05 May 2018

Blue Ombre Petal Effect Smash Cake



Dear Cake Sweeties

It’s the smash cake this time! Leading up to the birthday boy’s upcoming #1, my friend asked me to make a cake for her son’s smash cake photo shoot. 

We decided on a vegan vanilla cake (her son has allergy towards egg, dairy and almond) filled with strawberry jam, once the cake layers were baked and cooled, I whipped up a batch of vegan whipped cream coloured with different shades of blue to pipe the effect called petal or mermaid-tail.

With a little bit of patience, anyone who can put frosting in a piping bag can achieve this cool effect. All you need to do is pipe circles of frosting vertically down the sides of a plain white cake (here I tinted very light blue) and use an offset spatula to smear the frosting circles about an inch horizontally across the cake. Then pipe another row of frosting circles slightly overlapping your last row of frosting smears and repeat the process until your entire cake is covered.

Then, my love for fondant decorations, I placed some twinkle stars randomly on the cake (inspired by the actual party birthday cake design in May).
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Dear Baby Allistar
Happy cake smashing. Can’t wait to make your super cute birthday cake. 
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Happy baking,
Beth xo

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