Hit Me

This is a cake I hope my parents never find out about...

So after the unicorn cake, I had a ridiculous amount of offcuts and conveniently had two rectangular layers lying around. Waste not want not and all that. I hit up the hardware store and got some wooden dowels to form the legs, then I superglued them to the bottom of a board I cut to fit the cake. I topped the board with another dowel to hold the cake in place.

First I needed to do the legs. I covered the dowels with rice krispie treats, then rolled out strips of fondant to cover them. I scratched them up to make them look like raffia, then stacked the body. I covered the body in white fondant (to be painted later), scratched the seams and stitching in and added the belt. I painted all of that, then set about covering the backside

With that all done, I formed the head out of more rice krispie treats and covered it in yet more fondant. Then I made the crop by wrapping some gumpaste around a piece of wire and then glued it into place. The head was not keen on staying on, so that got stuck down with melted chocolate and a lot of hope. I added all the final details (making that chain was a bitch), tidied up some of the messy bits, added the tail, and I was good to go. The final detail was the ring in the ear. Gumpaste wouldn't stay in place, so I got a ring of wire and coated it in white chocolate.

Tasted fine to me, but the volume of cakes I've produced for this competition is starting to turn me off box mix. Methinks the next one will need to be from scratch