It was my friend’s 18th, so I decided to make her this owl birthday cake. It’s very simple to make, but looks very impressive (or so I like to think) and only took me a few hours.
First I baked a square cake (I made it quite small as I had a limited supply of fondant Icing), then cut out the shape of the owl. I covered it in chocolate butter icing, then placed a thin layer of brown colored icing over, then added, piece by piece, the feathers, which are just triangles of darker brown icing. I had no template for this, so just had to cut them by eye, but with the overlapping, and the wings covering the outside, it doesn’t really matter.
I then added the eyes, just circles of white icing, and painted the black iris with food coloring. I then added the face feathers around that, made the feet out of yellow icing, and as a last touch, added yellow glitter around the eyes. We were both very pleased with the results.
Lovely cake, would be great for my grandsons birthday. How did you make the face feathers?
Lovely cake, would be great for my grandsons birthday. How did you make the face feathers?