To get enough height for the owl I made four cakes. I started with lemon cream cheese cakes but they didn't rise much at all so I needed to make two chocolate and coconut cakes in a smaller size to gain extra height.
I started by doming one of the chocolate cakes for the base and then added the extra layers with a chocolate and almond buttercream filling.
To create feathers I cut out chocolate and pink circles and overlapped them around the owl using the pink for the owl's breast.
These were attached to the cake using royal icing. The pink ones were slipping - obviously too much icing - so I used toothpicks to keep them in place.
For the other owl features I used the chocolate fondant, some orange fondant and the pink fondant. I used two toothpicks each for the ears and the beak.
The eyes were created using white fondant, smaller black fondant circles and some chocolate fondant cut to create eyelashes.
Orange fondant stars trimmed slightly were used for the feet.
With the toothpicks removed from the owl breast I needed to cover the holes and so I used a small flower punch and finished them with green royal icing dots.
With the owl nearly complete, I set about finishing the cake board with a birthday message "Turning 30 is a hoot". I used chocolate fondant circles with smaller pink circles and pressed the Clikstix into the fondant.
The owl was placed on the board and leaves added to create some extra interest. These were coloured with green and brown petal dust and put in place with royal icing. A few of the extra pink flowers were scattered around the base.
Just before leaving for the party I used oil to gloss up the feathers and black eyes.
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