The base is the American style 'pound cake', with a simple cream cheese filling.
2 dl double cream (whipped)
200 g orange flavoured cream cheese
0,5 dl powdered sugar
I made this cake in a 20cm cake tin, and put all of the filling between two tiers of the cake, even though it seemed too much. I think this amount of filling for this size cake might have been enough to also cover the cake, but as I wanted to try a new technique with fondant, I just covered the cake first with buttercream.
At the Cake and Bake Show in Manchester I admired the numerous textured rolling pins they had for sale, but they were quite expensive and I decided to invest my money elsewhere.
I had previously made a simple mold out of thin chopping board for the Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon cake, and I used the same technique also this time.
These inexpensive chopping boards I found from Ikea, and my grandad's 1978 selfmade carving tools were perfect for the task. Sure it took a countless number of hours to carve, but what wouldn't I do to save some money... :D
The second technique used in this cake was mixing a petal (or luster) dust with vodka for airbrushing (seen once again in some American cake programs), and it worked amazingly well! I can now forget about the expensive airbrushing colours and start using the local liquor store more. ;)
By the way, alcohol in the vodka evaporates from the cake leaving only the colour behind, so it should be safe to use even for kids' cakes.
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