Princess Castle for Operation Sugar
Princess Castle for Operation Sugar
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I was awoken from my Nana nap on Tueday by the phone ringing it was Sarah from The Cake Tin…trying to help Rachael from Operation Suagar (NZ version of Icing Smiles) find someone to make an urgent cake for Saturday the original baker had to pull out as had a death in her family so Op sugar was trying to find a replacement to make a birthday cake for a 3 year old little girl with Cancer
So Challenge accepted I started baking flat out Tuesday night, 9", 6" & 4" Mud Cakes….. thank goodness for Royal bakeries tutorial on Castles I based this cake on her design but also tried to make it unique (but I totally recommend buying that tutorial it’s awesome) needed a little something else so enter stage left Krazy Cools My little pony tutorial mixed with ChokoLates My little pony tutorail with a dash of my own style to create a unicorn to go with the castle made out of modelling chocolate
Alot of late nights and thank goodness I found my oven has a defost function which by the way all check your ovens incase you have this function as it mimics a dehydrator fan goes and temp between 35-50C AWESOME for drying gumpaste fast especially when we have had so much humidity here
Tip Alert***
This cake I flavoured the fondant using Lor-Ann flavour Oils – Bubblegum flavour tasted & smelled amazing…this is not my tip I’m only on sharing it originally comes from Nina of Make Pretty Cakes …she’s the genius behind that one
48 Comments
Jo it is fabulous, I love it!!!! The unicorn is soooooo cute especially those horse shoes! You are a legend and I bet she absolutely loved this, just divine! xx
Sarah, New Zealand, http://www.facebook.com/#!/TheCakeTin
Jo you never cease to inspire and I admire you so much… what a wonderful person you are to do that for them!!! its looks amazing and thanks so much for teh tip!! anothe fantastic creations… I wore your scarf with pride at my prize-giving and told the admirers where it came from too…. your special daer friend xxx
You must never limit your challenges, instead you must challenge your limits
Thank you so much Sarah, I hope she liked it, her Mum couldn’t believe how tall it was about 70cm
Calli thank you so much for your lovely comments, so glad to hear you wore the Scarf at such a prestigeous event I feel so honoured xx
Of course she liked it Jo xx She wont stop talking about it for ages :)
Sarah, New Zealand, http://www.facebook.com/#!/TheCakeTin
BEAUTIFUL Jo!!! Great cake for a greater cause!!! You really are an amazing lady!!! Well done!!! xxx
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Thanks Sarah…decorators nerves…LOL
Thanks Ana <3
very pretty I might have look at the tutorial
Thanks Kiwicakebloke here’s the link https://www.facebook.com/theroyalbakery/app_251458316228 US$5 well worth buying as are the rest of her tutorials
Love it Jo, love the unicorn with the horse shoe :-) so cute. It is so sweet of you to help out like that too and thank you for the helpful defrost tip I have to check out my oven too :-)
Sasi, Sydney Australia, http://cakesbyssn.blogspot.com.au/, https://www.facebook.com/CakesbySasi
Thanks Sasi, I didn’t know I had this function until I started playing with the function buttons I had been trying to dry with just the light on, but the fan on low temp makes them dry so much faster…Love it
