DD1 is not having a birthday party this year but we will do dinner at the IL's on her birthday like we do every year.
I thought i would have a go at making her a Dora cake using some of her Dora figurines.
I don't want to use a packet mix so has someone got a nice easy cake & icing recipe they could suggest?
Cake - i was thinking maybe a choc mud cake or similar, something that will hold icing and figurines without risk of sagging ?
I have a high walled square cake tin i would be using so get a little more rise/balance out of the cake ???
Icing - i don't know if it's better to do fondant so i can get a flat covering, i was thinking of doing it green (grass) maybe attempting to make (or buying) some flowers, then possibly making some blue jelly to put as a little 'lake' and have Dora and some of her friends, some fake trees etc?
I made DD a Dora cake (it's on my FB feed if you wanna look) I just used a butter cake and butter cream icing. The figures sat up fine but they were duplo figures so not much weight in them
Aww thats so cute, i'd have to buy myself a new piping bag
Hmmmm so much to think about, i'm interested in giving fondant a go but i'm not sure how hard it is.
Icing has always been my downfall but i'd like to give it a try... SIL found these cool deco's that were ROCKS but they were chocolate, i was thinking i could put the rocks as a edge for the jelly lake but the cake wont be very big so maybe thats a little ambitious?
fondant is a lot easier than you think, I made Lucy a dora cake for her birthday and it turned out really well. Watch videos on youtube thats how I learnt
I can come and help you, crazy woman! I have a brand new icing kit ready to be tried out. I second buttercream icing, you can do so much with it. For DD's 1st birthday, I did a In The Night Garden Cake. I wanted it pink, but I had green tufts of "grass" all over it to represent the garden. Let me know if you want me to come and give you a hand
Hmmmmm that could be a good idea PRMG - is M's ITNG cake on FB?
I was planning on possibly going to the play centre the week of her birthday, maybe i could do it the day before then we could come back here?
Yep, it's in the cupcakes album. And the best part about buttercream is that you can make it in advance and freeze it. I've used marshmellow fondant too - have a look at the number 2 cupcakes - they're not perfect but it was my first shot at it. Most of the photos in that album are buttercream.
Happy to fit in with you, we can come for a visit after playing in Oct.
Seems cooked, maybe I should do oven at 150 and cook for same time next week? Taste test when do gets home.
A stuffed the icing though by helping herself and putting it on the warm
Cake while I was out if the room needless to say it melted & looks fowl!
Sent from my iPhone, more than likely while I should be doing something else!
So if i maybe put the oven on say 150 or 140 with the fan on and cook it for 2hrs do you think it would be better?
Will do the taste test later and the icing WILL NOT be going on while Ava is awake next week...
I'd tend to go shy of the time it says to cook it. I'd keep it on the same temp and when it gets close to the time it's supposed to be ready, start checking it. If the top cracks, you can always flip it, but it doesn't matter so much if you're going to ice it.
How was it to taste though? Was it dry or was it okay? If it tasted okay, I wouldn't fiddle with it too much. Sorry, probably stating the obvious...I'm bloody tired.
Don't forget too, you are your own worst critic. I can see every mistake I've made on a cross stitch, or the lump in the fondant on a cake, but nobody else can.
I've seen a couple of things that will stick fondant on - egg whites on the cake will help stick the fondant down. The cake I made yesterday I was supposed to have a cream cheese frosting on it but I didn't have enough so I put a thin layer of cream cheese over the top of the cake and then put the fondant on. Was a bit worried about that one, but we got a nice subtle cream cheese taste. Doing a layer of icing the same colour of the fondant would smooth it out and hide the cracks - especially if they're wide cracks (but whether it's the "right" think to do as far as a cakemaker goes remains to be known! LOL). I'd go for it, but then in my kitchen, anything goes!
I'm going to do buttercream icing under the fondant and then also use buttercream to hold the figurines in place aswell as a sticky base for my sprinkle river and flake dirt track
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needless to say it melted & looks fowl!
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