Bear Birthday Cakes
SonnyHens GF loves pandas so with her birthday fast approaching I researched making her a panda cake. I am not very artistic or imaginative - so if I can see what some else has done then that's a great help - really don't know what I would have done before Pinterest or Google - I get many ideas from the web.
My cake recipe is my reliable Vicky sponge with added milk but only a splash. As the cake was going to be 4 layers I used 10 eggs, 500g butter, caster sugar, 170g plain flour and 500g SR flour, 2 teaspoons of vanilla paste and about 6-8 table spoons of milk
Seedless raspberry jam and vanilla butter cream in between each layer and a crumb coat of buttercream on the outside
Then the white fondant, black for the Panda face and a pink bow
Panda chocolate cupcakes were decorated with fondant.
She had a lovely day and the cake when down well
A week later a request for another bear cake - this time in chocolate - thank goodness for the wonders of the web. 20cms Vicky sponge with cupcake ears and nose, raspberry jam and vanilla buttercream filling. Covered with chocolate and vanilla buttercream - note to self: don't use melted chocolate chips for chocolate buttercream, as mine didn't melt properly and little bits of chocolate kept blocking the piping nozzle.
and then 'fur' thank goodness for a grass piping nozzle. A little black chocolate buttercream for the eyes, nose and mouth.
What have you made recently?
MummyHen
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