Colour Block Novelty Cake Ideas

Occasion Cakes

Train Christening Cake

Train Christening Cake

Basic shape: A basic square fruit cake. Sometimes it is useful to build up the corners of the cake with marzipan to make them squarer. This is a better base for the icing.

Decor: This cake was iced with blue fondant icing and decorated using a variety of nozzles and piped royal icing.The child's date of birth or christening date can be added.

Ingredients

Fruit cake
Marzipan
Fondant icing to cover
Honey or similar to adhere icing to cake
Food colouring
Royal icing to pipe
Ready made silver storks


Golden Wedding Cake

Golden Wedding Cake

Basic shape: A basic round fruit cake. Sometimes it is useful to build up the corners of the cake with marzipan to make them squarer. This is a better base for the icing.

Decor: This cake was iced with white fondant icing and decorated using a star nozzle around the base. The flowers were made from fondant icing.

Ingredients

Fruit cake
Marzipan
Fondant icing to cover
Honey or similar to adhere icing to cake
Food colouring
Royal icing to pipe
Ready made gold 50s
Ribbon (two types)

21st Birthday Cake

21st Birthday Cake

Basic shape: A selection of slab sponge cakes put together with butter cream icing

Decor: This cake was iced with white and navy fondant icing and decorated using a star nozzle for the icing around the base of each layer. The crazy paving style icing on the middle layer was done with a single round hole nozzle of the smallest size and an unsteady hand! The flowers were made from fondant icing. The wires were purchased from a cake decorating shop and the beads from a necklace were glued to them with pva.

Ingredients

Sponge cake slabs
Fondant icing to cover
Honey or similar to adhere icing to cake
Food colouring
Royal icing to pipe
Small pale blue silk flowers
Ribbon
Present wrapping ribbon to curl for the top



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