Sleeping Beauty Birthday Cake
This was a great cake to make. It was for a little girl on her 5th birthday.
My little boy Dexter usually wants as many super heroes as its possible to fit onto one cake and definitely no pink!
I like making girlie pink cakes with glitter on them. I also like making models. When I had to make a fondant model for the first time I must admit that I wasn’t looking forward to it.
Now I love doing them whether its fairies or teddy bears of a giraffe. They are deceptively simple to make and look really effective.
This one was a chocolate sponge cake filled with choccy butter cream and covered with fondant.
The head board and foot board were made using specialist modelling paste which sets very hard but remains soft enought to cut and eat.
I made the diamond pattern on the quilt with a diamond shape embosser which I then ran over with a serrated roller.
Sleeping beauty was made with fondant. When I am making a model that does not need to be very sturdy or is supported by something (in this case the bed) there is no need to use modelling paste.
It is not necessary to make her whole body as the dress goes over it. I made a small sausage shape with purple fondant for the bodice of her dress and a flesh coloured ball for her head.
I made a dip in the top of the sausage shape with my thumb and them stuck a rolled out circle of flesh coloured fondant in the dip. I put the bodice in place on top of the bed and then stuck her head in place. I put the details onto her face.
The next thing to do was make a couple of long thin sausage shapes for her legs and put them in place on the bed. I made a skirt with rolled out purple fondant. I gathered it up and laid in over her legs, securing it with brushed on water.
I made her hair using my clay gun - which has never had clay in it I must say. What it does do is push fondant through a tube under pressure.
Various discs can be placed at the end of the tube with different cut out shapes in it. As the fondant is pushed through the disc the shape is formed.
I used a disc with lots of little holes which form long, very thin strands which can be cut and used to make hair.
Nikki Greaves
Hi Amanda
We just wanted to say a huge thank you for our “Sleeping Beauty” cake! We were absolutely gobsmacked when it arrived this morning before 8.00am and when we showed it to Suzi and her sisters it blew our world away! We are speechless at the effort and detail that you went into and cannot thank you enough for making today’s party go from a special 5th birthday to a phenomenal 5th birthday!
We couldn’t pass the cake off as our own as when I tried our eldest daughter said “Mum the cake was delivered today before breakfast”! I got very caught out! We happily gave out your website address for other mums to try to claim that they could make cakes as well as you, but we know from our “Sleeping Beauty” cake that they don’t stand a chance!
Thank you again - ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!
Dianne Karen P.Gadia
It\’s so beautiful i like it because i like also sleeping beauty.
Em Greig
This is a marvelous cake. I was browsing for ideas as to what to make for my birthday cake, and came across this. Anyway the idea inspired me. I made mine to look alot more \"enchanted\", with roses, and brambles trailing over the bed and the plate, and a darker richer colour palete, (and I have to admit to making a brunete sleeping beauty, deffo not quite according to the story), but the whole thing turned out splendedly. This was my first time making people out of fondant, as I have only done animals and flowers before and your instructions were very comprihensive and helpful. I shall defo be looking at your cakes for ideas again. Thankyou.