Kendo Fondant Cake
This Kendo cake I baked today is for my son's birthday.
Kendo is a Japanese martial art which uses shinai(a bamboo sword) and requires a protective gear or armour.

The cake was first covered with a white fondant and trimmed with a golden ribbon.
There are only two features on the cake:
1.The head gear
2.The word 剣道 meaning Kendo

 The head gear is a helmet called men built with a metal grille .

The word 剣道 meaning Kendo

The completed Kendo cake.

Mahjong Cake

I made a Mahjong cake for my father's birthday because he enjoys playing Mahjong whenever we have a  family gathering.

The winning combination of  Thirteen Wonders(十三么) is shown on a mahjong table with chips and dice.

 

The cake
The base cake is a square cheese poundcake.

 The square base is then covered with green and brown fondant to create a mahjong table top.

The tiles
Made with 2 layers of fondant and cut out using a cookie cutter.

Painting  of tiles

One bamboo is depicted as a bird.

Tiles are painted free hand with edible food colouring.

The Wind tiles

The dice
(made with fondant)

The chips
(Made with fondant)

Assembly of the Mahjong set

The winning combination tiles....

Stack of playing tiles...

And the dice and chips.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY...MY DEAREST FATHER

Torri Gate Birthday Cake

Baked this cake for my son's birthday.
My daughter and I put this cake together to celebrate this special occasion.

The base cake is chocolate cake with dark cherries and covered with cream cheese frosting.
The main feature of the cake is the Japanese Torri gate.
It is made with fondant and gum paste.

The Torri gate is standing on the path of crushed graham biscuits and lined by
piped grass using green colour frosting.

Pink cherry blossoms made by fondant spread all over the white cake base.

Graduation cake

To celebrate my niece's graduation, I made her a blueberry pound cake graduation cake.

I chose pink fondant to cover the cake because her Arts faculty colour is old rose.

Green wavy border lined with pink roses and pearl beads.

Two main items on the cake are the graduation scroll and cap.

 The graduation cap

The graduation scroll


Congratulations!!

Track and field fondant cake

This mini cake is for my niece who is good at track and field in her school.The base cake is chocolate cake with oreo cookies.

The cake is covered with green fondant to resemble the field and
 is also adorned with a gold medal;indicating victory.

Enlarged view of medal

The running tracks cover the top of the cake.

Guitar Fondant cake

This mini cake is for my nephew who loves to play the electric guitar.
The base cake is chocolate cake with oreo cookies.

The cake is covered with blue fondant.
Side of the cake is adorned with stars.
 

Two fondant electric guitars formed the center piece on the cake.

Longevity Shou Tao birthday cake
(Longevity Peach bun cake)

Celebrated my father's birthday with this Shou Tao longevity cake. He was very pleased with it. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!



Base cake -Carrot cake
Recipe taken from Martha Stewart, this carrot cake is moist and fragrant with ginger,orange zest and cinnamon.

Putting all the ingredients together

I baked the cake in a square tin so that it is easier to sculpt the peach shape.

The cake was then frosted with cream cheese frosting.

 

After chilling for an hour, the cake was covered with fondant and sprayed with red dye to complete the peach bun or shou tao appearance.

Two fondant leaves with a stem were added to the peach.
A pink fondant was used to cover the base.

My completed Longevity Shou Tao birthday cake.