Lantern Cake for St. Martin

St. Martin is celebrated in November. It's a very German celebration that entails small children making lanterns out of paper, walking around the neighborhood singing St. Martin songs and getting candy for their trouble. I don't claim to understand the tradition, but it's kind of cute. So, I decided to make a lantern cake for St. Martin this year.

But we don't need a large cake, so we decided to make a mini cake. We had three layers of four-inch round funfetti cake. And some leftover Swiss meringue buttercream.

 I stacked the cake with buttercream between the layers.

 Then I carved the cake to be square and slanted the top layer to be more roof-like.

 Doesn't it look like a lantern already?

 Then I mixed yellow fondant with a bit of orange fondant.

 I frosted the cake and spent some time smoothing it carefully.

 But the yellow with a bit of orange was just what I was looking for. A soft, warm yellow.

Then I rolled it out and covered the sides of the cake with it.

 Then I covered the top of the cake with black fondant.

 I rolled black fondant into a thick snake and wrapped it around the bottom of the cake.

 Then I flattened some more black fondant fairly thick and cut them at an angle and glued it to the line between the yellow and the black fondant.

 I covered all four sides with it.

 Then I rolled another thick snake of black fondant and glued it to each of the corners and rolled one into a circle and glued it to the top.

 Then I used a fondant press mold to make a handful of black stars.

 I glued the stars to the side of the lantern.

 Finally, I cut out a sickle moon shape and glued it in the biggest gap left on the lantern.

 This lantern cake turned out adorable.

 It's a perfect design for St. Martin.

 The moon and stars design is classic St. Martin.

 Laterne, Laterne, Sonne, Mond und Sterne...

Watch us make the whole cake on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/trQORLR8VWI
Schaut zu wie wir die ganze Torte auf YouTube machen hier: https://youtu.be/yKovD5FUGS0