Daily Creativity: Shopkins cake

Yesterday’s Daily Creativity is a cake, a Shopkins Birthday Cake. My niece’s birthday is tomorrow, but we celebrated her birthday today. I couldn’t post this yesterday, because I was up there visiting. You can expect to see today’s Daily Creativity in a forthcoming post. I’ll be drawing it once I finish writing this.

She wanted a cake of her favorite Shopkins toy. What are Shopkins?  I don’t get them at all, but it seems to be a collectable toy series with some cartoons to go with it. Everything you can think of, is a person. Some of it is really weird to me, like the poor kiwi who has had someone cut into it.  I don’t always have to understand what they are into to make them a fun cake.  BTW, she and her guests loved the cake, and the parents too.

I’ve been making custom cakes since high school, improving my techniques as I go along. It’s a lot of fun and pretty creative when you have to figure out how to make something out of food. I once made a Leopard I tank out of cake and cookies.  One of the things that is important to me when I make my cakes is that they are as tasty as they are pretty. I worked for a baker who had beautiful cakes, but the flavor of the most complex cakes was nothing great. Don’t get me wrong, it tasted better than a lot of other fancy cake makers, some of the really expensive wedding cakes tasted like cardboard, but they weren’t like mine. My cakes are always moist and I aim for light feeling too. His couldn’t be moist, they would have crushed under the weight and they needed to be made ahead of time. Sometimes I have failures, I made a massive TARDIS cake for Dr Who’s 50th anniversary, and it caved in. I’ve learned from that, next time I’d make the TARDIS out of rice kristpy treats and build a cake around it.

This cake is a white cake with funfetti inside. I stacked it 5 layers high and made the layers gradient (or ombre) from pink to white. The frosting is mostly sugar, normally I prefer whipped cream, but not when I have to travel three hours with the cake. The fondant I made myself. I normally don’t like fondant in taste, that was until I started making my own. I make it with marshmallows and sugar, so it’s very sweet, but better than other fondant. They eyes are made from black licorice.