This was a fun experience. A friend was completing his medical specialist training and his wife wanted to make him a special cake. She made the cake at home and brought it over to decorate. It was a very yummy caramel mud cake, delicious! We started with a crumb coat, into the fridge and smoothed out the surface. Then added some pink to the neck area, laid blue fondant over the whole cake and cut out some of the blue fondant to reveal the 'skin'. Then for fun we made a surgical mask and let it set over a balloon. And finally to make the various medical items on the cake. This was fun as well. It was the first time I was able to make a fondant cake with someone and very exciting to see someones confidence grow over a short window :)
Finally one of my children asked for a Starwars cake! I nearly had a Storm Trooper request a few years ago but he changed his mind. He asked for a truck cake then a Star Wars cake and finally settled on a transport cake from Star Wars, the legendary Millennium Falcon. Once again used the go-to choc mud cake recipe. It's great for carving. https://dadmakingcakes.blogspot.com/2019/07/chocolate-mud-cake-super-easy-yummy-and.html Found schematics/plans online and resized them on my computer until they fit the cake tins I was using. Decided to make one circular cake and one square cake. For a change I wouldn't use baking strips ( https://dadmakingcakes.blogspot.com/2017/08/how-to-bake-cake-with-flat-top.html ) on the circle pan as I wanted the cake to dome like the Millenium Falcon does. Let the cake cool then cut the pieces using the template Once I was happy with the measurements it was time to stick all the pieces together using icing and crumb coat the