Since E's second Birthday cake took me three days to put together I think it is appropriate that I dedicate a special post for it. I am just getting a hang of making figurines in fondant and with every birthday cake I make I hope to get better but it doesn't always turn out that way! The cake topper is Miss Mary Mack which looks a lot like E, like I intended but this came out well in the second attempt. The first one that I made looked more like a very plump baby dressed in black with unusually big head! I dare not post that picture here so just the description should do for now. E saw it and she recognised that it is Miss Mary Mack (well I may have mentioned it a couple of times that it is Miss Mary mack cake) either ways E loved her birthday cake and she enjoyed chewing the elephant's heads off!
There has to be a lion and a clown if it is a carnival and elephants all dressed up for their magnificent jump over the fence. Gold painted stars and bright red stripes along with yellow diamonds just brought everything together.
The cake was chocolate and vanilla flavoured with strawberry buttercream icing and chocolate ganache in between the layers. I don't have a picture of the inside of the cake to show you but it was quite soft as compared to the dense cakes that I usually make to cover with fondant. It did make the lower tier to sink a bit with the weight of the top tier but not by much so the cake managed to stay standing all through the party. All in all I was content with the cake and managed to finish it just in time for E's birthday party!
Since the elephants in the rhyme preferred to jump over the fence they landed up in the carnival. I wanted to create a cake inspired by the nursery rhyme Miss Mary Mack as well as the carnival. I made a taller top tier to resemble a top hat (not very obvious though but thought process counts!) This nursery rhyme says "she asked her mother mother mother, for fifty cents cents cents" I couldn't find a chocolate coin for fifty cents so I used two 20 cents and one 10 cents chocolate coin instead.
There has to be a lion and a clown if it is a carnival and elephants all dressed up for their magnificent jump over the fence. Gold painted stars and bright red stripes along with yellow diamonds just brought everything together.
The cake was chocolate and vanilla flavoured with strawberry buttercream icing and chocolate ganache in between the layers. I don't have a picture of the inside of the cake to show you but it was quite soft as compared to the dense cakes that I usually make to cover with fondant. It did make the lower tier to sink a bit with the weight of the top tier but not by much so the cake managed to stay standing all through the party. All in all I was content with the cake and managed to finish it just in time for E's birthday party!
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