Friday 7 May 2010

Happy Birthday 2-year-olds...



Originally uploaded by mamaofmelissa
When I was pregnant of my daughter, I participated the course: pregnancy and moving, some sort of pregnancy gym. Eversince we like to contact and meet each other now and then.

All children just turned 2 the beginning of the year, so when we had contact to arrange a meeting, I thought it would be nice to make the children an extra birthdaycake.

The bottom layer is a petal form cake filled with fresh strawberries, strawberry mousse and frorestfruit mousse. The upper layer, was filled with lemoncurd and lemonmousse. Both are covered with marzepin and the stars are also made out of marzepin. On each star there's a letter from the first name of each child.

It's strawberry season again.



Originally uploaded by mamaofmelissa
Just a simple forestfruitcheesecake and fresh strawberries on top to celebrate the first warm days this year.

I'm very glad to see there are edible (read not sour) stawberries again.

Facemold from Debbie Brown



Originally uploaded by mamaofmelissa
On an exhibition, I've bought this facemold. It contains 4 different sizes of faces with you can decorate to make woman-, man- or childrenfaces. It is really simple to use and vary.

This cake was made for the birthday of a friend from ballet. It's filled with strawberry jam and strawberry mousse. On the sides, I've used chocolatesticks for decoration.

Orange and chocolate bomb



Originally uploaded by mamaofmelissa
It was my dad's birthday, but I had an exam, so I wasn't planning to make a cake. Then, when I was cleaning the kitchen, I found the chocolatefondant would expire in may. So I've made this chocolate cake (yes, the cake was also chocolate) and filled it with orange marmelade and orange bavarian. Then covered it up with chocolatefondant.

For the fondant I've used the impressionmat. I love the way it leaves a nice pattern on the fondant. It seems more clear to me then when I use it on marzepin.

In blue I've put on Happy Birthday around the cake because my brother thinks it looks so plain. My lovely daughter, made the blue flowers.