A friend of mine asked me to make her daughter a cake for her birthday party. Here is my homemade Spa cake!
I made a basic sheet cake and frosted it with white butter cream. I edged it with pink and sprinkled pink, edible glitter over the top. Then I made a 9″ round cake and trimmed it with a sharp knife to make the face.
I’ve seen cakes similar to this done with fondant, but I’m not keen on the flavor of fondant so I decided to try to do the same thing with butter cream. When you carve a cake, you are supposed to use a dense cake so that it holds the shape, but I like my cakes to be moist. My friend provided the cake mix, which was for a very tender cake. To stop the chocolate crumbs making the cake look horrible, I spread a thin layer of white frosting all over the cake and then put it in the fridge for an hour.
I mixed ivory and peach food coloring together to get the skin tone I wanted, and then covered the entire head with frosting. To get it smooth, I dipped a spatula in hot water and smoothed it over the cake. I built the nose up from a blob of frosting and again smoothed it with the spatula. I made the lips out of a small piece of fondant and painted it with some pink food coloring, diluted with water.
The cucumbers are two circles of fondant that I allowed to dry over night and then painted the edges with green food color. I then diluted a little of the green color, so that it was very thin. and washed it over the disc with a paintbrush.
The towel was two strips of fondant rolled thin and draped over her head.
I think it came out pretty well!
It looks so nice. I am amazed this is even homemade Its so awesome!
GREAT WORK GOOD EFFORT
Not only was it the most adorable cake ever, it tasted so good!
Can’t thank you enough!
It tasted amazing.
I would not have thought you made that, it looks store made!!!!