Please help me make a full moon cake

[onetiredmummy]

Never been on this section of the board before so am hoping this is the place for help. If I google for ideas it just brings me up the Chinese moon cakes or a circular cake which is all moon & I want a bit of sky as well...

I'm average at cake decorating, I make a damn fine actual sponge cake :) but when it comes to decorating them it can be a bit hit or miss.

What I want is a cake for my BIL, he is obsessed likes werewolves & full moon so I thought a full moon cake would be good. So if I start with a bog standard square or circle sandwich cake, then cover it in black fondant to make the night sky, I can use silver balls or suchlike for stars.

Now how do I do a full moon? Do I try a spherical one, like a giant cake pop & fondant ice it in white then somehow paint craters on, do I do an iced flat moon on top of the black icing & try to paint craters on it there?

Any ideas are good, please give me some :)

How about this (minus rocket and plus wolf, maybe?)

Thanks stealthsquiggle, that cake is fab :)

I would refer making a square cake and do a raised design. You could still do details but it would be a lot finer. cakecentral.com/gallery/2095148/twilight-team-jacob-cake
You may have a nightmare keeping the cake balanced.
Even with with a standard cake shape you ould use 3d shapes and use thick florist wire to hold them up?

There are a few ideas here. Also this. HTH.

Thanks bacon & ggm, these are great :)

sorry, OP - a link with no clues how to do it is not useful, really. If you chose to go the spherical cake route, then you would need to hire (or buy) a spherical cake tin like this. After that, it is pretty easy really (the hard bit of that one was the rocket!) - cover in moon-coloured sugarpaste and disguise the mistakes enhance with craters (I used a ball tool but I am sure you could improvise) and model a wolf to howl at it.

I love some of the dark blue background flat ones as well, though....

Just looking at the cake tin on Amazon stealth & the reviewers say pyrex bowls can also be used, what a fab idea!

I loved the dark blue glittery one, def thinking of that instead of a black sky :)