Sunday 29 July 2012

Iggle Piggle Cake

So this weekend marks a year since I decorated my first cake.
In case you forgot.

I made two last year. This one was sitting on our bread board. We couldn't make any sandwiches for 3 days!


My little boy turned 2 yesterday and his favourite character at the moment is Iggle Piggle from In the Night Garden. (It was Little Charley Bear right up until about 3 weeks ago, and that was the cake I was going to do, but he changed his mind all of a sudden).

Basically it is a vanilla sponge with jam and butter cream filling, covered in fondant icing coloured green. The Iggle Piggle design is done in Royal Icing with the flooding technique.


You can't really see in the picture that the fondant was pale green, but it was. I was a little disappointed to find the morning after I made it that he had a dent in his chin, but that was the only major fault with it; except maybe that there was a split in the fondant on one of the corners - I need to practise covering cakes with fondant but it's not something I get much opportunity to have a go at. 

The cake itself is actually two cakes with one edge cut straight and then pushed together. You could still see the join after it was iced but not majorly. I need to work on that it seems.

By the time I had finished the flooding, I had to do the writing but I was shattered by that point and getting somewhat bored, so it was a little rushed and therefore not that neat, but I still think it looks OK. Honest.


Iggle Piggle and Little Charley Bear are © and TM of the BBC