The Engagement Party: The Cake
So, back here I told you about the cake that I was making for the engagement party and here is the final result…duh duh da daaaaa
Chocolate mud cake covered in white fondant and painted with gel food colours
So, what do you think? Serena absolutely LOVED it and so did the Groom so YAY for me :), I was nervous but she did a little dance about it and kept showing people all night so I’m happy!
Unfortunately I didn’t take any progress photos but basically I did what I said I would, covered the cake in some blue tinted swiss meringue buttercream I had frozen from when I made cupcakes a few weeks ago then on top of that went the white fondant. That was hard! I am going to have to practise covering cakes in fondant as I wasn’t 100% happy with how that looked but not too bad for my first go.
Because the cake was frozen and it was still defrosting, it caused the fondant to become sticky! So I had to pop it into the airing cupboard for an hour or so and then I resorted to using a hairdryer to finish it, problem overcome. Earlier I had traced the peacock onto some baking paper so once the fondant was dry I traced the outline on. After drawing over the outline with a silver grey edible food marker I starting adding the colours which were teal, regal purple and navy blue. After that had all dried a bit I added definition with black and then finally the gold details on the tail feathers.
On Saturday morning I bought some ribbon and fresh flowers to finish it all off.
Close up of the tail feathers
Close up of the head
I loved the purple flowers I found for it