We love making exciting cakes for the kids birthdays. This year, Melbourne Storm cake for Connor :

Click here for full size. This was made with soft icing, rolled out and cut into shape, and loads of agggravation on my part when I thought it didn’t look as good in real life as it did in my imagination. Sorry for the tantrum, Mon…

Ash had a scrapbooking party. Bernie is a Creative Memories consultant, (email me and I can send you her contact details) and ran the party for Ash. Between me, Mon and Jacq we designed and came up with this scrapbook page decorated cake :

Big version here. Instructions for making the scrapbooking cake, after the jump.We started with a square cake, cropped the top corner off to make the page effect at the top. Iced across that bit with plain white icing, then iced the rest of the cake with the light brown butter icing. The pages are made with thin licorice strips.

The gingham on the left is a rectangle of soft icing. I made a template by cutting out a thin strip from a piece of cardboar. Brushed the soft icing with water, and made the lines by sprinkling green jelly crystals through the template. The love hearts on the right were the same. The blue flowers were done by Jacq, I think she kinda made a circle of soft icing and curled it, then we put a dot of food colouring. Leaves and vine are also soft icing.

The photo was printed on photo paper on the inkjet. I made it sepia so it matched the colouring of the cake. The frame is soft icing again, while it was still warm I scored it with a fork so it had a woody looking texture. Used the same scored icing effect for the blocks with letters on, then the letters are the light brown butter icing piped through a piping bag that we bought for the occasion.

The blue panel behind is soft icing cut into strips and then woven - start with two rectangles, each the size you want, then cut one vertically and one horizontally. You can weave it together and then put it on the cake after.

Last bit was the sunflower. Plain white soft icing, cut the flower shape out with a knife, then use a small glass or something to cut the circle out of the middle. Brush it with water, then cover it with yellow sprinkles. I found I had to press them in a bit so they didn’t fall off. Put it on the cake, then fill the circle with brown sprinkles, and you’re done :)