I have been waiting to show you my latest cake. A two tier cake, decorated with owls, hearts and flowers for a girls Christening party. The flavor combinations for the cakes were: Dark chocolate mud cake, raspberry mousse and chocolate ganache. Crumb coated with Italian Meringue Buttercream and covered with rolled fondant.
For the younger guests of the party. I baked some vanilla cupcakes with a spread of royal icing, sprinkles and fondant flowers. All matching the color scheme of the Christening cake.
I made the owls by using an egg shaped cookie cutter and used the pointy end of the egg cutter to cut off the top of the “egg/owl”. A small oval fondant cutter was used for the “belly”.
This methode could be easily be used, if you want to make fondant decorated sugar cookie owls for your next party.
Happy Caking!
Louise
Those owls are gorgeous! Your fondant is so smooth as well, the whole cake looks amazing.
Thank you 🙂
why cany i view any off your recipes etc.. also most pages on ur site wont open for me
Cake and cupcake are beautiful!!! All your stuff is though, so that is to be expected 🙂 Just a question though…what did you use to make the lettering on the fondant????
I used an alphabet lettering set from JEM cutters. You can both cut and emboss with them.
Thank you…I just bought a set from Wilton, which wasn’t so great. So I am on the lookout for something better!!!
This is such a helpful blog with lots of idea’s and helpful tips
waw,i really love your cake,it s nice and so”clean”,i mean you got the professionnal touch i m trying so hard to achieve!!
and the inside seems to be sooo good: great combo,miam!!!
i wanted to thank you for your amazing post about IMBC,it’s thanks to you that i know how to make it now,but i need some more practice on how to use it.
i use fondant on my cakes,and i would love to use mousse as a filling.i know that fondant and mousse is not easy to use together;
as for you,i can use IMBC to frost my cake under fondant? did you have some troubles with mousse and IMBC? it seems like they re gonna get messy!!
when you take your cake out of the fridge,the cake doesn t sink? because the mousse doesnt seem to be heavy enough to support the weight????
does it make sense?
i m sorry for my bad english,i speak french,and i m not sure to be clear !!
thank you very much for sharing all of your knowledge in cake decorating,your posts are a big help!!!
Mousse and IMBC works perfect together. I have never had problems covering a mousse filled cake, it is much worse if I use a regular buttercream. No the cake wont sink I pipe about 1-1/2 cm of filling in my cakes. As long as the mousse sets firm no problems at all.
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That is just amazing! I LOVE it!
Wonderful! What a sweet cake with unexpected pastel owls!
Hi luise,
Could you please let us know where did you use chcolate ganache and the link of your recipie if tehre is somewhere around your blog. I appreciate your work. Lovely!
Thank you,
Maria-Josephine
I used it as filling in the cake. I have not posted a recipe for it, sorry.
A big fan of yours! Always perfect colour combinations -soft and gentle. Love the owl!
Thanks for sharing with the world!
I’m in a OHMYGOD mood now.
What beautiful fondant work. My grandson would have loved the owl cake. XOXO
Whoooo? Whoooo? Came up with this clever idea? Oh, wait — it was yooouuu, yooouuu! 😉
What do you use to imprint the letters?
I used the alphabet set from JEM
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Adorable cake and I am DYING for that pink ruffled cake plate! Where did you get that?!?!?!?
Thank you. I got the cake stand from at shop here in Denmark.
Very cute ! Love the cupcakes and the little owls 😉
Have a nice day !
Delphine
Italian BC acts perfect under fondant, if you have a mousse filling in your cake. I have had difficulties using ganache if I had soft fillings in my cakes. I do use ganache too. It just depends on what’s inside the cake.
it’s darling! may I ask what cutters you used for the letters? love ’em!
It’s from JEM. You can use them like cutters and embossing too.
thank you! 🙂
Louise, oh my. The cake is darling, but the inside sounds amazing!! Thanks for sharing how to make the owls. What a great tip!
miss your posting like this one… simple but so cute! keep caking!
OMG Louise I love this cake… especially the faces of the wise little owls.
OMG too cute for words!!! I love it.
Un acabado perfecto…. me he quedado alucinada!!!
Thanks for sharing Louise – your colour combo is beautiful and the owls are perfection – so simple and so very effective! I love your work.
adorable!!
That cake is adorable!!! I was thinking a christening cake with owls??? Just adorable love the colors too. You have the best ideas.
it’s so beautiful
Beautiful cake
Darling! It’s always fun to see what you’re doing. : )
So adorable! Love the color palette.
aw this is so cute! I love owls 🙂
Beautiful!
That is really cute- they ust have loved it!
fantastisk kage, den smagte så lækkert og var så flot. Alle gæsterne roste den til skyerne:-)
I love your Owls. Thank you for the tips too.
Adorable! Love the color palette, too. 🙂