The Making : Bloom Winx Club Cake

Heya folks! I'm honestly excited about today's post. It's one of my favourite work on cakes and it's a fairy cake! Bloom from the Winx Club fairy to be exact. Last year I swore off on figurines..but at last grew to love them especially on cakes such as this one. The main features of this cake are the wings which is made of gelatine and the upper half of the fairy body which is fully made of gum paste. So let's get right on it..:)

The first thing I needed to do was figure out how to make the wings. I did some research on the internet and youtube and found out that I can make wings out of gelatine. So here I diluted some gelatine with a little water and the the coloured some of it with some blue and pink colour gel paste.

Before that I drew a sketch of the wings that the client wanted.

Here I took a plastic projection sheet, put it on top of my sketch and proceeded to drop a little bit of diluted gelatine unto it and spread it with a toothpick. This process was repeated until the whole sketch design was completed. I took almost an hour or so doing one wing.

This is how it looked like once done.

I had to leave this to completely dry for about 2- 3 hours on the plastic sheet. Once dry, I lifted up the wings slowly and careful not to tear the fragile gelatine sheet. That required a lot of patience on my part!

Okay so here you see my figurine.. okay okay I know what you are thinking.. the boobs are too big..the Winx fairies don't really look like that :)..but there's a reason for those ample bosoms...I'll tell you later heheh..Anyway I put toothpicks in the shoulders and propped it up on my sugar beads containers until it dried into shape..this took several days.

Once dried, I started painting the facial features.

Lovely blue eyes..

Outlined the eyes with some black colour and some pink eyeshadow. All this detailed painting made me resolve to buy some fine brushes for my figurine next project. It was hard to get it really tidy with a normal brush. All colours were mixed with a bit of clear vanilla flavouring to thin the gel colour paste.

Added a little disco dust to the eyeshadow..

Here I did the lashes..

..and a few white dots on the black of the eyes..to add some sparkle to them..:)

Some peach blush on the cheeks too!

Here I made some orangey hair for her..and the face was practically done.

Then I covered her body with some blue fondant and stuck on some glitter dust to make the top stand out. I was beginning to love her a lot..:)

This cake you see here is the base on which the fairy cake will stand on.

This here is her 'gown'. The cake was a moist butter cake layered and filled with blueberry jam and buttercream..yumm..

Then I covered it with a blue fondant base.

Then I stuck on layer upon layer of blue frilly fondant strips...making folds so that it will look like a flowy gown..

Made some purple frills to add to her bust.

Completed the look with some more details.

So here's where the boobs came in handy. I made her arms and rested them on them jugs until they dried. I think this post has the most mention of boobs compared to all my other posts. :P Kinda funny...

I used a cookie pop stick to hold up her torso..

Here I stuck her torso into the top of the gown skirt to finish the whole look.

Added some pink glitter to the pink part of the gown..I basically used a nice picture of Bloom as a guide on how to make her whole look.

It was time to add on the wings and I was excited to see how this would finally look. First I glued on some pink gum paste on her back and stuck the wings on either side. I didn't mind that it looked a bit funny with that blob of gum paste on the back because that will soon be covered with more hair. LOOOOVED IT!

I took a white styrofoam block and put it behind the wings to show you that it was see through. I also loved that it was shiny and fluterred in the wind...like a real fairy wing..well ..'real' as in like in my fantasy world of big boobied fairies...okayy..that didn't sound right..hmm..

Anywhooo..I added her fringe..

This is one way of making hair..just cutting of strips of fondant and lining the 'hair' details with a tool.

Glued them on her head covering that pink fondant blob on her back...added some highlights too.

Ahh..I just fell in love with her.. she's a beaute..

Her finished hair with some purple and pink roses on top.

The lovely birthday message..

Ms. Bloom was looking gorgeous..

A long post but soooo worth it. So much detail and love went into this cake..which is usually the case with my cakes but I was particularly proud of this one. I was no longer scared of making figurines. I hope you guys enjoyed this post! See ya!!

The Making : Hi-5 themed cake

1..2..3..4..HI-5!! Omg..you don't know how many thousands of times I've heard this song in this short span of being mommy..my two year old loves this Australian band and because of that I decided to make it the theme for her second birthday this year :) 

For those who don't know, this is the cartoon version of the Hi-5 band so I based the figurines on them.

These are the girl figurines sans face and clothing

and these are the guys..my favourite is Tim by the way..yeah I'm referring to the second batch of Hi-5ers..They have new members now apparently.. how do I know this? I can't help it, my daughter DEMANDS for the DVDs to be shown everyday and I must admit that I'm a fan too..bahaha..silly stalker mom..

Next up, the clothing and the details that goes with it. This is Fely.

Then the hair..

More details..this is Lauren by the way..I did the rest of the figurines the same way and basically referred to the cartoon pics all the time.

I also wanted to make Jup Jup the annoying creature that stalks Fely in the show. I made his legs using rice crispy treats.

Oooh but we must talk about the cake. These are the new premium flavours that I will introduce soon. This is coconut cake with blueberry and cream cheese filling.

This.. my lovelies is an oreo layer cake which has crushed oreos in two layers of chocolate cake sandwiching a vanilla cake (also with crushed oreos) with cream cheese filling between the layers with..yeah you guessed it..CRUSHED OREOS!!

Then I slather on that wondrous chocolate ganache..mmmehhmmm

Anywhoo..this is Jup Jup all covered with purple fondant. He's made up of butter walnut cake :)

I gave him a face here

Then I stuck on some rice crispy treats on some toothpicks and covered them with green and purple fondant.

I just poked them into Jup Jup's head like so..

There, a full head of ..urmm..hair..

Then I prepared the legs the same way too.

Next up is another favorite character on the show called Ms. Chatterbox or Chatz. Here you see her neck which is covered in yellow fondant and is appropriately made up of a delightfully fresh lemon cake with lemon curd filling.

Here you see the crushed oreo cake as Chatz's box and I put my 6" pan there to estimate the placement of Chatz's neck. I don't describe here much details on how I did Chatz's facial features but I think it's pretty straightforward as seen here.

Next  is the round cake with colourful hands all over the cake. I found these cute hand shaped cutters at my bakery supply shop and I had to get them for this cake!

Then I made the Hi-5 logo

Not my finest work,,but it was a personal cake so..what the heck!

Here I made a Happy Birthday message using gum paste and sticking some silver glitter on the individual alphabets.

This is where I placed the figurines. here you can see Tim, Lauren and Casey.

..and here Stevie and Fely!

Here's the pic of the combined cakes at my daughter's party. All and all there were 5 flavours so it was really a challenge in the sense that I had to bake so many flavours at once! There was coconut cake with blueberry cream cheese filling, lemon cake with lemon curd filling, butter walnut cake with mocha buttercream, funfetti cake (vanilla cake with colourful sprinkles baked into it) with raspberry buttercream and last but not least the crushed oreo cake with crushed oreo cream cheese filling!...faint...

One last look at the Hi-5ers..

Jup-Jup...

and Chatz!!

Got some cute stickers to stick on the board and there you have it mate! A Hi-5 themed birthday cake for my 2 year old daughter Aurora Minuya..anything for my cutie pie :)