This week I made a horse birthday cake for one of my other "nieces" even though it was her birthday in January. I decided that everyone else was getting parties and cakes so I didn't want her to be left out. Salome likes horses so I decided to investigate whether I could make a horse cake and I found a link here.
For the horse I made 2 chocolate cakes, one round and one square and bake them in the oven. Once cooled I needed to cut them into the required shapes. From the round cake you have to cut off one side around 1/4 into the cake, this will later form the ears. Trim the bottom to form a straight edge. From the square cake you are cutting a shape for the neck and for the nose. All the templates can be found here.
Once I'd cut the cake and found a board big enough I was ready to decorate.
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| Sponge cut into the correct sizes and pieces |
For this I used chocolate frosting and just spread it over the top of the whole cake. I tried to shape it slightly around the bottom of the face to define the neck.
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| Iced with chocolate frosting and ready to go |
All of the added features were made with various sweets. Firstly the eye, this was an oreo cookie halved and placed on the horse with a minstrel in the middle stuck on with icing. The nostril is also a minstrel.
The reins were made with rainbow tape, this was placed across the nose and over the face.
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| Eye, nose and reins are added |
The hair was the probably the hardest bit on here, I chopped up a twirl and broke this into pieces. I then tried to place the larger pieces throughout the shape it with little pieces scattered over to add emphasis.
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| Finishing touches are the hair and the horse is complete |
Once again I was very pleased with the finished product and found this one very simple for the look the final effect created. Looking forwards to showing this to Salome.
