Monster High Draculaura Kage / Monster High Draculaura Cake

Når moren "bare" beder om en Monster High kage (som jeg aldrig havde hørt om, og faktisk hørte som Monster Hår), så er det godt at pigen selv ved, liige hvad der skal være på kagen: "Det skal være hende, der er vampyr, med lyserødt hår, nej sort hår med lyserøde striber, og rottehaler, og.. og..." Dejligt med en entusiastisk beskrivelse af ønsket, for så kunne kagen ikke komme til at se så meget anderledes ud, end tilfældet var:
When the mother "just" asks for a Monster High Cake (which I had never heard of before, and actually thought she said Monster Hair), it is good that the birthday girl knows exactly what she wants: " It has to be the vampire-one, with pink hair, no black hair with pink highlights, and pigtails, and.. and...". Wonderful to get an enthusiastic description of what she wanted, because I didn't have to do much thinking regarding the design, and this is what we ended up with:

Kagen skulle bare være en bradepande-chokoladekage, da pigen ikke kan lide fyld, men jeg har snydt lidt og bagt dem i runde forme, og lagt 2 ovenpå hinanden med et fad i mellem.
Kagen var en Sort Midnats Kage, opsmurt med Chokolade Smørcreme og overtrukket med Wilton's fondant.
The cake was just supposed to be a chocolate sheet cake, since the girl doesn't like fillings, but I cheated and bake them in round pans and stacked them with a cakeboard in between.
The cake was a Black Midnight Cake, coated with Chocolate Buttercream and covered in Wilton's fondant

Hun (eller nok hendes gæster), fik også en lagkage, men den må jeg vente med at blogge om til i morgen, for det er vist nok noget med at jeg også lige skal have lavet nogen cupcakes til i morgen tidlig, så må hellere gå i gang...
She (or most likely her guests) also got a layered cake, but I have to wait until tomorrow to blog about it, as I am supposed to make some cupcakes for tomorrow morning, so I'd better get started...

Cupcakes tårn / Cupcake Tower

Udover en 4-etagers kage, blev der også lavet cupcakes til den 14-åriges fødselsdag:
Besides the 4-tier cake, the 14 year old also had cupcakes for his birthday:

100 cupcakes bestående af Mudcake Cupcakes, Nati's Caramel Mudcake Cupcakes og White Chocolate Mudcake Cupcakes, alle sammen med IMBC og fondant pynt.

100 cupcakes made up of Mudcake Cupcakes, Nati's Caramel Mudcake Cupcakes and White Chocolate Mudcake Cupcakes, all with IMBC and fondant decorations.

Forsker og Univers Kage / Scientist and the Universe Cake

Denne kage er lavet til en dreng, der fyldte 14. Han vil gerne være forsker, og er meget interesseret i universet (og computere, men det er der så mange, der er, så det tema gemmer jeg altså til en, der ikke har andre interesser, og det er faktisk overraskende mange), så det endte med denne kage:
This cake was made for a boy's 14th birthday. He wants to be a scientist and is very interested in the universe (and computers, but so many are, that I decided to save that theme for someone who has no other interests - there are surprisingly many of those too), and this is what I came up with:

Det øverste lag bestod af Sort Midnats Kage med Jordbærmousse og Chokorangecreme.
Lag 2: Lette Lagkagebunde med Blåbærmousse og Hvid Chokoladecreme m. Daim.
Lag 3: Sort Midnats Kage med After Eight Creme
Lag 4: Lette Lagkagebunde med Hindbærmousse og Skildpaddecreme
Alle lag var smurt op med Chokolade Smørcreme og overtrukket med enten Sort Pettinice fondant eller hvid Wilton's fondant.
Top tier is Black Midnight Cake with Strawberry Mousse and Chocolate-Orange Creme.
2nd tier: Sponge Layer Cake with Blueberry Mousse and White Chocolate Creme with Daim (crunchy butter almond bar covered in milk chocolate).
3rd tier: Black Midnight Cake with After Eight Creme.
Bottom tier: Sponge Layer Cake with Raspberry Mousse and Chocolate-Caramel Creme.
All layers are coated with Chocolate Buttercream and covered in either Black Pettinice or white Wilton's fondant.

Bordet var lavet af Cocopops Treats, og overtrukket med Chokolade Smørcreme. Resten af pynten var fondant og lidt piping gel.
The desk was made using Cocopops Treats, covered with Chocolate Buttercream and then fondant. The rest of the decorations were made using fondant and a little bit of piping gel.

Kagen var vildt sjov at lave, og så fik jeg jo repeteret både fysik og kemi ovenikøbet :)
I had a lot of fun making the cake, and got to brush up on my physics and chemistry  too :)

Eve Online Logo Kage / Eve Online Logo Cake

I og med at jeg har haft så travlt med kager her på det sidste, så havde min mand frabedt sig en pyntet kage, og faktisk ville han ikke engang have en rigtig hjemmelavet. Bare købte kakao-lagkagebunde med nutella, banan og kagecreme(fra pulver!) iblandet flødeskum! Jeg gjorde da også NÆSTEN som han ønskede... men jeg kunne ikke lade være med at bage bundene, når jeg nu alligevel skulle bage 4 andre kager den dag - han kunne jo ikke holde styr på antallet af alle de bunde alligevel. Og lidt pynt skulle der også til, men når det nu både skulle være hurtigt at lave, og til at skjule for manden, så lavede jeg bare logoet til hans yndlingsspil:
Since I have been so busy caking the last couple of weeks, my considerate husband requested his birthday cake to be a simple undecorated one. With storebought cake-layers, nutella, bananas and vanilla custard. And I ALMOST did what he wanted... I just couldn't help baking the cake layers, as I had to bake another 4 cakes that day, and knew he wouldn't be able to notice the difference in numbers. And I couldn't totally not decorate it, but I had to make something simple, fast and easy to hide, so I just made the logo for his favorite online game:

Kagen bestod så af Sort Midnats Kage med Nutella, bananskiver og kagecreme, smurt op med Chokolade Smørcreme og overtrukket med Pettinice fondant. Og selvom jeg ikke er ret meget for at indrømme det, så burde jeg bare have købt lagkagebundene... Chokoladekagen (som ellers er god) var simpelthen alt for dominerende til det valgte fyld!
The cake consisted of Black Midnight Cake with Nutella, sliced bananas and vanilla custared, coated with Chocolate Buttercream and covered with Pettinice fondant. And allthough I don't like to admit it, I really should have bought the cocoa cake layers... The chocolate cake (which otherwise is just fine) was simply too dominating a taste for the simple filling.

Han havde så håbet på, at jeg ikke ville blogge om kagen, da han ikke ville have at alle skulle vide lige præcis hvor stor en nørd han er, men sådan leger vi jo ikke her på siden! Om kagerne så er mislykket, så blogger jeg stadigvæk, og når jeg ingen problemer har med at udstille migselv, så kan det da ikke overraske, at jeg heller ikke har problemer med at udstille ham :)
He then hoped I wouldn't blog about the cake, since he didn't want everyone to know exactly how geeky he is, but that is not how we do thing on this page! Even cake that go horribly wrong get blogged about, and since I have no qualms when it comes to showing my mistakes,  it can't surprise anyone that I have no qualms exposing his geekiness :)

Og så er det forresten gået op for ham, at han kunne have haft en kage med rumskibe på! Og det forventer han så, at jeg gør næste år... jeg ville komme med en eller anden plat bemærkning om, at jeg da heller må i gang med at øve mig tidligt, så jeg slipper for at skulle høre for at xx rumskib, da ikke har yy våben/udstyr, men jeg er ikke nørdet nok til at kende spillets terminologi, så jeg kan ikke engang gøre ordentlig grin med migselv :/
Of course now he has realized, that he could have had a cake with spaceships on! And now expects me to make it for next year... I would insert some corny joke about having to start practising early, so I don't have to have him point out that xx spaceship doesn't have yy weapons/equipment, but I am not geeky enough to know the game's terminology, so I can't even make fun of myself properly here :/

McQueen Kage... igen / McQueen Cake... again

Min veninde's søn er så sød. Lige siden han uheldigvis (for hans mor) så et billede af min Lynet McQueen Kage, har det været det eneste han ønskede sig, når hun har spurgt, hvad han ønskede sig i fødselsdagsgave. Så det ville hun da gerne overraske ham med, og da det så samtidig betød, at jeg fik set min veninde, hvilket er alt for sjældent i disse dage (eller år!), så har han da lige scoret nogen ekstra point i min bog, selv om det betød at jeg lavede en genganger-kage:
My friend's son is a sweetie. Ever since he unfortunately (for his mother that is) saw a picture of my Lightning McQueen Cake, that has been all he wanted whenever she has asked him, what he wants for his birthday. So she wanted to surprise him, and actually get it, and since that actually meant that I got to see my friend, which is way too rare these days (or years rather!), he scored some extra points in my book, even if it meant doing a repeat-cake.

Drengen har da også bestemt, hvad der skulle i hans kage, så det blev Sort Midnat´s Kage med Nutella og blåbær, smurt op med Chokolade Smørcreme og overtrukket med Pettinice fondant.
The boy might only be turning 3, but he knows what he wants, so the cake was a Black Midnight Cake with Nutella and Blueberries, coated with Chocolate Buttercream and covered in Pettinice fondant.

Selv om det har nogen fordele, at lave en kage igen, så er en af ulemperne (for mig) åbenbart, at jeg så ikke er opmærksom nok på detaljerne.. blandt andet mente jeg åbenbart, at jeg kunne lave hjulene, uden at kigge på billeder, så jeg endte med 4 af denne slags:
Even though there are some advantages to repeating a design, one of the disadvantages is (in my case), that apparently I don't pay enough attention to the details... as when I thought I could make the wheels, without looking at pictures and ended up with 4 of these:

Det var så lige en om'er...
Yeah, they had to be fixed...

Hello Kitty Cupcakes

Min datters veninde skulle have haft børnehaven på besøg i dag, men da moren blev syg, var det godt at vi bare kunne aflevere cupcakes i børnehaven, så hun kunne blive fejret der, mens børnehaven bare kommer på besøg, når mor er rask igen.
My daugther's friend was supposed to have had her playschool visit for her birthday today, but unfortunately her mother was ill. Luckily we could just drop off the cupcakes at her playschool, and she celebrated her birthday there instead, and will just have them over when mom is feeling better again :)

Sort Midnat's Cupcakes med jordbærcreme og pyntet med fondant.
Black Midnight Cupcakes with Strawberry Creme and fondant decorations.

Hello Kitty Kage / Hello Kitty Cake

Min veninde's datter, som også er min datter's bedste veninde, havde ønsket sig en Hello Kitty kage til sin fødselsdag. Jeg måtte selv bestemme fyldet, og da jeg vidste, at de godt kunne lide, det som var i Matthew's Playmobil-kage, valgte jeg det samme:
My friend's daughter, who is also my daughter's best friend, wanted a Hello Kitty cake for her birthday. The cake and filling was up to me to decide, so I just went with what I knew they liked, as I threw all my cutoffs after them, when I made Matthew's Playmobil Cake:

Kagen er en Sort Midnat's kage med Chokorange-creme og Jordbærmousse, smurt op med Chokolade smørcreme og overtrukket med Pettinice fondant. Al pynten er lavet af fondant (Wilton's, Pettinice, Satin Ice og Rød Candymelts fondant).
The cake was a Black Midnight Cake with Chocolate-Orange Creme and Strawberry Mousse, coated with Chocolate Buttercream and covered in Pettinice fondant. Al decorations were made of fondant (Wilton's, Pettinice, Satin Ice and Red Candymelts fondant).