Sat, 09 Apr 2011 21:26:17 -0700 Barbie cake for 3 year old Tereneah http://laurenlee.posterous.com/barbie-cake-for-3-year-old-tereneah http://laurenlee.posterous.com/barbie-cake-for-3-year-old-tereneah Unfortunately I forgot to take photos of this cake. We took photos in the car on delivery with my iPhone.

This cake is a raspberry swirl with marshmallow icing and marshmallows between the layers. Everything on the cake I made from fondant apart from the wings and necklace that came with the Barbie, which were too pretty not to use!

The dress was more challenging than the last Barbie cakes I have made. Raspberry swirl cake is light and tended to fall apart as I was shaping the dress. I will stick to a dense cake for any future Barbie cakes.

This design took 6 cakes, about 1kg of fondant and a giant bowl of marshmallow icing.
  • time to make: 8 hours
  • favourite part: making Barbie's dress
  • biggest challenge: creating a grass look with fondant, I don't think I am quite there yet

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:15:00 -0700 Helping my cousin, Ashley, to make her first cake http://laurenlee.posterous.com/helping-my-cousin-ashley-to-make-her-first-ca http://laurenlee.posterous.com/helping-my-cousin-ashley-to-make-her-first-ca

My cousin Ashley came over on Saturday to make her first decorated cake which was a gift for her boyfriend. Ashley's boyfriend enjoys taking motorbikes off road so we made a cake of a country road and hill with a motorbike. It was great fun working with Ashley and she did an awesome job with this cake! We filled the sponge cake hill with M&M's Flake, mint Aero and way too much chocolate butter icing. We created the decorations out of fondant and used piping gel for water, Lindt chocolate flakes for the dirt road and mashed aero for moss on the rocks.

I am definitely up for decorating cakes with someone else again! 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:50:00 -0800 Thank you to all that bidded! Highest bidder - Robert T #qldfloodappeal #qldfloods http://laurenlee.posterous.com/thank-you-to-all-that-bidded-highest-bidder-r http://laurenlee.posterous.com/thank-you-to-all-that-bidded-highest-bidder-r

Robert T is our highest bidder for the Queensland flood appeal.

Once I have received confirmation of Robert's donation of $578.97 I will advise.

I wonder what cake Robert will choose...

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Sat, 15 Jan 2011 02:23:00 -0800 Auction for the #qldfloodappeal - highest bid gets a cake made by me! http://laurenlee.posterous.com/auction-for-the-qldfloodappeal-highest-bid-ge http://laurenlee.posterous.com/auction-for-the-qldfloodappeal-highest-bid-ge

I am auctioning off a cake for the #qldfloodappeal.

Comment below with your bid, highest bid gets a cake of your choice made by me!

(Brisbane only)

Bids close Friday, 21 January @ 5pm

Thank you for supporting the flood appeal.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:46:00 -0800 Matt and Jamie's wedding cake - a cupcake tower http://laurenlee.posterous.com/matt-and-jamies-wedding-cake-a-cupcake-tower http://laurenlee.posterous.com/matt-and-jamies-wedding-cake-a-cupcake-tower

Early 2010 I made an engagement cake for Matt and Jamie. Today I created their wedding cake. 

The cake topper was marble chocolate and vanilla. I created all the decorative flowers from fondant and covered the cakes with fondant. The cupcakes were a combination of chocolate and vanilla with royal icing. 

All the 100 odd guests were given a cupcake in a white box. 

The wedding was lovely and I feel very lucky to have been apart of their special day.

  • Time to make: 14 hours
  • Favourite part: Making the flowers
  • Biggest challenge: Piping 120 cupcakes

 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:12:23 -0800 Lollipop cake http://laurenlee.posterous.com/lollipop-cake http://laurenlee.posterous.com/lollipop-cake
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It is my mum's birthday and I decided to make something really fun for her cake. What is more fun than lollipops?

The cake is sponge with chocolate icing. I created the lollipop with fondant - it was a little fiddly and there are a few imperfections but really lollipops aren't perfect either, right?

The stick is also fondant, I mixed a brown and then threw some black in and lightly mixed to make the swirl look. The ribbons are fondant shredded.

The sour worms and liquorice all sorts are authentic - I couldn't mess with people's taste-buds that much! 

Time to make: 3 hours

Favourite part: the swirls

Biggest challenge: the swirls!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Sun, 07 Nov 2010 01:45:00 -0800 Angry birds cake http://laurenlee.posterous.com/angry-birds-cake http://laurenlee.posterous.com/angry-birds-cake

Angry Birds cake was more of a challenge for myself. I don't have a home for it yet, so if you want it we can work something out :)

The cake is vanilla with chocolate icing. I moulded the birds and pigs out of fondant. The tower is LCMs covered in fondant - to make the wood grain I scraped the fondant and hand painted the blocks in different shades of brown. The paint is made of icing gel and colouring.

Time to make: 8 hours

Favourite part: the birds

Biggest challenge: making the tower and keeping it from falling over

Disappointment: how glossy the tower is, I would have preferred a matt finish

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:21:00 -0700 Engagement cake for Mark and Delyle http://laurenlee.posterous.com/engagement-cake-for-mark-and-delyle http://laurenlee.posterous.com/engagement-cake-for-mark-and-delyle 3 tier cake for Mark and Delyle's engagement as well as Delyle's birthday.

The base is chocolate cake, middle layer and hearts are vanilla sponge. All layers are covered in chocolate icing and flake.

The design is coloured fondant.

  • Time to make: Approx 6-7 hours
  • Favourite part: Adding the hearts to the base layer
  • Biggest challenge: Stripes on the second layer'
  • Disappointment: Pink icing going spotty - this is not as noticeable in real life, I think the flash accentuates it.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:42:00 -0700 Russell from Up cake http://laurenlee.posterous.com/russell-from-up-cake http://laurenlee.posterous.com/russell-from-up-cake

This was a gift from Michael to Teags for their one year anniversary. 

The cake is 5 alternate layers of chocolate and vanilla sponge cake with m&ms, crunchie and flake between the layers. 

Russell is moulded from rice crispy treats and covered with fondant.
  • Time to make: approximately 12 hours
  • Favourite part: Making the house
  • Biggest challenge: Russell's face and arms

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Sun, 03 Oct 2010 03:02:55 -0700 Caitlin's birthday gift - heart shaped mud cake cupcakes with flower decorations http://laurenlee.posterous.com/caitlins-birthday-gift-heart-shaped-mud-cake http://laurenlee.posterous.com/caitlins-birthday-gift-heart-shaped-mud-cake

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Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing and crumbled green butter icing for grass.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:21:19 -0700 Oreo cupcakes http://laurenlee.posterous.com/oreo-cupcakes http://laurenlee.posterous.com/oreo-cupcakes
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These looked almost too delicious to give away!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:14:11 -0700 High tea cake - table and tea set http://laurenlee.posterous.com/high-tea-cake-table-and-tea-set http://laurenlee.posterous.com/high-tea-cake-table-and-tea-set High tea cake for lovely twins turning 21. Cake is layered vanilla and choc sponge with choc chips. The decorations are fondant.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:46:29 -0700 Mario cake http://laurenlee.posterous.com/mario-cake http://laurenlee.posterous.com/mario-cake Mario cake made for Scott's sister. This cake was a challenge and my first attempt at small character sculpting. The decorating is done with fondant and the cake was half vanilla sponge half chocolate with chocolate icing.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/411292/62952890.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3sOjkpMDIgr7 Lauren Lee Lauren Lauren Lee Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:34:31 -0700 Ice-cream cupcakes http://laurenlee.posterous.com/ice-cream-cupcakes http://laurenlee.posterous.com/ice-cream-cupcakes Cupcakes baked in ice-cream cones with butter icing and decorated with sprinkles and marshmallows. 

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