So my daughter will be 1 next march and yes I know it is miles away but I get excited about the thought of making her first cake.
Trying to think up some ideas has made me think about the effort I went too for my sons first birthday cake which was really one of the first proper cakes I have ever made and as the title of this blog suggests it was based on the hungry Caterpillar.
I even did a trial run before hand which was a really good idea as it changed a lot of my design for the finished product by showing me what did and did not work,
Firstly I used a bunt tin for the body
I Cut this in half and then I cut one of those half's into half giving me 3 pieces, I turned the two smaller pieces around and popped them on to either end to create the body.
I then used a standard sponge tin which I cut the head shape from.
I warmed a little strawberry jam and covered all the sponge to make a kind of glue to help hold the icing in place.
Now in my trial run I used white icing and tried to paint the colours on but this just didn't work, the colours looked weak and washed out and didn't give me the result I wanted.
So here I cheated a bit by using pre coloured ready to roll icing from the Craft Company
The delivery was amazingly fast which was great as I was now cutting it close for time
I bought two different shades of green for the body, Red for the head and yellow and black for the eyes and detailing.
It was defiantly the best decision as the colours were so bold and the cake looked amazing.
I cut the greens in to triangles and alternated them down the body. Covered the head in the red icing and and rolled the black out to make antenna, eyes and feet.
Finishing it all off on a white board which i stuck different coloured smarties to the bottom of to make the base and to be in keeping with the theme.
Here is the finished result
I think i now have a lot to live up too for my daughters 1st birthday and will defiantly be using the craft company to help me to sneakily cut some corners and give me ideas.
Here is a picture of my little boy, with the help of his friend blowing out his candle.
Craft Company
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