Sweet Treats Cake

07/18/2010

Sweet Treats Cake

This cake is so so cute.

First of all, the cake itself is only a little bit bigger than a cupcake. Secondly, its topped with tiny fondant desserts. Its a mini-cake with mini-mini-cakes on it!!

Its not a grown-up sophisicated cake that you serve at fancy luncheons or black tie affairs. Its more something that you serve to large groups of squealing girls.

It's all thanks to this Japanese clay mold kit I bought. It is for paper clay, which is light and foamy like model magic but I decided to use it with fondant to make cake toppers. ...

..which was probably for the best because I couldn't really read the insructions for the clay.

For fondant I just lightly greased the mold, pressed in the fondant, popped it out and then let it sit uncovered overnight to let it stiffen a bit before I assembled the pieces.

I had ignored the long rectangle shape and was just trying to twist some white fondant to make the "icing". It wasn't working and looked..wrong. Then I realized that the rectangle shape makes the perfect twist and that is obviously what it is there for.

Upon later inspection of the instructions I saw that there was even a little illustration showing me how to do this.. doh.

The kit came with a sparkle gel that I'm sure is not supposed to be used on food.. so I brushed my mini macrons with edible shimmer powder.

This one is my favorite! These were so fun to make, I am thinking about making them with the clay stuff at some point and sticking them on a necklace.

The kit even came with this little display case,Ii'm amused by the sign that says "Fuwafuawa mousse".. it makes me want to order more stuff from Japan right now.

With cake toppers this cute I knew that the cake itself had to be pink. I might as well bring the cutesy thing to its highest level.

I used the strawberry cake recipe from the Strawberry Cupcakes I made recently and the same cream cheese icing.

After a crumb coat of cream cheese icing I covered the cake in white marshmallow fondant..

..And then decorated it with the little fondant toppers.

Here's a teacup for scale. It's a very small cake.. perfect for two hungry people or for three people who ate too much for dinner.

Awww... so sweet

..and so tasty! This strawberry cake really is my favorite cake recipe at the moment. And it doesn't hurt that its really adorable looking.

Posted at 09:47 PM in Cakes, Decorating | Permalink

Tags: fondant toppers, japanese paper clay, strawberry cake, sweet treats

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EEEEEeeeee, they are so cute and absolutely tiny!

Posted by: Tzie Bzie | 07/19/2010 at 07:14 AM

SO cute!!

Posted by: Hipness | 07/19/2010 at 08:13 AM

Looks awesome! And tasty! And very cute =)

Posted by: Lesley Howard | 07/19/2010 at 08:36 AM

oh, mouthwatering cuteness! i'd eat that cake all by myself. it looks so, so delicious.
the kit looks like heaps of fun. i would have killed for that when i was little. i love that it comes with a display case :)

Posted by: hocus | 07/19/2010 at 03:23 PM

Soooo cute ! It reminds me of the little Japanese erasers that are all the rage !!! The cake looks super yummy.

Posted by: Mylifeunderthebus | 07/19/2010 at 07:32 PM

so cute stephanie!! where did you order that little kit from?

Posted by: Lolitalemon.blogspot.com | 07/20/2010 at 09:46 AM

I actually wouldn't recommend the site that I used for this kit.. shipping was super slow. But a good etsy seller has a bunch of them here : http://www.etsy.com/shop/beautifulwork?section_id=5611747

Posted by: Stephanie | 07/20/2010 at 10:57 AM

It looks like toy food to play "tea party" :) cute

Posted by: Karen Beales | 07/20/2010 at 09:04 PM

did i mention that i LOVE this? awesomeness. and i love the molds, i could spend the whole day playing with them. miniature upon miniature-taking "cute" to a whole new level :)

Posted by: {something sweet} | 07/23/2010 at 09:43 AM

Love that you put the fancy tea cup for scale!

Posted by: Sunny Oasis | 07/30/2010 at 08:30 AM

very cute! i love them in that little display case... so sweet! ;)

Posted by: Cabinandcub.blogspot.com | 08/10/2010 at 04:04 PM

That is so darling!!! The first image is lovely, but then when you find out how tiny it is the cute factor shoots up by about a million percent! I love love love that pic of the cake and teacup side by side.

Hope you're enjoying the last days of summer!

Posted by: Avasummers | 08/20/2010 at 06:30 AM

Oh god oh god oh god I want! Youre amazing!

Posted by: Tika Boss | 08/30/2010 at 10:24 PM