"Have you ever had those little
cakes, with the crunchy ball bearings on top... ever had those... those things?
Nobody else in the entire galaxy has ever even bothered to make edible ball
bearings! Genius!"
Cakes come in all shapes
and sizes, can come traditional or moulded into whatever theme you fancy, can
be more than the traditional colour of sponge, with layers and layers of
coloured icing, toppings and fillings.
Cakes are wonderful, mouth watering delights which us at Project:
Torchwood love more than anything else, well other than chocolate, but then
chocolate can be incorporated into the cake also. Cakes
have been the topic of design since before Jane Asher wrote her first book, and
Mary Berry created her wonderful sponges, that we salivated over during the
Great British Bake Off.
Quite recently, well
over the last couple of years, people have taken cake decorating to a whole new
level. Competitions up and down the
country presented challenges to people to create extreme cake designs that
would have you standing open mouthed at the sweet delights on display. My favourite of all cake designs are those
created by Who fans, yes you know which ones I mean. The TARDIS cake, the Daleks, the multi tiered
wedding cake with a crashed TARDIS on top, or with Donna and Doctor standing as
bride and groom. The coloured swirls of
designers using a galaxy of colours for the TARDIS to rest upon.
Little Miss Cake Maker
is one such designer of Doctor Who cakes, but instead of creating the sponge
into a TARDIS she goes one better, shaping the icing to form the TARDIS, rolling
out the Dalek shape and pressing ball bearings around its skirts, and creating
the wonderful Adipose creatures from marshmallow all of which sit on the swirls
of coloured butter cream icing on the cupcakes she serves up.
We caught up with
Samantha recently as she prepared to launch her new business online and her new
line in Doctor Who kits. Samantha is a
massive Who fan, her interest in the Time Lord began in 2005.
“I've
been a true Doctor Who fan since BBC aired the new series with Christopher
Eccleston and Billie Piper. I was hooked from there, but David Tennant is my
absolute favourite! I had the idea of
making my own Doctor Who cakes in anticipation of the season finale last May,
as me and a group of fellow geeky friends had arranged to gather around a big
screen and watch it in a top quality way, that was when I wrote this: http://blog.littlemisscakemaker.com/2013/05/wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey-cake/ I then stepped it up a gear as we arranged
that night to do it again for the 50th anniversary special in November. That
was when I did this: http://blog.littlemisscakemaker.com/2013/12/twas-the-day-of-the-doctor-and-there-was-cake/
“
For those of us who look
for new fresh ideas for cake decoration and cake design Samantha’s blog gives
you just that, with step by step instructions including which colour blue for
the TARDIS that isn’t found in the supermarket, but a colour you have to work
at and the results are worth it. The
website itself is clean, bright and enticing, with its easy to read Page icons
that lead you into well spaced out posts on all that Samantha has baked,
designed, entered into competitions and much more. There are some fascinating ideas and Samantha
encourages you to try them out, giving online tips if you’re struggling over
how to make that exact design, or which piping nozzle size to use.
The Doctor Who kits retail
at £20 and include the cake mix for 12 cupcakes, a recipe and instruction card,
and sci fi decorations of TARDIS, Daleks and Adipose which comes in a keepsake
box. All you require to make the cakes with
are the butter, eggs, bowl, spoon, baking tray and oven.
In most baking kits you
pay money for a plastic or silicone mould which often lets you down and doesn’t
often look like the picture on the cover, but with this cake kit, you’re
actually receiving the created toppings, all you need to create is the cupcake
and swirls of butter cream topping, the rest is done for you.
It’s a fantastic little
business idea and one you should check out.
I’ve been salivating all morning writing this, I’m now hungry for
cake. Now where did I put that order
form?
You can find Samantha on
Blogger, Twitter and Facebook.
Photo
sources
Many Thanks!
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