Humphrey Cake

My mum is a big fan of Humphrey the Elephant so this year for her birthday cake I decided to try and make a 3D Humphrey cake. She requested a carrot cake, despite this being a really difficult cake to shape I decided to give it a go. 

I made a large rectangular cake using 3 times the recipe found here. I used images from the internet to create a large A4 template which I cut around once the cake was cool. 

Shaped Humphrey

I then covered the cake in butter icing and grey sugar paste making sure to get the icing into all the corners so the shape was maintained. 

Iced

I wanted Humphrey to be wearing strippy dungarees in order to give him a little more colour. To do this I placed some white strips of icing on top of  some yellow icing and rolled these together to create a smooth finish. 

Creating striped icing.

Using this icing I placed it on to the cake and shaped it. I folded over the legs to form the bottom of the trousers. Using black sugar paste I rolled some sausages and use them to provide some of the detailing. Finally I made a balloon for Humphrey to hold. 

Finished Humphrey Cake

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Camera Cake

I was asked to make a camera cake for a birthday this week. I wanted to make a 3D cake in the style of the birthday boy's camera, so I found out the model number and copied this from pictures. I was asked to make it out of carrot cake so eventually decided on this recipe. I made double the recipe and poured this into 2 rectangular and baked it until the skewer came out clean. 

One of the rectangles formed the base of the camera. Using the other I cut out 2 circles, these were the lense and a smaller rectangle for the front side. Finally I cut out small squares as the flash. 

Shaped cake

I then covered the cake in butter icing. This was more challenging that I thought as the carrot cake is very crumbly. I had to spread it really carefully and make sure the cake structure held together. 

Butter iced cake

I bought some icing for the cake, black, it's requires a lot of colouring to white to black so it was much easier to do this. I also wanted to know whether it was significantly different using quality icing rather than store own icing. I rolled it out and placed it on the cake, store own icing usually falls to pieces at this stage but this black icing held beautifully. My conclusion is that it's much better and I'll probably try and buy this icing in the future, Regalice. 

Black iced cake

I then used some red icing and white icing to define various sections. 

Finished cake, top view.

Finished cake, side view. 

I was pleased with the finished result and hopefully the birthday boy will be too. 

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