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David's birthday cake
Tuesday is hubby's birthday. Today we had the family over for lunch and cake.
We have a joke in the family that David is the king, and he often likes to quote Mel Brooks "It's good to be the King" I thought it would be a fun idea to make him a crown cake.
Inspired by Planet Cake and also Torki's masterpiece from the Sydney Easter Show.
It's an 8 inch fruit cake with a 9 inch white coconut mud on top, carved to shape, and covered in purple fondant. I must have used 3/4 of a tub of paste to get that colour! It was quite difficult to work with. The crown details were "challenging" the ball on top is styrene, covered in fondant, the crosses and fleur de lys are just fondant, and painted gold, as is the bottom edge. The ermine border is also just some white fondant, textured and coloured with a bit of black food colour. All the coloured jewels are just bought inedible ones, the pearls and silver balls are cachous.
Phew! If you read all this you have a better concentration span than I do :)
It took me waaaaaaaay longer than I expected and I won't be putting it on my website because no one would be willing to pay for it ;)
David's birthday cake
Tuesday is hubby's birthday. Today we had the family over for lunch and cake.
We have a joke in the family that David is the king, and he often likes to quote Mel Brooks "It's good to be the King" I thought it would be a fun idea to make him a crown cake.
Inspired by Planet Cake and also Torki's masterpiece from the Sydney Easter Show.
It's an 8 inch fruit cake with a 9 inch white coconut mud on top, carved to shape, and covered in purple fondant. I must have used 3/4 of a tub of paste to get that colour! It was quite difficult to work with. The crown details were "challenging" the ball on top is styrene, covered in fondant, the crosses and fleur de lys are just fondant, and painted gold, as is the bottom edge. The ermine border is also just some white fondant, textured and coloured with a bit of black food colour. All the coloured jewels are just bought inedible ones, the pearls and silver balls are cachous.
Phew! If you read all this you have a better concentration span than I do :)
It took me waaaaaaaay longer than I expected and I won't be putting it on my website because no one would be willing to pay for it ;)