i made more cake!

hey everyone,

 

the 15th marked my elder brothers birthday, it was a really good day, we had fun, ate way too much food, but best of all I got to whip out my mad baking skills again (just kidding).

I knew for ages what I wanted to do for his birthday cake, because secretly I wanted this so bad for myself.

my self and my brother, Liam are OBSESSED with a TV show called criminal minds, basically its like CSI, minus the lab and test tubes, plus 10x the action. its amazing!

I suggest you check it out on Netflix if you have it, you wont be disappointed.

 

 

the main cake is made up of three layers, and I just used a basic square sandwich tin that you would make a tray bake in.

I cooked everything off and let it cool for a good 3 hours, then iced the middle and carved the sides to make the cake one. you'll get what I mean if you attempt something like this.

I then followed up with a crum coat  of regular vanilla icing and lay my black fondant icing over the top which I rolled out, remember to always sprinkle icing sugar over your surface when working with fondant icing! its a huge help.

as you can see my base fondant isn't perfect but it doesn't matter, and until you try it yourself you will never fully under the struggle of laying fondant on a cake.

for the text I print out a picture of the logo and sized it up with the cake, then cut out each individual letter. then rolling out the matching fondant colour to the letter, I placed the template I made onto and simply cut around it. (believe me there was nothing simple about it). it took around three hours to get the letters all cut out. It was so small and tricky not just to cut out but also to lift and place on the cake. I stuck them all down with water and that's it!

and might I just add I didn't have a template for the 'fbi' bit at the bottom, free hand ladies and gents (holds for applause).

 

as for the cupcakes, we had leftover cake mix and thought why not?

so we have the main characters of the show which me and my mum had so much fun making, basically just laughing at each others drawings. my personal favourites are Morgan and Rossi.

also take a guess at his age, there's a big clue in there! leave your guesses below.

we iced the cupcakes with bog-standard icing and then drew them on with icing tubes.

it was a lot of fun, like seriously, so many giggles!

tell me what you think of the cake cause id love to know,

kisses xoxo