I
have been absent for a while, baking and decorating a number of cakes and
treats so far this year. The first I would love to share with you is this
magical wizard mad hatter cake I made in
January for a birthday celebration.
I
just love the wizard, he is a happy magical wizard and certainly not a nasty
evil one. The birthday girl is into many magical things like rune stones, tarot
cards and angels wings and loves purple, so this was the perfect crazy cake for
her.
For
the wizard I had a bit of help from Debbie Brown's enchanting magical cakes,
and for the mad hatter I had help from Lindy Smith's cakes to inspire and desire. The lovely purple was achieved by mixing red and blue paste colours
into white fondant, though it is a big effort and I would suggest at least
starting with a premade purple and tweaking the colour from there. At least my biceps
had a workout!
The
angels wings I made by printing out a wing template to an appropriate size,
cutting in half into the 2 wings and curving florist wire to the shapes with
excess to insert into straws in the cake. I then rolled out gumpaste very
thinly and cut out 4 wings with the template to cover both sides of the 2 wires.
These are glued together onto the wire. The entire surface is covered with "feathers"
which I made using a leaf cutter and veiner, then once dry are dusted with
super pearl dust to give a lovely shimmer.
