This is a simple Victoria sandwich with butter cream and jam filling then covered with white fondant icing. Iggle piggle is made from coloured fondant icing.
To make the blanket I rolled out a square of red fondant icing and wrapped a thin sausage of blue fondant around the edge then used a small stick to push the blue in to the red to give the stitched look. I then sandwiched the two colours between greaseproof paper and rolled with a rolling pin so the stitching looked more realistic.
The eyes and mouth are cut from licorice logs and like the 4 red bits on the head. I embedded them into the fondant. I put a ring of white fondant on the cake board before putting the cake on it and then used the purple icing to write the name and pipe round the base as well as a scattering of blue flowers around the edge and across the top where Iggle Piggle sits, to give it a slightly more girly edge.
Hi Ellie,
Am trying to re-create your cake, and just had a first bash at Piggle himself. Bought some ready-made icing and some blue food colouring and just dropped on a few drops and massaged in. Piggle looks marbled and the colour on yours looks so smooth – any technique you can share with me?
Thanks :-)
Ellen
To get rid of the marble you just need to keep kneading the icing. You can buy ready made but it works if you knead for ages
you can buy already coloured icing at a local asda or tescos :)