Make or Bake!
Creative types step away from their craft studios and head for the kitchen to bake cakes that pay tribute to wondrously evocative, vintage Singer sewing machines. Good enough to eat – or maybe too darn good to eat! Compiled by Janai Velez
MADE BY: Susan Spinks, from The Southport Cake Company (UK based)
METHOD:
Cake base = the chocolate cake was covered in beige fondant and painted with brown food colouring paste diluted with vodka, to make it look like old wood.
Sewing machine and accessories = sewing machine was made from Rice Krispies Treats, hand moulded and then covered in dark chocolate ganache and fondant. The accessories were made from modelling sugar paste.
CONTACT:
Visit www.thesouthportcakecompany.co.uk
Email sue@cakesales.co.uk
Learn how to quilt on your home sewing machine!
MADE BY: Sandra Durbin, from Sandra’s Cakes (USA based)
METHOD:
Cake base = the cake was covered in fondant and given a finish to resemble wood.
Sewing machine and accessories = the sewing machine was made from Rice Krispies. The details are gum paste and fondant and the flowers are wafer paper.
CONTACT:
Visit www.sandrascakes.com
MADE BY: Rosie Manning, from Rosie’s Cakes (UK based)
METHOD:
Sewing machine and accessories = sections of Victoria sponge cake were staked (with layers of jam and buttercream) and assembled onto and around the structural dowelling and boards which supported the cake. The cake was then carved into shape and covered in buttercream and sugar paste. The decorations were made using sugar paste and the detailed pattern on the sewing machine was piped on using royal icing.
CONTACT:
Visit www.rosiescakes.net
Find ‘Rosies Cakes Sheffield’ on Facebook
Create a handbag with 3D fabric flowers!
MADE BY: Michele Lawrence, from Michele Bakes Cakes (UK based)
METHOD:
Cake base = chocolate mud cake with chocolate buttercream and ganache. It was coated with dark chocolate ganache and iced. The icing was coloured a light brown and streaks of a darker brown mixed in, in such a way that it resembled wood grain.
Sewing machine and accessories = the sewing machine is polystyrene covered with black icing and painted. The accessories were made from sugar paste.
CONTACT: visit www.michelebakescakes.co.uk
Find ‘Michele Bakes Cakes’ on Facebook
MADE BY: Crumbs (Kuwait based)
METHOD:
Cake base = chocolate cake with white chocolate frosting and covered in sugar paste.
Sewing machine and accessories = the sewing machine was made out of Rice Krispies and covered in gum paste mixed with sugar paste. The accessories were made from gum paste.
CONTACT:
Visit www.crumbs.com.kw
MADE BY: Lorraine McKay, from Lorraine McKay Sugar Art (UK based)
METHOD:
Cake base = Madeira cake layered with Italian meringue buttercream and covered in chocolate ganache and fondant. The cake was dowelled so the sewing machine wouldn’t sink into it.
Sewing machine and accessories = the sewing machine was made from Rice Krispies Treats (Rice Krispies Cereal, melted marshmallows and butter) and the shape was moulded by hand. It was covered with gum paste and then black fondant. The gold detailing was hand painted using edible gold powder and alcohol blended to a painting consistency. The wheel and all the other details and decorations on the cake were created using gum paste.
CONTACT:
Visit www.lorrainemckaysugarart.co.uk
Learn fabric and painted appliqué finished with free-motion machine quilting!
MADE BY: Grace Makadala, from Dumont Cake Artistry (Indonesia based)
METHOD:
Cake base = the cake is Lapis Surabaya (an Indonesian classic layer cake), with two layers of vanilla sponge and one layer of chocolate sponge with strawberry jam filling.
Sewing machine and accessories = the sewing machine was carved out of Styrofoam and then covered with fondant, with silver, edible finishing.
CONTACT:
Visit www.dumont-cake.blogspot.com
Email dumont.cake@yahoo.com
Find ‘Dumont Cake’ on Facebook and Instagram.
MADE BY: Mark Butler, from Slattery (UK based)
METHOD:
Cake base = chocolate sponge cake filled with chocolate fudge layers, coated in a thin layer of white chocolate and then covered in wood coloured sugar paste.
Sewing machine and accessories = the sewing machine was made from puffed rice and chocolate. Once shaped, it was covered in black sugar paste and gold details were painted on. The cotton reels were made from sugar paste.
CONTACT: visit www.slattery.co.uk
MADE BY: Sondra Vicelich, from Sweet Bites Cakes (New Zealand based)
METHOD:
Cake base = chocolate mud cake base covered with fondant. The wooden effect was created by brushing the fondant with diluted brown food colouring.
Sewing machine and accessories = the sewing machine and pin cushion are chocolate mud cake. Two support rods were used to create the sewing machine structure. Fondant was used to cover and decorate the machine and pincushion and make all the other accessories. A measuring tape was used around the cake board.
CONTACT:
Visit www.sweetbitescakes.co.nz
Email sondra@sweetbitescakes.co.nz
