Twin's Sky Blue Cats and Dogs Cake

This is the second twin's cake. As you will see, it has nothing in common with the first. This girl wanted a vanilla and chocolate cake with strawberry jam as a filling. However, since I had used three layers instead of two for her sister's cake, I had to use three layers for hers, as well.

Her biggest request was that the cake be sky blue. That's her favorite color. She probably said it five times. Sky blue. I asked her if she likes something in particular, and she said cats and dogs. I felt like I could work with that.

I made two layers of vanilla cake and one of chocolate. I filled the cake with seedless strawberry jam and frosted it with vanilla American buttercream.

Then I mixed mostly white fondant with a bit of bright blue to create this sky blue color. It had some small flecks of blue because the blue fondant was a bit dried out, but I actually liked the character they added to keep it from being a flat color.
 I cut out all the pieces from rainbow fondant and glued them on the cake using edible glue.
 I added a log of sky blue to the bottom to clean up the contact between the cake and the cake board. Then I placed the girl's name and the number 8 on the cake.
 Then I placed the cat heads and the dog paws alternating around the cake making sure that no two of the same color were next to each other.
 I thought the cake looked lovely in the end. Lots of colors and cats and dogs with sky blue in the background.
 Happy Birthday, Sara!


 
For the YouTube video of this cake click here: https://youtu.be/TMPHp99VJrw
Für die deutsche Video, klickt hier: https://youtu.be/ugDNJUFQB_0

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