This is Anna’s 3rd Birthday Cake
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| Hello Kitty Ballerina |
Since October (that is when her brother turned one and her
interest in birthdays was reignited), she has asked me to make her a Hello
Kitty Ballerina cake for her birthday in ‘fevurrarry’ :)
I absolutely love making cakes and have a new found passion for decorating
them. Since having my kiddies I have been given the opportunity to release
these creative juices. I have kept this
simple and maintained that I would not make a cake that required me to copy a caricature.
I believed that the pressure would be too great and if I missed the mark, it
will look like a botched attempt. (I guess this just highlights a side of me I
forget exists – I can be anally
retentive. Anyhoo-hoo, despite my vow not to do a
caricature, the request was made and I accepted.
I was originally going to try and carve the Hello Kitty head
and shape it myself, but Hugo (DH) suggested looking for a mould online. I am
blessed to have a creative consultant (DH) living with me. I found one and I bought
it.
I had to ‘think quick’ on the skirt plan. I had brought some
fairy floss to make it with, but when I tested it on the morning, the sugar
started to melt within 20mins of being exposed to the air. While tidying up the
kids room I saw Anna’s feather bower, I was inspired and I hooked out a hand
full to make the skirt! The rest was fairly straight forward. Almond MM’s for
the eyes (brown ones painted black with food colouring), almond MM for the nose
(bought a few packets to get the right shape and size.) Wand was a goodie bag
gift from a friends party and the rest is really just rollout icing. The big tip I would give to anyone who wants to
give this ago, is to slice off the arm – decorate the whole cake, place the
accessories and then replace the arm so that the skirt looks like it is continuous
and that is because it really is.
Here are the cakes I made to support the Hello Kitty. As big
as the Hello Kitty was, my chief potion controller (DH), advised we needed more cake to feed the party. He was right.
We had an amazing afternoon at the creek – I wish our family
from South Africa could have shared it with us.
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