Adorable and delicious, or at least as a cake. If you are or know a fan of Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom, or Gaston the Ladybird, this is the cake for you!
Gaston the Ladybird 3D Cake
Prep Time:
20 minutes
Cook Time:
1 hour
Additional Time:
40 minutes
Total Time:
2 hours
Red velvet cake with cream cheese buttercream and fondant, in the shape of Gaston the Ladybird from Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom.
Ingredients
- ½ Batch of Red Velvet Cake*
- 2½ Batch of Cream Cheese Buttercream
- ±350 grams of Black Fondant
- ±500 grams of Red Fondant
- ±100 grams of White Fondant (for Pink and Blue as well)
- ±100 grams of Dark Chocolate
- Black Chocolate Food Colouring
Instructions
- Line a bowl (ø18,5 cm) with plastic wrap, using a bit of water to get it to stick to the bowl.
- Add a layer of cake, covering the inside of the bowl entirely.
- Pipe in some cream cheese buttercream.
- Keep alternating between layers of cake and layers of buttercream, ending with a layer of cake.
- Add a bit of buttercream to the top and add a cakeboard, upside down, on top.
- Refrigerate for one hour, until fully set.
- Cover the entire cake in cream cheese buttercream, smoothing it with acetate.
- Refrigerate for one hour, until fully set.
- Cover at least two skewers (18 cm) in black chocolate and refrigerate for one hour to set.
- Roll out the black fondant thinly.
- Cover the cake in black fondant, draping it over the cake and gently smoothing and moving it until it is completely covered and smooth.
- Cut off the excess black fondant.
- Roll out red fondant, about 4 millimetres thick.
- Cut a straight line across and drape over half the cake, attaching it with some water.
- Smooth out the fondant and cut off the excess, as shown in the video.
- Repeat for the other side of the cake.
- Create small balls to attach to the skewers out of some of the leftover black fondant.
- Roll out remainder of the black fondant thinly and cut out ten circles for the dots and two smaller circles for the black in his eyes.
- Attach dots to the cake.
- Roll out white fondant thinly and create two big circles for the eyes.
- Using a fondant extruder fitted with a small round opening, create lines of blue fondants and thicker lines of red fondant.
- Place blue fondant string around the edges of the white circles and attach with water.
- Add the small black fondant circles to the white of the eyes.
- Attach eyes to cake, using some water, and add on a tiny dot of white fondant onto both eyes.
- Shape mouth, out of red fondant string, and attach with some water.
- Create some pink blushes and attach with water.
- Stick the skewers, or antenna, into place.
Notes
*Baked for 5 - 10 minutes in two cake pans of 38,7 cm × 26 cm.
Disclaimer: Gaston the Ladybird is property of Phil Davies and I am in no way claiming ownership of him.