So in part
1 I've showed you how to make the Lillifee figure, now its time for the actual
cake. You will need to cakes for this, one in a normal spring form and one in a
ring cake (Gugelhupf). They should both have a similar diameter. We've chosen a
chocolate sponge cake for this project.
Divide the
round cake into two pieces. If you think it's not high enough, you'll have to
bake another ;) Normally one well risen cake is enough.
Place the ring cake on
top of your cake and start trimming the edges until its a smooth transition
from the top to the bottom cake.
When your done with this, cut the ring cake
horizontally like two times for the filling.
We've filled
this cake with a mascarpone cherry cream and used some pickled cherries too.
Just make sure to drain them thoroughly before. I couldn't find a suitable
recipe so I've just tried out a bit.
250g mascarpone
6 Tbsp
cherry juice
2 Tbsp
powdered sugar
200g
whipped cream
2 packages
vanilla sugar
Pickled
cherries
Mix the
mascarpone with the cherry juice and add the powdered sugar. Taste it, and if
you find it not sweet enough, put some more in. Just for the looks, mix in a
bit of pink food color (e.g. past color by SugarFlair). Start whisking the
cream and add the vanilla sugar once it starts to become stiffer. Now fold in the
whipped cream into the mascarpone mixture.
For the
sake of cleanliness I've cut a baking sheet in half and shoved it under the
cake. That way you can easily pull it out later.
Remember to
leave out the middle bit of the last layer of cake because this is where you
will place the surprise.
Continue
with stacking the ring cake, alternating between cake and filling. We've
eventually left out one layer because it would have been too high.
Its time
now to ice the cake with ganache (400g milk chocolate and 200g cream).
Also cover
the inside of the cake with ganache.
Kids love
surprises.
And now it's
finally time for the actual dress. Pull out the baking sheet and place your
cake on a cake board. In a first step we placed the underskirt on the cake. Roll
out a stretch of white fondant, eventually allowing for a ribbon of 5cm in
width and 1m in length. We used this little ribbon cutter (by fmm). Make sure
to use corn starch to prevent the fondant from sticking to your working place.
Place the
ribbon around the base of your cake, overlapping every inch or so. In case your
ribbon was too short, simply cut out another and place the start of that one
under one of the creases.
For the
cake board we colored fondant with mint green from SugarFlair.
This is how
your cake should look by now.
Next, roll
out a BIG sheet of pink fondant (color of her top) and cut out a large square.
Cut in half.
Now place
the rectangle onto your cake in a way that you create nice long creases running
down the dress. Make sure to lift it high enough to still have the underskirt
visible.
This is how
it looks from the top. Don't worry about all that fondant in the middle. You
will cut this off later on.
Take the
second rectangle and do the same. Start by placing the beginning under one of
the creases and finish doing the same. It should look like one piece in the
end.
Here you
can see the frill, and also that the dress is higher on the left side than the
right side. Its a bit tricky to get it even, but when you check carefully while
placing the dress then you can avoid this.
Now its
time for details. On my template, Lillifee has green leafe-like segments.
These six
pieces go on the cake like this. They should stick on their own, if not just
use some sugar glue.
As for the
roses, roll out a thin sheet of fondant...
... fold in
half...
...and roll
up to get a rose.
Cut off
excess fondant...
...and roll
the end between your index fingers to the shape of a cone.
Again, cut
off the excess.
We used
spaghetti and sugar glue to attach the roses to the dress. You may also use non
edible aids like wire or toothpick, but if kids are going to eat the cake then
rather use edible stuff.
On both
sides of the rose you want to attach - rather before you put the rose in place
- two little leaves.
In between
the green segments you place six smaller pink pieces of fondant. Three of them
have pink dots which you cut out with a piping tip.
Take a
chunk of fondant and shape it to fit in the opening. That way the figure will
be fixed and won't move that much.
Place it in
the opening and press down gently.
Place the
figure on our cake. (No, those are not my strong forearms, but Mr. B`s ;) )
Form a
sausage of fondant and place around Lillifee's hips. This is just to fill up
that hollow in there.
To cover up
the transition, create a "lace". Cut out a circle and then use the
back of a piping tip to cut out half circles. Go easy on this one because it's
easy to cut out too much.
Make a cut
on one side halfway through your lace and place it around her hips. A small
green ribbon will serve as a waist belt.
I've used
yellow fondant for the letters. If your fondant dries quickly and is not too
elastic, it doesn't have to be gum paste. Cover with sugar glue and place in
golden glitter powder. Cover it from all sides. The glitter powder from Rainbow
Dust is edible and available in all kinds of different colors. Use a muffin
mold for this purpose. It's easy to contain excess, place it back in the
container and reuse it the next time.
It's hard to
see on this picture because it was already night, but it looked amazing.
I've built a
simple mount for the candles. Roll some balls out of green fondant and cut out
pink flowers. Use sugar glue to attach to the balls. Now put the candles on
top.
The letters
and the candles go on the cake board... done!
Here's a
picture from the top.
This is
just one possible way to make this cake. I'm looking forward to seeing your
ideas.
by Christina
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