The Final Eeyore Cake

I wanted to write a quick post on the eeyore cake that I made for M&M's party yesterday, it's basically the same as the previous one I made with just a few additions.

Firstly I made 2 chocolate sponges like this one  and I added chocolate chips, 50g milk, 50g white and 50g of honeycomb pieces to each. 

These were placed in the fridge overnight and then carved, as described on the previous cake, and covered with icing. I also covered the cake board with icing so there was a nice finish surrounding the cake. 

Next day I started the details on the cake. First thing was to colour the icing for the nose and ears. I stuck the nose on and rolled out the icing for the ears. I first cut the purple icing, freehand, to create the shape. Using the first ear as the template I cut another purple piece and then 2 pink pieces. Placing one pink on top of a purple I trimmed around the pink to make it slightly smaller. I discovered it's better to do this than cut it before the pieces are together because as you pick them up the icing tends to stretch a little. 

Using purple icing I shaped the legs, these are pure blocks of icing, and tail. I cut a piece of pink into a long strip and folded it over to make the bow. Finally I stuck some white onto the face for the eyes. 

Without the details

The next step was to create all the details. I dyed some icing black and made little balls for the eyes. I then rolled small sausages for the hair on the head and tail. I also used thinner sausages for the eyebrows and nose details. 

I then coloured some icing blue, red, green and yellow for the ribbon detailing and the hat. To make the hat I shaped some blue icing into a cone shape for the hat. I then rolled out each of the colours into long strips. By holding one end and carefully twisting the icing you get the ribbon effect. I also cut thin strips for the hat. 

Finished cake

I was very happy with the final cake and got lots of comments on how nice the cake was. 

As I reminder, I am avaliable to take orders in the local area. At present (July 2013) I'm just charging for the ingredients, this cake was around £25. If you have an idea of what you'd like in a cake or even if you don't, please get in touch. 

M&M is ready for her party.. 

Eeyore Cake

We have a party coming up to welcome Mini Manley into the world. I wanted to design an impressive cake for her and what better to base it on than my favourite character Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. 

I was torn whether to do a 3D cake or make a cake with characters on top, in the end I decided to do a 3D cake. I look on google for some inspiration and came up with the following idea. This is the first practice cake. 

I designed 2 templates for the head and the body. These are to be cut from 2 rectangular cakes. It was important that these were well proportioned and the head size matched the body. The head was going to rest on the body at an angle therefore I needed a straight edge to rest it on. 

Templates, head at the top and body at the bottom. 

I made 2 chocolate and orange cakes in rectangular tins that I lined with greaseproof paper. 

Once the cakes had cooled, I used the templates to carefully cut out the shapes. I then rested them together to recheck my design. I realised that the head needed to be propped up so used some of the sponge cut offs to hold it in place. 

Checking the sponge is designed right.

I made some butter icing and spread this over the cake. Then put it in the fridge to set a little. I used flora this time so it was too running, for the real cake I'll use butter which will be more solid. 

I coloured some fondant icing and covered the cake in 2 parts. Head first and then the body. I careful placed the seam in a place that would be covered later on. 

Covered cake. 

I dyed some fondant pink and used this to make the nose, I'd already drawn the size on the template so I cut it according to that. I then dyed some more fondant the colour of the body and used this to make the legs. 

Added nose and legs.

Using more fondant I shaped some ears, sticking pink on top and folding them over. I dyed some fondant black and rolled this in "sausages" to create the hair. 

Hair and ears.

I then finished off the cake using some white and black fondant for the eyes. I wanted eeyore to be celebrated up so I used some fondant to make ribbons which were drapped over his back. I made these really bright colours and I think this adds some great colour to him.

The finished cake

I based this cake on an eeyore soft toy I had, so have photographed the 2 together. 

Front view of the cake. 

Close up of the back and the ribbons. 

Next to my inspiration