Can I please show off my cake I made?

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Ds wanted an iron man cake for his birthday today and I wanted to make him one.

Found a video that looked easy and thought “I could do that!”

Well...the video lied.! It was not easy.

But after lots of stress, I finally managed to make a pull away iron man cupcake cake.

Hope ds likes it

Cake makers....how the hell do you manage to make the buttercream so smooth with a pallette knife?!

I think it looks great!

Just eat it, it looks yum! I'm sure your son loved it. If not, I'll pm you my address for next year.

Thank you for your kind words

Oh it's brilliant, bloody well done. I bet he loves it!

I'm no buttercream expert but I use a warm palette knife - have a glass of hot water next to you and use that whenever the knife gets gummed up/ cools down. If you're feeling super fancy, have two knives on the go so you've always got one in the glass of hot water ready to take over. Hope that's some help with your next creation!

It looks great and he will love it because his mummy made it for him

Thank you!

I shall try the hot water trick next time too

It looks like a cake made with lots of love!

It looks brilliant, & it'll taste lovely because it's homemade

Superb effort, well done you!

Well done you! I can just about bake a sponge, but decorating it terrifies me. I am very impressed 😁

That's fab! Buttercream is the work of the devil and i don't think you'd ever get it very smooth going over cupcakes like that. You need to do a "crumb coat" with it lightly and then build it up in a couple of layers so it doesn't bring crumbs from the cake up with it.
Ready to roll icing covers a multitude of sins ;)

Well done you. Its really good.

@LagneyandCasey

It looks great and he will love it because his mummy made it for him

It's too early for this. Dust in my eye

Great colours and sculpting!

Awhhh. Good job! Very gently smooth a bit of kitchen paper over the top of it to even out the texture on the top! X

My kids would absolutely love that. I looks great!

Looks amazing ! I want a slice of cake now !

Your son will love that and bet it tastes great (I am a buttercream fiend!). Hope he has a lovely birthday :) I find the buttercream always spreads well if you heat the knife x

He loved it

I did a buttercream icing cake instead of fondant because he finds fondant too sweet. He won’t eat normal birthday cake and will even pick at it at parties just to be polite.

He probably did find this sweet too but nicer than fondant.

He wasn’t impressed by the messiness though

Still, chuffed to bits it worked out

Wonderful.

That looks amazing. Love the bold colours.

Dr Oekter food colouring

It’s a gel rather than a liquid and it’s extra strong colouring