I had been given a Molly’s creature creator mould for my birthday in October and I now had the chance to use it!
Making cute animal cakes using buttercream flowers is something I love to do… See my flower hedgehog cake here.
So I thought I’d go along the same lines but using the cake mould.
I chose to make a Koala, they have had an awful time recently and I wanted to celebrate these gentle creatures.
Below are photo’s of baking and making this cute cake. If you want to create your own I give a list of some of the tools needed.
What you’ll need:
Cake batter (400g self raising flour, 150g flour, 400g butter, 400g sugar, 8 eggs, 2tsp vanilla)
Molly’s creature creator standing mould
2 or 3 nifty nozzles
Some standard size piping tips and piping bags
Food colouring
Buttercream (500g butter + 1kg icing sugar)
Sweet Stamps if you want to use similar writing
Rice krispie treats for arms and legs (85g rice krispies, 110g melted marshmellow)
Sugarpaste
Method
Grease your mould or use cake release spray. Fill with cake batter and cook at 140C. It took 1hr 40 mins to cook in my oven.
Allow to cool then trim off excess. Turn out of mould.
Use buttercream to stick the halves together and crumb coat.
Make rice krispie treats and mould into arms and legs. Cover with buttercream.
Use a circle cutter to cut ears from 5mm thick rolled out sugarpaste. Cut in half moon shape. Stick a cocktail stick or dry spaghetti stick into ear so it can be fixed to cake. Allow some time to dry.
Colour your buttercream and put into bags. Start piping large tips first randomly but fairly evenly over cake. Then stset to fill areas with smaller buttercream flowers.
Add the ears and cover with buttercream.
Finally add the fondant nose and eyes.
I usually cover my cake boards in fondant and use sweet stamps acrylic letters to emboss and paint name.
Enjoy
Little Peach Cakery 