25th the Cake

The cherry on the top - after all those cupcakes earlier in the blog this was the Big Cherry on the top.

I baked 8 sponges ( 200 g of butter, 200 g of caster sugar, 200 g of self rising flour , 3 eggs, 100 ml of water) to make 4 separate cakes and one small cake to be on the top. Three cakes - sponges - on the bottom were flavoured with lemon. The cake - sponges - for the middle cake were plain vanilla and the top cake sponge was flavoured with almond.

I prepared a large amount of base icing with icing sugar and butter. I separated it and flavoured it with lemon, vanilla and almond.

First I prepared three bottom cakes - these were cut to size and then filled with plum jam and vanilla icing. I put chocolate chips on the top as well.

Cakes were then iced all over and let to chill. I prepared the icing figures whilst I was waiting for the cakes to harden up. I used my moulds and set them into certain position.

Middle cake was filled with vanilla icing and the top with almond icing. Then chilled and covered with violet marbled fondant. My friend'd name is Lavender so I wanted to incorporate this in her cake.

Any in-perfection can be corrected by hiding behind the figures and pipes icing. I placed mu figures on the middle cake and allowed ladies feet to hang below the bottom edge of the cake.

I used the edible pen to decorate the figures - so they can be recognized .

Then I piped up the hair and the bow on Ladies figure hair.

I needed to be very careful whilst transporting the cakes. I assembled them at the venue.

Three bottom cakes were covered with violet marbled fondant too and white icing was piped - designed as Lavender. I also used white fondant hearts and white and silver sweets to decorate with.