Sleepy cat

It was my friends 30th birthday last week and she was coming round to our house on saturday night for some drinks before heading out for a boogie to celebrate. She is cat mad and is hoping to get her very first cat in a month when she moves into a new house with a garden.  She had been telling me how she really wanted a white cat, so after my blog post a few weeks ago with the sleeping cat cake which inspired me, I decided to make her a sleeping white cat cake for her birthday.

As there were only a few of us heading out I made just the cat and not the cushion cake underneath as I thought that would be a bit too much cake for so few of us!  I started by baking two round victoria sponge cakes and left them to cool.

Next I added the bottom cake to the cake board and cut it into shape, I then added a layer of jam and buttercream I then added the top cake and carved it into a more cat like shape and added ears.

Next the cake was covered in a crumb coat of buttercream left to set and then another buttercream layer was added to smooth the cakes shape.  I then added rolled fondant in white over the top of the cake and smoothed into place.

After the icing was in place I decide it was all a bit too white for my liking, so added some grey patches to the cat.  I then iced the cake board to look like grass and added flowers.  Finally the cats features were drawn on with a food colouring pen and I added a tail, and two front paws (the back two supposedly would be tucked in under the cat). Finally I added some plastic white cocktail sticks as whiskers ET VOILA, one sleeping cat cake.

I was reasonably happy with the final cake although I think I made the mouth far too big and was thinking more cheshire cat than normal cat, but hey a happy cat isn't a bad thing and my friend seemed very happy with her cake when I gave it to her :)

It national baking week this week, so I hope everyone is making lots of scrummy baked goods to share, I am currently in the midst of baking a batch of 36 halloween themed cupcakes for an 'order' a family member has put in, I will share the results when they are finished. In my sugar craft course this week we are being shown how to make a 'whizzy the witch' for hallowee, so can't wait for that either, I will maybe run a blog post on this at a later date.