This is a cake with an elephant on top, need i say more?

Howdy

So this week i made my first ever cake that wasnt for friends, family, or someone who felt sorry for me so let me make them a cake for money- HELL YES.  However, it also feels like quite a bit more pressure since theres 100% no room for error, i want to impress, and the only way to do that is to pump out some badass and as near to utterly perfect as humanly possible cakes.  Thankfully again the brief was quite fun and there was plently of opportunity to experiment and make something fabulous.  The cake was for a ladies birthday, and i was told she 'likes purple, elephants and is a bit of a hippie'- to quote. (im sorry if you're reading this but your friend called you a hippie). 

I won't even attempt to explain the thought process behind this 'masterpiece', one minute i was making a sophisticated birthday cake fit for a lady and the next i had glitter on my face and an edible elephant the size of a tennis ball sat on my kitchen counter.  So enough said, here it is...

1) The finished project 2) since i dont have any business cards an actual card will do :) 3) A tower of sponge cake 4) a lil close up 5) this took me 2 hours 6) and then i doused it in glitter.

The whole cake is made up of four layers with buttercream (in a smashing shade of purple) in between followed by a crumb coating of said buttercream and a layer of white ready roll icing.  I had such a hard time getting the icing to be purple, the colour i wanted was a bright violet but no matter how much sodding food colouring i put in i got lilac- oh well, c'est la vie.  I think it looks cool how the layers of icing are overlapping, makes it slightly more interesting, and i'm even more impressed that this was totes by accident.  afterwards i brushed some glitter here and there, added some silver sparkly ribbon and voila! 

 

I am reasonably pleased with it, except i do think it looks quite like a 'Welcome to the world baby *insertnamehere*' cake- but i'm trying not to think about it, i think it's the lilac.

Thank you ever so much for taking the time out to read my little post- it means the world :)

Louise xx