A couple of cakes

Made two cakes since the last time I posted anything.

The first was my very first marzipan cake. Never made that before. ^^ It had one layer of vanilla, and one layer of raspberrycream, on top a bit of whipped cream and marzipan. The logo is melted chocolate, the letters decoration jello, and the flowers and leaves are made of marzipan. The cake was really good. ^^ Akribi had their 25th year anniversary as a company this May, so that was my excuse to bake this time.



This other cake was a "welcome to the world" cake for a little boy. ^^ Pretty pleased with it actually. Had made the baby figure a few days before, so it was a bit too big. Had to cut the blanket it lays on a bit to fit on the cake. ^^


Same type og cake as the marzipan one, bit one layer og chocolate cream, and one with raspberry cream and banana. Whipped cream under the sugarpaste lid. The decorations are also made in sugarpaste.

From these two cakes I've learned that I really like raspberry cream in these kinds of cakes. ^^ Next time I'll have two layers as raspberry cream and banana I think. =)

Birthday cake

Another birthday came up and we were asked to fix dessert for tonight as a birthday present. That gave me the chance to try and bake another sugarpaste cake!

Tried making it purple by mixing red and blue, but getting a good color out of it didn't work out to great. May just be that I didn't have the patient for it tho. Anyways, made some new white sugarpaste for the top, and took some pink from the freezer to make the decorations. I also bought some green marzipan for leaves.

Made roses, flowers, leaves and butterfly (finally found butterfly cutters!!) and wrote her name on it. It turned out pretty nice actually, but i think I'll try making the roses shorter next time, or maybe I'll make more of a flower bouquet..or a ribbon. Haven't tried that yet either. After this picture was taken I also made a border around the bottom of the cake (not the dots, I switched them). Also had another butterfly on it. =P I'll get a picture of it in here later.


I made a chocolate cake, with chocolate filling with some strawberry bits in it. Under the sugarpaste i had a mocha filling.

People said it was good, so I will assume it was and that they didn't just say it to be nice. I thought it was good at least. =P A bit "heavy", so maybe I'll try a vanilla filling or something next time. Hmm.. We will see.

It seems I always get less time to make these cakes than I need, so I never get to do quite what I want or get enough time to think through what i really want to do. Oh, well.

Also, it seems like all my cakes are pink. Hehe. ^^ (the secret cake I've written about earlier wasn't tho!). This time it became pink cause the purple didn't work out and I had pink in the freezer from the purse-cake. Was easier to just unfreeze that than to make a new batch of sugarpaste.

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A bit blurry cause its taken with a mobile phone.

Min første stablekake

Slik ble den seende ut. Ble ikke helt som jeg hadde planlagt det, men ble litt stress med å pynte den.

Sjokoladekake, med sjokoladekrem, mokkakrem, og en mørk sjokolade kremaktig greie inni, med sukkerpasta lokk og pynt.

Ble nokså fornøyd med min første sånn fancy kake. Ble litt bulkete og pynten ble litt tykk, men det får man jo bare prøve å gjøre bedre nesten gang.


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My first try on a cake like this. With a small one on top of a bigger one. First time I've also decorated an entire cake with sugarpaste. Fun! And I am also pretty pleased with the result. Its my first one after all.

Veske kake

Dette var et skikkelig "fort og gæli" prosjekt. Vi reiser jo nordover snart, så ingen vits å bruke lang tid på ei kake som blir ødelagt. Poenget med å bake den i hele tatt var å se hva jeg kunne få til om jeg gjorde det kjapt og uten mye planlegging. Dermed kan jeg jo regne med at jeg kan få det bedre til på ei kake jeg bruker god tid på.

Denne kaka ble soggy og skjev, og kantene er ikke godt satt sammen, målene er ikke tatt ordentlig, så den er litt sånn på halv tolv. Men! - min første veske-kake er iaf gjort, og man ser jo hva det skal forestille, sant?! :D Ikke smakt den enda. =P Hva den smaker kan jeg enda ikke si noe om. Uansett, så er oppskriften en annen enn den jeg vanligvis bruker, fordi den hadde færre ingredienser og var lettere å hive sammen. ^^ Neste gang skal den bli finere og i tillegg gå å spise! Det er iaf målet!



In short; purse-cake! My first. ^^ Its made quick and very wrong, just as a first attempt to see if its do-able for me at all - and i think it is! Next time it will be better! Or very similar, only good to eat as well. =P (havent tasted this one yet)

Much better than bread!

I'm not all that fond of bread, so lately I've been baking what we call "rundstykker". I don't really know the english word, but lets call them breakfast buns! These aren't really any fun to make, but it is so much better then bread, especially bought bread. Also it feels like there is more food in these than the types of bread we've tried.

Makes it easier to take something small to eat during the day as well. I have a tendensy to just not eat if there is nothing slightly tempting to find. so; problem solved! ^^ They are really good! Who needs bread anyways?