The cake pictured was made for Sue, who also leaves us on Friday on maternity leave. The base is a simple butter cake from The Margaret Fulton Cookbook, but I made three muffin-sized cupcakes and one big cake from the mixture instead of two layer cakes.
To make the booties, I creatively sliced and arranged the cupcakes, then iced the whole lot in buttercream, and followed up with glace icing for piping the outline of the booties and the shoelaces. I topped it all off with Sue's name piped in chocolate.
This is a simple but effective cake - although it does have its technical difficulties in icing it (but would be a breeze for masters at cake decorating such as Su Yin or Cupcaketastic).
That's adorable. I want to learn how to make cake shapes and just boring old round and squares one's!
ReplyDeleteThanks Nirmala. I know what you mean - I find cake decorating quite challenging, so I am going to do some classes so I can add the WOW factor to my baking.
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