Galaxy Birthday Cake

May 10, 2020

This cake came about because I originally thought that you needed an airbrush to make a galaxy cake. Then I saw someone paint it with paintbrushes and I realized that maybe I could make one, too. Even though I don't have an airbrush.

I started with a round peanut butter cake and peanut butter frosting.

Then I frosted the cake with peanut butter frosting.

I covered the cake with black fondant. This is a necessary step for a galaxy cake. Black needs to be the backdrop.

I trimmed off the excess fondant with a sharp knife.

I got out all the paintbrushes I have. I only use these brushes for cake decorating.

I'm also using quite a few food colors today: white, turquoise, baby blue, pink and purple.

I put some of each of the colors in my paint palette.

I added a few drops of alcohol to each of the dark colors.

But I knew they were too dark to show up on the black fondant. So, I added some white food coloring to all the dark colors.

I started out by painting a few splotches of color onto the black fondant and used a large, soft brush to spread the color around a bit and to add some texture.

I did this with all the colors I had except white. Don't worry, white will have its time to shine soon.

I decided to use a letter set that I have to put Happy Birthday onto the cake. You can put any message you want onto the cake.

I pressed the word happy into the cake.

And then birthday.

Then I used my finest brush to paint in the words with white food coloring.

Then I splattered all of my colors onto the cake. The reason I decided to do this was because after I had spread the colors around, they weren't very bright anymore. I love the small splashes of color that it left behind.