It’s with great excitement
that this post announces my first official commission! I was asked to make and design a
special cake in the shape of a DJ mixing desk (as the birthday person in
question is – you guessed – a DJ)!
The work was hard as this
cake was large: 40cm x 30cm. I had
to buy a lot of equipment I could not find in my local supermarkets. I also discovered the new world for me
of sugar paste (or regalice/royal icing), which although looks like playdough
behaves very much like clay but in the reverse: the more you handle it, the
more it turns into mush. So I had
to work fast and needed to develop a technique to keep my shapes clean.
My advice for this post will
be to make sure to practice on techniques you are unfamiliar with before
heading full on making a large cake. This cake also took me 2 days to make:
one day for baking and prep; one day for decorating. This kind of cake decorating is very time consuming and
requires trial and error. The
process was new to me.
I will also share
information regarding the “glue” I used between the cake and the icing. English recipes with sponges use warmed
apricot jam. But as my cake was
chocolate, I made a white chocolate ganache from a recipe and technique I found on this great youtube video.
The recipe for this cake was
the same as my previous post with the quantities doubled. I used on an average of 2.5 Kg of icing, which I dyed with a range of natural food colourings.
