A straightforward and very tasty cupcake – a Kickass Cakes favourite. Unusually for us, there is no filling, just a delicious cardamom and pistachio nut cake with a delicate lemon cream cheese icing.
Pistachio and Cardamom Cupcakes
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Golf Course Cake
This cake was for a keen golfer. The cake itself is a panettone (an Italian sweet fruit bread) covered in vanilla buttercream then decorated with modelling chocolate. The river is made of dyed sugar and tastes of candy floss. Even the “sand” in the bunker is edible.
Raspberry Meringues
Kickass Cakes doesn’t only make cakes, we have fun with other confections too. In this case, raspberry meringues tumbling out of a basket made out of chocolate.
Sticky Toffee Pudding Cupcake
Kickass Cakes is delighted to announce that our Sticky Toffee Pudding Cupcakes, along with a selection of other delicious flavours, can now be found front of house at the Citizen’s Theatre, Glasgow.
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| Sticky Toffee Pudding Cupcake, vanilla butter cream icing and a chocolate squiggle to decorate |
Coffee and Walnut and Rhubarb and Ginger
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| A touch of the 70s, Coffee and Walnut |
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| Rhubarb and Ginger |
Box of Chocolates Birthday Cake – Part 2
Here is the finished cake – the one you saw in the sketch in Kickass Cakes’ previous post.
Now that it is completed, I can tell you what went into making it. Firstly, inside the box on the top left is a pink (Mya’s colour of choice) vanilla sponge cake covered in chocolate meringue icing with mini marshmallows throughout the centre. The wee chocolates on the top are red velvet chocolate cake with vanilla butter icing, covered in a chocolate ganache, modelling chocolate, melted chocolate and edible glitter.
Everything else is chocolate in one form or another, including the tissue paper and ribbon.
Box of Chocolates Birthday Cake – Part 1
I thought it would be fun to show you the cake making process that Kickass Cakes goes through.
At the moment, we are making a cake that looks like a box of chocolates.
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| Initial sketch idea for the Box of Chocolates |
This is the first stage – just getting ideas down on paper. Not only do I like to express my thoughts visually, but I also like to make sure that I don’t forget all the components that I want to go into the design.
The cake will be a classic vanilla sponge with marshmallows sprinkled on a chocolate marshmallow icing as the filling. The cake is for an 11 year old, after all.
The box and tissue paper will be made out of white chocolate, some of it dyed, and the little chocolates sitting on top will be tiny wee cakes each individually made.
The next post will have photos!
Toffee Apple Cupcake
A toffee apple cupcake, produced for the Citizen’s Theatre here in Glasgow.
It has an apple sponge, dulche de leche filling and buttercream topping with caramelised sugar pieces and a sliver of candied apple.
Coral Reef Cake
We believe in making our cakes taste yummy as well making sure they look good. Everything on the plate, including the sand is edible.
We were asked for a cake that was “from the sea”; so this is what we made – a coral reef, with Nemo, it was for a 5 year old after all.
The sponge inside is a simple vanilla with strawberry and vanilla jam as the filling with a plain butter cream, and when working on the coral, in order to get the colours we wanted we mixed different pre-coloured sugarpastes together in order to achieve the right shades.
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