Mothers Day

Friday 16th March 2012 at 7pm I started making sugarpaste roses for the Mothers Day cakes, 24 hours later, the cakes are finished.  Obviously I didn't bake for 24 hours, I did actually sleep, although I went to sleep thinking about the cakes and woke up thinking about the cakes.  I finished making the roses at 10pm, went to bed shortly after, I got up at 9am to start the baking process and make the rest of the icing and flowers.  The end result, I'm very happy with.  The first job this morning was to finish making the flowers.  I then made 4 cakes (to sandwich together to make 2 sandwich cakes, filled with jam).  Next was to make more sugarpaste icing to cover the cakes, this isn't as difficult as it sounds, see the recipes section below to find out how to do it.  The sugarpaste to make the roses last night worked perfectly, as did the first batch of sugarpaste today to cover the first cake.  The second batch of sugarpaste today was not so successful.  I have no idea what went wrong, but it was not working, so I scrapped it and made a new batch which worked perfectly again. I made my own sugar glue to stick the flowers to the cake (see recipes) and then enjoyed a nice glass of wine to reward my hard work!  It's been a busy day in Melissa's Kitchen, but I've loved every minute of it. 




RECIPES


Sugarpaste:  


500g icing sugar
1 egg white
2tbsp liquid glucose


Sift the icing sugar and then add the egg white and glucose, mix together and then knead until soft and pliable.




Sugar Glue:


Small amount of sugarpaste 
Boiling water.


Break up the sugarpaste and put into a small bowl add some boiling water and mix.  It should become sticky, add more sugarpaste or water as required. 

Sugar Roses

Cut Out Flowers

Top of the cake

The finished cake