Noah's ark

by Stefanie
(Belfast, Northern Ireland)

About 2 months before making this cake I made the animals, trees and Noah from royal icing piped onto waxed parchment paper with outlines traced on it. Once they were fully dried out I used edible dusts and dipping solution to paint on the detail. I baked a plain victoria sponge in a 13x9" pan, allowed it to cool completely before cutting it in half and spreading jam on one half and vanilla buttercream on the other then sandwiching them together and refrigerating it further to make sure it was firm enough before cutting to to shape it like a number 1,then spreading a little buttercream over the whole cake to help the fondant to stick.

I used roll out fondant coloured blue for the sea and covered the cake. With a little green to look like grass I covered the top half of the one and the board. With floral wire cut into smaller pieces and taped together to make a jagged tool to rough the fondant to make it look like patches of grass.

Using royal icing I then stuck the animals etc to the cake. Behind the ark I used 2 cocktail stick to help it stand up until the icing dried.