Sarah's party theme was 'come with your face painted'so it was only fitting she have a cake that represented that same theme.
I made a single tier pound cake with chocolate fudge filling.
For the butter cream I used Sno Creme which provides a much whiter base rather than using butter and it being yellow in colour. Love this and will use it every time now.
I started a couple of weeks in advance making all the accessories. I used pre-made modelling paste to form the brush, bristles, paint circles, the stars and also formed some bottles.
I then found a font I liked and cut out the numbers with wire through them so they would stand up on the cake. Turns out they were a bit too heavy so I needed to put some reinforcement behind them on the day.
I used wire for the stars which probably wasn't thick enough as the stars were a bit too heavy when on the cake.
I searched for edible glitter and all that is around is gelatin so it wasn't the sparkle I wanted. Cake shops also sell glitter that is non toxic but not technically edible. I used this on parts that didn't have to be eaten.
To complete the paint palette I used black fondant and pressed the modelling paste circles into it. I then used gel to make it look like wet paint.
For the bottles, I painted them in edible silver paint and made fondant labels.
For the paint brush, I used non toxix crayon and mixed a brown colour. I painted a small amount in silver and finished with some narrow black strips of fondant.
The entire cake was covered in ivory fondant. I considered zebra print but was concerned it might look too 'busy.
To finish the cake's face paint theme I added freehand splashes of fondant with lustre dust.
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