Oh baby!

Two pregnant workmates, both due about the same time. So thought I'd try another topsy turvy, and this one is more topsy than my first attempt with the teapot. First, concept drawing using my iPad Autodesk Sketchbook Pro app. Love the app coz it works in layers. First layer is the base cake which is the toy box and teddy. Second layer the alphabet blocks. This way, if the topsy turvy doesn't work, I don't have to erase everything and start over; I simply erase the second layer and do the blocks again.

Toy box cake is a 6" square orange Madeira sponge, layered and covered with dark chocolate ganache. I cut out fondant rectangles to size and made some wood impressions.

Same thing with alphabet blocks in various colours.

Test out the angles...

Would have loved to add more toys and details but I had 2 novelty cakes to make that weekend, so it was quite a rush job.

Oh well, still got eaten!

Ooh la la!

I made edible toys yesterday. These are cake toppers for a little boy. They're going all the way to France! My fondant sculptures are seeing more of the world than I am... I'm envious. LOL. A friend at work commissioned me to do these for her grandson, Toma's birthday.  Took me all of yesterday to make them. They each started life as a single Kellogg's LCM breakfast bar.

The helicopter is for the birthday boy (see his name on the chopper?), and the pink beetle is for a girl who'll be at the party. I was informed there'll be 4 kids at the birthday bash - 2 boys with blonde wavy hair, a girl with dark curly hair and another boy with dark curly hair; hence, the reason for 4 toys and kids with matching hair.

The blades on the chopper actually spins! Yes, Toma can play with his food! Isn't that every kids' birthday wish?

The trickiest part now is to pack these really well so they survive their trip to France.