Mice/mouse and Penguin

New month, new stuff. Penguins and mice. 

Last week (sorry don't get on the computer much) I made some grey and black icing. Dad got me some black food colouring. I'll start with the grey mouse.....

I found that making grey was a lot easier then making black. The mouse itself is big, but smaller then some other icing friends that I've made.

Penguins.....

    A Mummy penguin and three baby penguins. The smaller they got the more complicated to would get, because it would have to be for scale and persisted. Now getting that black that was a challenge in itself. From grey to dark grey, to even darker grey then light black then black. Very soon I got bored with rolling the icing.

Here are a three of the four penguins.....

 Mummy penguin

 

Two baby penguins

    

Crocodile Cake

Hello
A couple days ago I made a vanilla layered cake without the layer. Things just went a little wrong. so it turned out to be very flat, but that's ok. I iced the cake with blue icing. I used the icing that makes it taste strawberry, you were meant to just add water to the icing, but I started to make butter cream icing but I didn't have enough plan icing. So I added the pink icing. On the back of it, it said 200g icing sugar and something like 2T butter optional. My Mum has used this icing before without the butter and it didn't turn pink. I had the butter and it turned pink. I had to use a lot of blue food colouring. In the end I made it turn blue. Not in the shade I wanted it to be. But that's ok. I made this cake so i could but my giant crocodile on it.
Here is what it turned out to look like.....

I had a little trouble getting him on the cake. But I got him on in the end with some help from Dad. His leg was  going to full of. I joined it on with some water but you can't really tell.
To me the cake was not finished, so I made some fish to go on it.
Here is the final look.....

Now it looks complete, don't you think.
Here's a close up on the fish

Well I have now told you all I can about this cake.
          
            

More Icing Friends

Hello again. Today I have made some very big, good looking friends which are course made out of icing. And here they are.

The first I want to show you is my Green Crocodile.....

He ended up being a lot bigger than I intended (as always) but now I can use him on a cake of some sort. I still don't have any black icing so his eyes turned out to look a little funny.

Next is my Yellow Cat.....
I personally like this one because well he is a cat playing with a ball. With my cat I had lots of fun making him because I got to learn some new techniques. For example his head and ears, to make the ears all I had to do was pinch the end of the head. But yes there are lots of new things/techniques I learned with the cat.



                                                                                    Lastly My Snowman.....

With my snowman I used some dry spaghetti to hold his head up. I also put the scarf then the arms when it was suppose to be the other way round. I just miss read the instructions.  

Cupcakes

           Hello Today I have made some cupcakes that are very yummy. They are called Chocolate Chip & Raisin Brioches. If you have a good taste for chocolate and raisins then you will like these. I was doing a double batch of them so there was a lot of mixture. Ended up using milk and white chocolate. At lest no one complained. I was very happy with them. I forgot to paint the top of them with some egg so they would be nice and golden. But no worry cause the turned out to be just as golden.
Here is what they turned out to look like.....

My family seems to really like them.

Icing Friends

Hi, this is my first entry on my first blog ever. I have always loved being in the kitchen doing baking and all. I also like crafting and things like that. With my icing friends, I got a icing moulds book for my birthday, and the icing itself I got for Christmas - thanks Nana. This year I have started making my new icing friends. Here are a couple I made today.

The first one I want to show you is my elephant ...

I started with white icing then dyed it pink with red colour gel food colouring. I only used a little so I could get the pink. My elephant ended up being bigger than I intended to be. But in my opinion he still looks really cute. To hold  up his head I had to use some uncooked pasta. I had lots of fun making him.            

The next one I want to show you is a white dog ...

I used white icing to make my dog. To make him look fluffy, I got a toothpick and got under the icing and flicked it up. I did it all over his little fat body apart from his face. It might be a bit hard to see his eyes and nose because they're white. I don't have any black icing yet but I do intend to get some soon. You may be able to see some little brown spots on his face, this is because I tried using some chocolate chip drops for eyes.  I did not like how they looked so took them off but some chocolate dust remained.