Rose cake

I think that most "winter-children", i.e. persons born in the Nordic countries in the period between November and March, have (at some point in their lives) wished to celebrate a birthday in the garden on a sunny day, where the roses are in bloom, rather than having a birthday party in the dark and cold just before or just after Christmas and New Years....

.....and so I thought it was utterly clever of my friend, Katrin, to move the celebration of her 40th birthday to end June - not only did she get to throw an amazing garden party, she also got to stay 39 for an additional 6 month! and I got to do the ultimate summer cake:

It took two kilos of marzipan, 180 hand crafted roses, half a kilo of chocolate, one liter of strawberry sirup and three sheets of raspberry spongecake.... and the transportation from Copenhagen to Malmø by train in 25 degrees celsius was hellish, but the end result was exactly as I had hoped for:

The design for the cake was inspired by Peggy (who else?!?) http://indulgy.com/post/xpaQxiH061/romantic-rose-towerpeggy-porschen-cakes

P.S. I will NOT be doing this cake again any time soon :-)

Horse in a field

Apparently it is possible to be a "horse-girl" even before one is big enough to ride a horse! Henriette's youngest daughter, Marie My, is such a girl - she just turned 3 years old and all she wants in life is a horse called Bruno (?!?)

I am not sure my version of a horse, which seems to be a cross-over between a cow, a donkey, a horse and a hippopotamus, would fulfill the dream in real life, but as a cake decoration is fully suffices :-)

I borrowed the cake design from my good colleague and fellow cake maker, Mai-Britt: http://www.kagerier.blogspot.dk/2012/01/heste-kage.html

Book cake

Recently my brother-in-law, who studies a the Danish School of Media and Journalism, won a poster competition for the Cultural Harbour Festival in Copenhagen, which I think is pretty impressive!

The motive he chose for the poster is abstract and very simple, and I just love it:

http://www.kulturhavn.dk/nyheder/vinderen-af-arets-plakatkonkurrence-201dmin-plakat-er-et-portret-af-havnen-og-det-liv-kulturhavn-skaber201d

So for his birthday cake I thought it would be fun to use his poster motive as a book cake cover. I think it worked quite well.

Birthday cake with miniature shoes

Turning 12 years old is quite something - last year as a normal balanced human being, before the hormonal changes turn you into a strange and scary monster for a number of years before you are transformed once again into a human being - though this time a rather grown up version of your former self....

.... anyway, Mille (the first child I met, that I actually liked - probably because she was a most unorthodox sand eating princess) celebrated her 12th birthday today at her father's house, and she had told me that she wasn't too grown up to have a cake - but she's definitely too grown up for cute animals and toys, but shoes....show me any girl who is not into shoes irrespective of age, and I will show you a liar.

Twelve shoes - one for each year. It was so much fun making it!

Red marzipan cake

For so many reasons my friend, Anne Katrine, deserved having a cake and eating it to...

and as I just happened to have some cake, some mousse (strawberry and lime), some chocolate butter cream and red marzipan, and I was more than happy to accommodate her.

Ballon cake

The birthday party we were invited to got cancelled, so this morning I found my self all caked up with no-where to go..... 

Anyway, the birthday cake wasn't quite finished, so I decided to re-design it in honor of our daughter, Caroline, who turned 5 months today - talk about having your cake and not being able to eat it, poor child ;-) 

The neighbor's children are down with chickenpox, so guess who will eat the cake tomorrow....

Electric car cake

My friend, Karin, is in the process of completing a phd-study on innovation and partnership, focusing on the development and sale of electrical cars, in particular a small car from a remarkable Norwegian company called "Think".

When she came to visit, I couldn't resist making her a cake with a model of Think's electrical car. In all fairness the original car is much better looking than my feeble attempt at modeling a car would suggest.

The cake cover and dots are made of marzipan, while the car is made out of fondant. The cake is a layered cake with raspberry creme and chocolate ganache - very yummy.