In celebration of spring, the next cake I had to make for class was a spring cake. The teacher showed us various models we could make - sheep and ducks etc but I decided to put a lovely little bunny on my cake. The sponge was madeira with vanilla butter cream and raspberry jam. I really do need to find myself a better cake recipe for this - although this cake was ok, it wasn't anything amazing. I used sugar paste squeezed through a garlic press to give the grass effect and made little flowers and carrots and attached them with edible glue.
This is definitely my best cake yet - the finish on the fondant was lovely and smooth and I am definitely improving at making models. The only thing I really do need to practice at is rolling my fondant out - we cut into this cake and it was about an inch thick! Karl and I love fondant so it wasn't such an issue but I'm not sure other people would be of the same opinion!
Practice makes perfect though!
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wow Cat that cake looks so cute. It looks really profesional, you should be really proud of yourself.
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so pretty ! Love the bunny and the carrots. Well done
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This cake is too cute! It looks so professional.
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Wow! How sweet, it must of taken you ages. Far too cute to eat, I hope you are keeping the wee topper.
ReplyDeleteAhh thank you all for your comments..I am very proud of this cake and how cute it looks. I was going to keep the topper but wasnt really sure what to do with it and then i knocked its arm off so in the end decided it had to go! A bit of a shame but I'm sure there will be other opportunities to make another!
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