Ben10 cake for my beloved

My little boy turned 5 yesterday, Valentine's day. We had a school celebration last Friday and a family lunch yesterday. I'm posting below his Ben10 cake which he personally requested. ^_^

The look on my little boy's face, PRICELESS!

Major cake wreck!

It was a tiring weekend topped by a major cake wreck! Gosh! I had to ram my head for a last minute remedy for the cupcake tower topper. The barbie cake that should go on top of the topper was too "weak" to hold the fondant. Meaning, di pa luto. Haha! And it was too late for me re-do the baking. This is how it turned out.

Butterfly fun!

This is gonna be a super busy weekend as I have an order for a Barbie cake with 100 pieces cupcakes for Sunday.

I bought this Wilton butterfly cutter last night and put it in use as soon as I got home. And look, they're so pretty, especially in pastel colors! These go on top of the fondant covered cupcakes. I can't wait for Sunday. ^_^

Gumpaste recipe

Emz, as requested, my gumpaste recipe. ^_^

I actually use 2 gumpaste recipes. One I learned from this fondant lesson that is really yummy but cracks easily therefore not suitable for nice gumpaste figures and flowers. The other one I learned from net research. I use this one in my sugar flowers and figures. It's really nice for sugarflowers because you get to roll this gumpaste really thin giving a more life-like look to the petals. Here's how to do it:

4 - Large Egg Whites

1 - 2 lb. bag 10x powdered sugar

12 - Level teaspoons Tylose

4 - Teaspoons shortening

Beat the eggwhites with an electric mixer at high speed to break it. Mix in the powdered sugar reserving at least a cup for kneading later. sprinkle in the tylose powder. Bring the mixture on your kneading table and knead in the remaining powdered sugar with your hands generously smeared with shortening. You should keep your gumpaste in a zip lock bag or any plastic bag so as not to expose it to air. Air makes gumpaste hard. Put the gumpaste in your refrigerator before using it. If your not consuming all your gumpaste, just keep it tightly sealed inside your ref.

You may also use gum tragacanth or food-grade CMC powder in lieu of tylose. For those in Manila, it's kinda hard to find tylose. I found get mine at sweetcraft.

If you are making a gumpaste with only one color, put in your food color while still mixing the ingredients.

Happy sugarcrafting!

Little Missy cake

It was my little cousin EJ's birthday yesterday. Saturday night, it was already almost 10 pm but I haven't baked anything yet and I was feeling too lazy to play with the gumpaste. I heavy-heartedly started baking and toying with the gumpaste. Then like magic, I was again at my element!

I originally wanted to make an edible little girl figure with a frilly skirt and hugging a little teddy. I started with the teddy bear but realized later that it was too big for the little girl to hug, so I made her carry a bunch of flowers instead.

Here's the cake that had me working till 6 am. lol.