Cakes I've made this month!

Hello hello!
I though i would  make a post dedicated to the cakes i've made this month since i've been kind of slack with posting anything remotely cooking or dessert related. The month of May is my second favourite for baking cakes (the first is Christmas, is it sad that i'm already watching Christmas movies during May in preparation? Don't answer that) because it is not only Mother's day but both my brothers have their birthdays and i'm able to unleash my creative thoughts about what kind of cake to make them.

 My Brother Chris is a lil bit of a Lord of the Rings and The hobbit nerd, (i think there's a bit of that in all of us)  I decided to create bilbos house, complete with a garden of tomatoes.

 Usually the eldest of my two brothers will request a cake, last year he wanted a glock gun cake (don't ask) which i did, this year he wanted Bad cop from the lego movie. 

And finally for Mother's day I made my Mum a white and dark chocolate layer cake.

Hope you're all having an awesomesauce week,

Infinite x's and o's,

Elena 

Lord Of The Rings Book Cake

Last week both my older brothers celebrated their birthdays within three days of each-other. 

Last year I made my brother Chris who was at the time working as a mechanic a wrench cake and my other brother who just became a police officer a police shirt cake. I'm definitely not a professional cake decorator but this year I wanted to do something a little bit different and knew that Chris's favourite book is The lord of the Rings (we have that in common). So I thought I would make him what I envisioned the book to look like.

The cake underneath is just a chocolate mud cake and I used marzipan instead of white fondant to give the pages of the book a more aged and a less pure white look.

 I ended up melting some dark chocolate and adding it to the marzipan to create brown.
After I added the chocolate I rolled the marzipan in a lot of cocoa to make it less sticky. When you melt chocolate in anything you have to work quite quickly before it sets and will start to crack

The writing is buttercream icing which I coloured gold. I think the next time I make a cake with this much detail I will definitely use royal icing and paint it on with a paintbrush. I tried my hand at elvish on the bottom of the book, if you can read elvish then you probably won't be able to read that.
The ring is fondant which I shaped and painted with gold colouring. 

Hope you're having an excellent week!

Infinite x's and o's,

Elena