Birthday Cake of Awesomeness (TM)

[ganimede]

Somehow it was decided that I would be making my sister a cake for her birthday which was on Sunday just gone. I wanted to make something suitably awesome and was discussing it with my mother; she suggested a cake she'd made in the past - a marbled cake made with two different colours of cake. That reminded me of the chequerboard cake which she'd

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[ftmichael]

Ooooo, that looks fantastic! You did an amazing job!

[meathiel]

That cake looks really good - the checkered look seems to be quite easy when you know what you're doing. I didn't know yet how to do it ...
I haven't worked with fondant yet either.

[ganimede]

It's one of those cakes that looks really difficult but is quite a simple idea. You can have a go at it yourself now that you can learn from my attempt here ;)

Fondant is a pain, and it didn't help that the packaging had no instructions or advice on how to work with it. I think I'll stick to normal icing next time.

[sullen_hearts]

Wow, it looks fab! Lucky sister!

[ganimede]

Well, what would you expect when she has me as a brother? :P

[heikki_cheren]

It looks amazing! No wonder she was so pleased ! ;)

[hobbitblue]

That is seriously awesome, wow... and so clever with the checkerboard effect, I'm glad you've got photos of the stages or Id be scratching my head trying to work out how on earth you'd done it.. love hte pink icing and the butterflies, that is just so professional looking, mighty tasty too I should think! That's one lucky sister for sure :) Are you putting your version plus in-process pics and hints on a Pinteret thing?

[ganimede]

It's quite a simple idea really but how you go about it is definitely key to making it work well. The butterflies are wafer things from Dr Oetker, I spotted them in Sainsbury's a few weeks ago.

I hadn't considered putting it on Pinterest but there's so many variations on this cake on there already, I don't think there needs to be one more!

[hobbitblue]

Still v clever and I impressed :)

I clicked through to Pinterest from your link and I htink yours looks better than a lot of them :)