Tom Windsor

What better way to say happy birthday to someone than by making a lifesize cake sculpture of their head?

Happy birthday Tom Windsor! I made the head by using a giant cupcake (with the pointy top sliced off) and filled with raspberry icing (recipe: 4 oz butter, 10 oz icing sugar, glug of milk, handful of fresh raspberries - blend!) I then covered the whole cake in sugarpaste coloured to look like skin (equal parts red and yellow colour) then added ears and nose which I stuck on with edible glue...

Then I mixed up a batch of very, very, VERY orange buttercream for the hair, which I roughly smoothed all over the head with a spatula...

Then I used sugar paste cut-outs for the eyes, mouth and teeth, which I stuck on with edible glue. And voila! Windsor's cake double was done.

I finished it off with a printer (he really wanted a printer involved) and some bags of swag - my bro's idea to symbolise Winz's thievery over the years. Head cakes are clearly the future - easy to make and there are all sorts of fun photo opportunities to be had, see below:

Voodoo cake!

Looks like there's going to be a clean up on aisle five...

Sarah Wellock's birthday demanded a very ridiculous Office-themed cake, and so Threat Level Midnight cake was created!

Starring Michael Scott as Michael Scarn, Dwight Schrute as 'Dwigt' and Jim Halpert as Goldenface.

Pacman Cupcakes - Happy Birthday Janeo!

Jane gave me total freedom to choose the theme of her birthday cake - so I picked Pacman!

I had seen some cakes similar to this on another cake blog (can't find the link now to give them credit, or else I'd post it!) so thought I'd have a bash. Sadly my black food colour doesn't go as black as I'd like so the colour contrast isn't as good as I wanted, but they still came out ok. These join my Mario cake as part of the Ridiculous Cakes Gaming Series: http://ridiculouscakes.blogspot.com/2011/04/hey-maaario.html !