I was asked to create a
cake for my colleague's daughter who was turning three and loved Art
Attack and Mister Maker. I jumped at the cake at making an art
themed cake, knowing that it'd be a lot of fun to make. Organised
chaos sprung to mind!
I was told that her
favourite colours were pink and purple - a little girl after my own
heart! So I decided to cover the cake in a deep pink colour, with the
theme of purple elsewhere. I knew that I wanted the cake to have an
artist palette, paintbrushes and paint tubes on the top of the cake.
I used and coloured royal
icing for the paint on the palette. I was so pleased with how paint
like it actually looked, especially with the squeezed out effect with
the peaks. I dipped the end of the paintbrushes in the royal icing
that left a really realistic look of paint – looking a little messy
and thick just like the real thing. The palette was made purely of
flower paste to ensure that it dried hard.
The paintbrushes were
constructed in three parts. A long sausage shape made out of flower
paste with a small amount of sugar paste mixed in. A small rectangle
for the metal between the handle and brush and a tear shaped tip for
the brush. I coloured the handle with some caramel colouring and
once air dried for a short while, I scored it to give the affect of
wood grain. To make it look more like wood grain, I made a thin
brown paint (water consistency) so it could be painted on to give a
varnish affect. It worked as desired as the scored areas were darker
and trapped the colouring beautifully.
The picture stood at the
side was one of my favourite elements and was inspired by a cake I
found online. It was made purely of flower paste and I painted the
background of the picture first and then sketched the family
afterwards. I thought that this was a endearing addition to the
cake, especially because I drew it like I thought a three year old
would and ensured that it was a representation of the family the cake
was for.
I marbled some of the
sugar paste decorations to give it a swirled look, rather than a
block colour. I used a swirly embossing sheet and a quilt affect
embossing tool to create some the decorations. I loved how they
looked once placed on the cake. I think it added just enough texture
and creative edge for it to be both girly and arty.
This looks amazing! Really smooth finish. I tried to do an easel cake last month but only used buttercream, icing makes so much sense!
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I love the cake and am loving the new blog design. Very clever.
ReplyDeleteThanks Paula! Joe is very clever isn't he? :-) xxx
DeleteWhat a great idea! I love especially picture standing at side. Girl must have loved her cake.
ReplyDeleteLove the tubes of paint - really clever design
ReplyDeleteHow lovely is this cake!! I'm sure your colleague and her daughter loved it. I particularly like the little canvas with the family on it :-)
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