K1,P1 (Knit 1, Purl 1)

My friend Daisy commissioned me to make her 40th birthday cake. She is a knitting fiend and crochets wonderful bags and shawls so it was an obvious choice to do a wool themed cake.

This is how I achieved the finished article:

For the base, I sandwiched together a Madeira cake with raspberry jam and vanilla butter cream. The cake was then covered in butter cream.

The cake was covered in white ready roll icing and smoothed over with a smoother.

I covered the cake board with a thin layer of butter cream and then put the rolled out pink ready icing on the top and sides. I trimmed off the excess icing and using butter cream, secured the ribbon trim in place. The cake was placed on top of the cake board.

For the wool cake, I used a ball tin to bake two hemispheres which were spread with butter cream and jam.












The two halves were sandwiched together to make a sphere for the ball of wool.

I coated the ball cake with butter cream ready for the icing.

I then covered the ball with rolled out pink icing. Using a craft gun with a circle pattern disc I squeezed out the icing into long worms and stuck them to the cake with sugar glue. I continued until the ball was covered.

Once the ball of wool was finished I placed it on top of the base cake and secured it with a wooden dowel. For extra effect I used real knitting needles in it.

I made a selection of flowers out of icing and again used butter cream to stick them around the edge of the base cake.

I made some vanilla cupcakes and decorated them with piped butter cream and miniature balls of wool which I hand made out of ready roll icing. The cup cakes were then placed around the cake.

The finished article!!