November 7, 2010

Quintbelles Insider: 3D Cat


We rarely get to do 3D cakes so it's exciting when there are requests for them! Chloe, the birthday girl, loves cats! After looking at several options, we decided on an orange tabby cat.

Her mommy doesn't like fondant so we agreed to use marshmallow icing instead --something we rarely do too! Double excitement for us. We love trying new things, you know :)

And so, here is the cat cake.

Tadah!

So here's how we made this. Start by baking an 8" round cake, a 8" bowl cake for the body and a 4" cake for the head. Crumb coat the cake as below.
Crumbcoated

Then cover the cake with the orange marshmallow icing. Since cat fur isn't actually very smooth, we didn't think it was important to smoothen out the icing all too much. After which, we put in the details-- paws, eyes, nose, tail, whiskers!

Coated

Finally, the finished cake!

The cat looked like its frozen in surprise so we decided to put eyebrows!
We were told that the birthday girl liked that cake! So, yey for us! :)

1 comment:

Catherine said...

the birthday girl DID love her cake! thank you for fulfilling a 3 y.o.'s birthday wish for an orange cat cake. and for making me the best mommy in the world. :D