Barney And Friends Sugar Figurine

As much as I love baking and decorating cakes, there are times when I'm not able to cope with the demand of my daytime work and my family commitments. Time is so precious and sometimes I wish I have more than 24 hours a day and that my body doesn't need so much of sleep.. :) That would be impossible I know..LOL..Being said that, I just love what I'm doing at the moment and I feel happy that I'm able to do little things like these that could make a little child happier..:) OK enough of my ramblings..:)

I wasn't able to accept an order by a friend for a whole cake with figurines for a particular day. Hence, I was commissioned to do figurines of Barney and Friends instead. The figurines would be placed on a cake which would be done by someone else.

Ok let the pictures do the talking.. and here they are..

This is B.J

This is Baby Bop.

Baby Bop and Barney at the background..

I just love how this picture turns out..blurry figure in front and sharp focused figure at the back..and even more blurred background... Sorry I'm not familiar with those photography terms..lol.. but I do love the art of photography too..

From the Left: Baby Bop, Barney and B.J. They all come with little presents for the birthday boy..:) Actually, there's another orange colored character called Riff who is Baby Bop and B.J's cousin. Maybe next time I will try to do Riff if I ever get the chance to mould these again..ehhe:)

Happy 1st Birthday to Nicholas! Thanks Onalia for trusting me with these..:) I hope Nicholas had a great birthday bash..:)

Bride & Groom Sugar Figurine

Recently, I was commissioned by a bride-to-be to make a bride and groom sugar figurine for her wedding cake. Due to other commitments, I wasn't able to accept her request to bake her a 2 tier wedding cake on one of her wedding reception. Therefore, she requested me to do the figurine as a back-up plan..:) I was given a sample pic above to refer to with some minor modifications.

The specifications for the figurine which I gathered from the bride was:

1) Long, curly and brown colour hair for the bride.

2) Spiky and brown colour hair for the groom.

3) Yellow and white roses hand bouquet for the bride.

4) Green neck tie for the groom and his height should be taller than the bride.

As compared to the sample picture given, I gave this bride a long wavy hair, voluptuous bust, and a waistline :P .  As for the hand bouquet, it was rather difficult to attach tiny roses to it, so I settled with blossom-like flowers. As long as it represents yellow and white  flowers right...lol :)

I gave him a yellow flower for his corsage and I had a tough time doing his spiky hair ..:)

Do forgive me for the not-so-tidy hairdo coz I'm not a professional hair stylist..hehe..:P It's so fragile it keeps breaking..:)

As I'm not an expert in figure modelling, I hope this is acceptable. I've done my best but I guess there're still so much room for improvement..:)

Congratulations to the newly weds! May you two find new happiness in each other's company for the rest of your lives. I quote " Happy marriages begin when we marry the one we love, and they blossom when we love the one we married. May you two find love and happiness in each other's arms! "


Thanks so much to the bride for giving me this opportunity to do this figurine for their most memorable day. Cheers! :)
 
 
***Disclaimer-The figurines were not intended to be of a look-alike to the couple. It is mainly for decoration purposes only :)

Barney in The Wiggles' Car Cake

It was such a coincidence that I received 3 orders for a 3D car cake for the past 2 months. Even before I posted my 1st Lightning McQueen Car for Evelyn in August, I've already received an advance order from Cavy for the Wiggles car, and also the BMW car from Zima.  Looks like a car themed cake is very popular for boys/guys' birthday. I can now venture into car making only...ha!..:D

Who doesn't know The Wiggles? That's ME! Not until I got to do this..LOL.. That's what I love about doing thematic novelty cakes. I learnt something new each time I need to do a research on the specific theme and that makes life more interesting but of course more challenging. There's so many versions of The Wiggles Cake at the search engine. Cavy's idea was to have her kid's favourite Barney figurine to be seated in The Wiggles car and the 'Happy Birthday' wordings to be placed on the top front of the car.

So this is how it came about. I added more presents on the passenger seat to make it looked like this happy Barney is bringing presents especially for Jovan. On top of that, I added the plastic balloons to compliment the theme and to make it look more colourful and cheerful.

Red, yellow, purple, and blue are the main colours incorporated in The Wiggles theme. Check this out to know them better..:)

Front close-up view.

                          

The rear view.

The Barney figurine and all other decorations were made of fondant/edible gumpaste except for the plastic balloons, windscreen and spotlights.

Thanks Cavy for your continuous support and hope you're satisfied with the cake. Happy 1st Birthday to Jovan. He's such a cute boy and soon-to-be a handsome young man. :)