October 24, 2013, admin, Food, , 1
For Little Miss A’s birthday cake I decided to make a ladybird. I had an idea in my head what I wanted it to look like and, although it didn’t look quite as good as I had hoped, I am determined to keep making them their own cakes. By the time the Little A’s are Big A’s I may have mastered the art of cake decorating!
Anyway, here is my effort…
To make the cake I made up a normal sponge mix (3 eggs with equal weights of flour, sugar and butter) and then placed it into a Pyrex bowl lined with tin foil. It took a lot longer to bake at 1 hour and 10 minutes and I left it in the bowl to cool so that it didn’t sink too much.
Once cooled I dyed some fondant icing in red (well pinky red!) then covered the cake in warmed up jam and placed the rolled out icing on top.
Once covered I dyed some of fondant icing in black and cut out circles for the spots. I then stuck these onto the cake with a little water.
I kept some of the icing white to make the eyes.
As I had quite a bit of icing left over, I decided to make some little spotty cupcakes to to go with the cake.
I know it isn’t the greatest cake in the World but I made it and I can only improve from here! Right?!
