Maxine, my daughter, is one of those unlucky people who had her birthday while we were in lockdown. She's just turned 2, luckily she wont remember this difficult time, but of course we had to make it a very special day for her! I made her this vegan Fairy House Cake to help her celebrate her birthday.
I'm very proud of this cake, it wasn't too difficult to make but I am really chuffed with how it came out!
This cake took me roughly 3/4 of a day but I did have a toddler trying to help, which of course slows things down.
For the butter icing I used the Mermaid icing sugar from Sugar and Crumbs. This is blueberry and white chocolate flavour.
This was a lovely and sweet flavour; super tasty and delicious. We couldn't taste the blueberry and white chocolate though, it just tasted like a sweet mix. It was still very tasty though.
I used a giant cupcake tin/mould to make this cake.
If you don't have one of these you can use a small round tin and a 1/2 sphere.
You can see in this picture that the base of the cupcake tin has a top that you can put on it. That makes the cake grow around it and makes a dip in the base. I then filled that whole with butter icing.
If you aren't using a cupcake mould you can use a spoon to scoop a little cake out the center, if you would like to add the butter icing, however you don't have to do this.
You need to cover the top with foil to stop the cake from burning.
I find if it doesn't have foil it burns the top but doesn't cook the inside, but with the foil it cooks it all evenly.
Once the cake is completly cooled you can cover it in icing and cover it with fondant. You need to keep the top and bottom pieces seperate for now as it will make it easier for you to decorate.
I filled the groves in the cupcake "case", bottom of the cake, to make it smooth all the way round the cake. I then covered it in white fondant. Make sure you smooth the fondant out too.
To decorate the top peice of cake you need to cover it with butter icing. Then cover it with red fondant. You can place it in the fridge before adding the white if the fondant is a little soft.
Use a small circular cutter and cut out some circles. Replace those circles with white ones to create a look like this one.
It's now time to put the cake together.
I covered the cake board in green to make it look like the cake was on grass.
I then placed the base of the cake in the center of the cake board. Then gently place the top of the cake on the bottom.
You can not add the windows and doors.
I made mine black but you can use any colour that you would like.
If the fondant isn't soft enough to put them on, you can stick them onto the cake with a little water.
I made these hedghogs and little log with some little moulds. You fill them with fondant and place them in the freezer for 10-15 minutes or until they are solid.
Don't they look cute!
I also made these little butterflies to go on the cake too.
You fill the moulds with fondant and leave them in the freezer.
For the middle butterfly I use black for the middle, white and pink. I was very happy with how them came out!
Once you've put all the pieces on the cake it should look like mine!
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Fairy House
Ingredients
Cake;
2 ⅔ Cups Self- Raising Flour
2 Cups Caster Sugar
2 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
2 Cups Milk
4 tsp Vanilla Essence
⅔ Cup Vegetable Oil
2 tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar
If you want a chocolate cake just add some cocoa powder with the flour.
Butter Icing;
500g Mermaid Icing Sugar - Sugar and Crumbs This is Blueberry and White Chocolate
220g Butter I use Flora as it's the best vegan butter I have found. It really holds the shape of the butter icing.
1-2 tsp Vanilla Essence
Pink Food Colouring You can change the colour.
Chocolate Soil;
25g Caster Sugar
19g Chocolate
¼ tbsp Water
Decorating;
White, Red, Pink and Black Fondant
Butterfly & Hedgehog Moulds.
Green Food Colouring.
Method
Cake;
Preheat the oven 180C and prepare your cake tins. Either a giant cupcake try or a small a round cake tin and a ½ sphere.
In a large bowl sift the flour and bicarbonate of soda.
Add the sugar and mix to combine.
Pour in all the wet ingredients and mix until smooth.
Pour the mix roughly ⅔ in the base of the cupcake tin and ⅓ in the top. If you are using the cupcake tin place the middle piece on the bottom.
Cover the top with foil. If you aren’t using the cupcake tin cover both with foil.
Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick can come out clean.
Let cool completely before decorating.
Butter Icing;
Cream the butter and icing sugar together.
Add the Vanilla essence
Put a little pink food colouring in to make the shade you would like.
Place in the fridge until needed.
Chocolate Soil;
Put the sugar and water in a small saucepan.
Bring to a boil and ass the chocolate.
Stir continuously until the chocolate has melted.
Pour onto a small piece of baking parchment and fold it over to cover the top as well.
Place in the fridge or freezer until completely cooled and solid.
Place in a bowl, ziploc bag or pestle and mortar and break into little pieces to create the path to the house.
Decorating;
If using the cupcake tin, fill the middle part with butter icing and then everyone can do a crumb coat on the outside of the bottom of the cake and the top. Don’t put them together yet.
Do a second layer of icing to completely cover the top and bottom cake. I filled in indents of the “cupcake case” at the bottom of the cake, with icing, so it was just one even cake all the way round.
Cover the bottom cake with white fondant.
Cover the top cake with red fondant, cut out a few little circles around the top and replace them with white circles.
Place the cakes back in the fridge while you make the rest;
Make your butterflies and hedgehogs; fill the moulds with fondant and place in the freezer for 10-15 minutes or until solid. I left mine in until I needed them.
Use black fondant to make the door and windows for the cake.
Use a little green food colouring to colour the white fondant, roll it out and cover a cake board.
Place the bottom of your cake in the center of the cake board.
Place the top of the cake on the bottom.
Add your door and windows to the side of the cake. Use water to stick these on if you need to.
Use black fondant to make a little path from the door to the edge of the cake and place the chocolate soil in the center.
Add you butterflies and hedgehogs onto the cake.
Place in the fridge until needed or serve straight away.
Enjoy!
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