Star Thank You Cake

This vanilla sponge cake was made for a lady leaving work after many years with her company.

My client wanted a cake to say thank you for all her hard work that could be given to her at a leaving party.

She also wanted a star theme and the recipient liked blue.

I decided to go for a star shaped cake with pearl, sliver and shades of blue.

I started by making a template for the shape of the cake which I then laid  over the top of the cake and cut around.

Once I had done this I filled the cake with vanilla butter cream and then covered the cake with marzipan.

I covered the top of the cake with white fondant icing which I then sprayed with an edible pearl finish.

Once this was dry (only takes around 5 minutes) I covered the sides of the cake with blue fondant icing.

I did not want to cover the cake with one large piece of fondant for two reasons.

The first being that I wanted different colours on the top and side of the cake.

The other reason is that with a shape such as this cake the fondant would tear as it stretched to cover the angles of the star.

The next thing was to add the little stars along the join of the top and side covering.

I rolled out pieces of fondant of all the colours I wanted to use for the stars.

I dusted some rolled out white fondant with edible silver lustre dust.

I then cut out different sized and colour stars and attached them over the join using brushed on boiled water.

I attached larger stars around the base of the cake.

I also included some edible silver balls around the base of the cake.

Next I needed to make the stars shooting out of the top of the cake.

I began by marking the middle of the cake and inserting a flower pic into the cake.

A flower pic is a little container that can be inserted into a cake so that any wires in a floral display or the stars on wires for this cakecan go inot the cake without touching the sponge.

Flower pics come in different lengths and diameters.

I then made a doughnut shape with white fondant and shaped it into a slope on the outer edge.

The doughnut would sit around the hole where the wires were inserted into the flower pic.

Then it would be covered with stars and hide the base of the wires.

I cut various sizes of stars from rolled out fondant in shades of blue and silver.

I then inserted silver wires into the stars. I dipped the wires into piping gel which is a sticky gel used for water effects (see garden birthday cake) and helped the stars stay on the wires.

I left the stars on wires lying flat until the fondant had hardened.

I taped the wires together with thin floral tape. This comes in different colours and is used to tape wired sugar flowers together into a bouquet.

I filled the flower pic with white fondant. I did this because the packed in fondant would hold the wires in place firmly.

The last thing to do was to add the greeting in blue fondant on the top of the cake.

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Tags: Cake, Celebration, Party, Stars, Thank You