Airplane cake

finished airplane cake

card board molds for rice chocolate

It’s been a while since my last cake, and I had almost forgotten how great these themed cakes are to make.

This time the order was for an airplane cake for a 3-year-old boy called Oskari, and the desired flavours were strawberry and banana.

Just like with every theme cake, everything starts from the design. This time the object was to create the biggest possible (airplane shaped cake) that would fit the 32x32cm cake box, so first the shape needed to be drawn on paper.

the molds worked great

I decided to make the wings, the enginges (the main purpose of which in this design was to hold the wings up in the air J ) and the rodders out of rice chocolate, because they needed to be sturdy and of the correct thickness. This time I made card board molds for the rice chocolate.

the base of the cake filled and compacted

The base for also this cake was a traditional sheet cake (used also for swiss rolls). The fillings were strawberry purée (witch I also used to moisten the cake), banana purée and a vanilla flavoured whipped cream.

Between the cake and the sugar fondant I used normal butter cream.

The covering and the decorations of the cake are, as said, rolled sugar fondant.

The wings and the rodders have all been supported with toothpicks.

Hopefully no one will eat them :)  

carving of a cake is fun!

Happy birthday Oskari!