My 30th Birthday - dog cake

APRIL 2011

Considering I go on about Hamish my Labrador so much at work I thought I should do a cake of him for my birthday.

I made a smallish cake using Mum's pudding tin and then another 2 small round cake tins. The pudding tin was vanilla/chocolate swirl cake using packet mixes and the larger (but still small) cakes were vanilla only.

I put the separate cakes on top of each other and carved out a semi-circle to make the puppy body.

I froze these and then pulled them out a few days later to dirty ice with buttercream (not made with shortening this time). I used my turntable which made things so much easier!

I put the cakes in the fridge to harden up and started to colour some fondant to a tan colour - same as Hamish :-) It took a long time to colour 1kg of fondant!!!!

I finally got there and rolled out the fondant to cover both cakes. I then made the paws and tail in the same colour. The tail needed three toothpicks in it to keep it upright.

I coloured some more fondant a darker brown to add the ears and snout. I needed to enhance the eye area so I added some eyebrows at the last minute too.

I used pre coloured black fondant for the nose and eyes.

I coloured white fondant with blue to create the colour and added some detail for studs.