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18 May 12
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Now, if you have been following our blog/twitter, you would probably know that we have recently attended a couple of Sharon Wee’s classes at Artistiq Sugarcraft.

In fact, we’ve been looking forward to Sharon Wee’s classes ever since we’ve received the mailer from Artistiq!

The first lesson that we enrolled into, teaches us how to do a teapot cake.  =)

For this lesson, we were each given a 8” round cake, which we had to tort and fill the cake with dark chocolate ganache.

This would give more taste to the cake and also add some height.

After that we had to sculpt the cake into a half sphere, and from the cake pieces that we cut off, pile it on top of the half sphere to make it into a round ball.  - A very useful technique since no cake is wasted =)

Once completed, we had to crumb coat the cake with the chocolate ganache, followed by a 2^nd coating to get it round and smooth.

Next up, is making the spout and handle.

For the spout, we were taught to sculpt from styrofoam, and sand paper it down to the size we want (rice crispy work as well if you prefer, although you would probably have to cover it with 2 layers of fondant to achieve the smooth finishing).

Aligning the spout to the cake to make sure it’s the right size

Handle is made up of rubber tubing, with skewers glued to the end to make it easier to stick into the cake.

Once that is done, it’s just a matter of covering the cake, handle and spout with fondant and decorate.

And voila, here’s the finished product.

BUT,

mydearbakes wasn’t all to please with the final product… It’s still missing something.

Hmmm, just feel that the “teapot” wasn’t complete.

As you see, mydearbakes wanted a teapot cake with porcelain effect, and hence hand-painted the flowers.

Finally determined that the handle didn’t quite go well with the design mydearbakes had in mind, so we re-did the handle and modeled 2 cups to go with it

Now, here’s the final and “complete” creation, ta-dah!~ =)

Here’s another view of the final version =)

A little close up of our 2 little porcelain cups ^^

We are really quite pleased with our teapot cake creation and the amusing part was that many of our friends thought the teapot was real when they saw the pictures! =D

I wonder if our readers will also share the same thoughts as our friends too? ^^

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“Hey, wouldn’t it be interesting if we get to see the makings of your bakes!”

And we thought,

“Sounds good, why not?” =)

To be honest, we had always wanted to post the work-in-progress bakes along with our creations. However, we didn’t get down to it partly because I’m lazy busy. ^^

So, today, we will be launching our very first “mydearbakes, behind the scene series” post!

This post features the W-I-P shots of our recent creation, a birthday cake =)

Now, we all know how the Teddy bears looked like in Gerard’s Birthday cake, but have you seen the prototypes that lead to the final design?

Here’s a few shots on our prototypes :

The size of the bear’s huge too!

This was another prototype which we created

And we went on to create the baby blocks and the accessories

Baby Block and playful bear debuts!

And now for the cake. Here’s how it looked like originally

We started covering the cake with cream

Tadah!~

The entire set of baby block done :)

The items all ready to be delivered and assembled onto the carrot cake =)

That’s it folks, the end of our first behind the scene post!

I hope you enjoyed reading this post as much as we had fun writing this.

We promise more of such postings together with our new creations in the near future =)

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mydearbakes got really excited when Gerard’s mummy contacted us to entrust us the sacred task of baking his 1st birthday cake! =D

Gerard’s Mummy wanted a number “one” shape birthday cake. In addition, she wanted a teddy bear theme for it along with baby blocks that spells out Gerard’s Name.

This is how the final product looked like :)

Now here’s the “main” highlight of the birthday cake.

Here’s another view from the top. Featuring the little playful bear ^^

Another shot featuring the playful bear

And now, this is the front view :)

Here’s another shot from the front view

We hope Little Gerard and family like the birthday cake that we have delivered to them and certainly hope that they have enjoyed themselves that day!

Once again, here’s wishing Gerard a happy birthday and may your every day be filled with joy and happiness!

—-

P.S

Credits to Gerard’s Mummy for kindly sharing with us these nicely taken pics. They looked awesome!

Credits to Gerard’s Daddy too, who spotted us when we were “lost” in the carpark looking for the resturant ^^

Oh before ending this post, we will be posting the behind the scenes pictures in our next post so do stay tuned to see how mydearbakes got about baking and crafting the birthday cake! ;)

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