Creating a Dream Cake

One of our favourite challenges was our Snow White Cake. It was created for a 21st Disney themed birthday party and the birthday girl was going to be dressed as Snow White. We were given free reign over the design of the cake, the only request was that the cake needed to be made out of carrot cake.

A vanilla sponge with a core of strawberry jam iced with red sugarpaste

We contemplated various cake designs, a fairy tale castle seemed too obvious so we thought it would be a good idea to create a giant poisonous apple to compliment the birthday girls costume. We set out by creating a very, very rough sketch which involved a rectangle and a circle and then built the design around this.

Here's Phoebe. We painted the apple effect with red food colouring and edible gold dust, before leaving it overnight to dry.
 

The base of the cake was a delicious carrot cake, iced in pale green sugarpaste and decorated with edible leaves. The leaves were cut out, printed with a veiner and moulded before leaving overnight to harden. We then decorated the leaves with green, gold and silver dust. The vines were painted on to the cake with a mixture of green food colouring and vodka and then edged in gold.

A mixture of edible glue and sugarpaste helps the leaves to stay stuck on to the cake.

 Here's Catherine, painting the apple. Once the colour had dried we glazed the apple with sieved jam and then added some sparkle with a touch of edible red glitter.

A sugarpaste stalk and a flower paste leaf completed the apple and it was carefully lifted on to the base of the cake and secured with dowel rods to ensure the cake did not sink. A flourish of edible fairy dust added a magical shimmer to the completed cake.

 
Here we are with the cake...all ready for the ball!

Our cake took centre stage on the buffet table at the party.