Edible Icing Sheets

Hello there! Just thought I'd post a few more piccies of my cakes for you to look at! The following are all decorated with an icing sheet that has been printed with images using a printer that takes edible ink-filled cartridges - my new toy!

This is the cake that I made for my daughter, Amethyst and her best friend, Laura to celebrate their 9th birthday. They are born one day apart and always share their birthday party - hence the shared cake! However this year because Amethyst wanted me to use the edible inks printer to print an icing sheet to decorate her cake with and Laura liked the idea of a chocolate coated birthday cake, I combined the two ideas!

The cake was a regular sponge cake and I chocolate coated the sides (in 4 sections with a word iced in white chocolate first for each section - ( Happy - Birthday - Laura - Amethyst ) and then I covered the top of the cake with rolled out fondant and placed the icing sheet with their picture and message on top. Then with a quick piped edge of girlie-pink icing stars, the cake was complete! The girls were thrilled with it - and so was I!!!

This cake was a lot more tricky to do than Amethyst and Laura's because the collage of images of Johnny Depp and scenes from the Pirates of the Caribbean film took longer to assemble and merge.

I printed off two rectangular sheets with the collaged images and then trimmed one into a number one figure and the other into the number eight to cover the top of the sponge cakes which I had iced with fondant icing.

Juggling the images so that the circles cut out for the figure eight didn't lose too much of Captain Jack Sparrow was the trickiest part of doing this cake and assembling the images was quite time-consuming but I think you'd agree, the effect was quite stunning!!!

I know the girl who was celebrating her 18th was literally amazed by the result, especially as her party was a complete surprise to her - she thought she was going to her cousin Ben's 1st birthday party! (She was but it was also in her honour!) I did little Ben's birthday cake too but you'll have to wait until I do a post about the childrens' character celebratory cakes that I've done to see that one!

I'll be posting a photo tomorrow of the cake that a mum at my kids' school ordered today for her little boy who'll be six on Saturday - he's also Pirates of the Caribbean mad but his mum can't find a suitable cake in any shops so, ta-da! My printer will sort him a cake out, no problem!!! :-D