The custom birthday cake

After taking my birthday cake into work last Friday two of the ladies decided to commission me to make a cakes for events they have coming up. The first one is for a 62nd birthday on Friday and the other is for a 11 year old party in March.

The 62nd birthday cake is a three layer moist chocolate cake (made with my decadent chocolate cake recipe) with chocolate frosting between the layers and covered in a light green fondant with aqua blue accents.

Recipe:

Decadent Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

1 1/4 cups plain flour

1 cup castor sugar

1/2 cup cocoa powder

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

1 cup buttermilk

1 egg

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 150 degree celsius.
2. Place all dry ingredients into a mixing bowl and combine.
3. Combine all wet ingredients in a jug.
4. Pour wet ingredients in with dry ingredients and combine.
5. Place in premade cupcake tray, bake for 30 minutes or until cooked through (test by putting a skewer into the middle of the cake, if the skewer comes out clean it's ready)

For the icing I made prepared some light green fondant and aqua blue fondant. I evened all three cakes out and covered each cake in chocolate frosting.

Roll the green fondant out onto baking paper and smooth onto the cake, cutting off most of the excess and tucking the rest very carefully under the cake (if there is chocolate frosting under the fondant be extra careful not to get it on the outside of the cake). 

Roll out the aqua coloured fondant  onto baking paper and cut into a long ribbon shape. Smooth the aqua fondant around the bottom of the cake. Ball the aqua fondant back up and roll out onto the baking paper. Use three different sized circle cutters to cut out circle shapes and put onto the cake.

For this cake I then put a pre-prepared fondant bow onto the top of the cake and stenciled "Happy Birthday Chrys" onto the cake, iced it in blue and covered the letters in coloured sugar crystals.