Superman 16th!

So this cake was made by me, for me.

I just couldn't resist. The superman theme was inspired by the Iphone case of my friend and the superman laptop case that they gave me for my birthday. This time I used a ready made fondant that seemed to do the trick much better than the previous 'add water' fondant. Inside, there were two red velvet cakes, with cream cheese icing in the middle. Although the red velvet did come out a bit brown... it did the trick and the cake came out very delicious. The recipe was one I found on the internet on youtube with a very funky and helpful video by Howcast, one of which describing how to make a red velvet cake.

The ingredients.

2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour, sifted

1 tsp salt

2 tbsp cocoa powder

2 1-ounce bottles of red food coloring

2 sticks of softened unsalted butter, divided

1 1/2 cup sugar

2 large eggs

1 cup buttermilk

3 tsp vanilla extract, divided

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp white vinegar

2 8-ounces packages of cream cheese, softened

2 cup powdered sugar

Instructions for the cake in the video on the link.

This being my second cake I had ever decorated, with fondant, I was pretty excited to see the result. The rolling and the placing of the fondant on the cake was much easier than the last time I had tried with danielle, so I was pretty pleased with that. The next problem I faced was with the superman logo. So I decided to paint the red on to the fondant for the S as I knew it would immediately turn a light pink if I tried to knead it into it.

I used a template to create the logo and then outlined the red S with chocolate icing pen to make it stand out. And I couldn't resist but put jaffas all around the bottom of the cake, even though not all jaffas bought made it too the cake... And to top off the cake I added the 3 stars on the wires, of which I acquired from a local bakery 'Eve's Pantry'. 

And voilà! A superman cake.