Abundance of Birthdays...

Abundance of Birthdays - Danny's 21st

Danny adores cards and poker so what better way of celebrating his birthday with a card themed cake.
I actually thought this cake would be the hardest to make because it seemed so fiddly but it wasn't too bad. 

Steering away from the usual hemisphere cake tin, I decided to go for a normal round pan this time as I wanted a flat surface at the top.

This cake is a Victoria Sponge (usually I just make a normal sponge cake) so I made my own buttercream and used non seeded jam in between the two cakes. Instead of using two cake tins, I used one and divided it into two with a cutting wire so I knew I would get two equal sizes.

To make the cards I cut out the fondant icing using the red tool from the Wilton Icing Tool Set (http://www.lakeland.co.uk/15936/Wilton-Icing-Tool-Set). I had to pick the icing up with icing tweezers so I wouldn't deform the card shape. 

I attached them to the cake using water, however, when attaching the card suits it proved better if attaching them with icing pens and the water made the colour run.

Unfortunately I don't have a third photo as Danny decided to do the honours of taking a photo and I forgot to mention I usually take a side angle photograph. But, the suit card shapes are still visible so this isn't a problem :) 

I used the heart plungers to make the hearts (be silly not to) and the spades as I knew it would be difficult carving them out of the fondant and making them look the same. For the diamonds I made strips and cut them diagonally so they would be of a similar size and shape. Then for the clubs I used the flower plunger and cut it into half.

If to do this cake again I would use cut out a thicker piece of fondant icing for the last card (hearts) so an imprint of the other card couldn't be seen through it. I would also use icing letter cutters to write the 'Happy 21st' instead of using icing pens to give it a fuller appearance.

Checking In Again!

Checking In Again!

It has been so long since I have posted on here so I thought I ought to post about the cake I made for my sister's birthday (28th June - woops).

So here it is! 

I decided to make this cake at home rather than at my university house because I was worried that transporting it might damage it. But I managed to take over the whole kitchen - sorry nan!

I used the hemisphere cake tin again to make it look like a hill and rolled green fondant icing onto it. As I had to create the cake quickly I didn't make my own fondant icing.Ruby wanted butterflies and flowers on it so I used my favourite plungers to create this effect. 

 I decided against covering the cake board this time as I didn't like the effect of the stretched fondant. However, I think for my next cake (that will have inspiration from this cake) I will use piping bags and use green royal icing. I didn't use that for this cake as I thought that the cake would already look too busy with the butterflies, hearts and animals. 

But I had to make the cake quite crowded anyway as she wanted lots of little pretty moulds

Here's the gorgeous birthday girl! 

6 already... Argh!