Skill level: Intermediate
In our latest tutorial, you'll be learning how to create a golden birthday cake. Golden birthdays are when the child's age, the month, and the day all line up (April 4th for a 4 year-old child in this case). I decided to go all in on the gold theme, creating a gold mine, with a fun number 4 emerging from the top of the Wiley Coyote style mountain and a track of rails the gold cart sits upon.
You'll learn how to create a fun, cartoony style cake mountain, how to add a gold mine into a mountain so that it looks like it's holding up and supporting the mine shaft and how to make an adorable mine cart.
1:06:20 Minutes of Instruction
What You Will Learn
- How to sculpt an irregular mountain shape out of cake
- Learn how to make the wooden planks and cart rails out of edible materials
- How to create an edible metallic number cake topper
- A cool technique on how to make edible trees
Tutorial Chapters
- Building the structure
- Coloring fondant
- Covering the board
- Stacking the cake mountain
- Carving the cake
- Crumb coating the cake
- Making the mining cart
- Golden number topper
- Building up the mine
- Covering in fondant
- Texturing details
- Working the top tier
- Making the boulders
- Making the wooden beams
- Making the rocks
- Making and placing the tracks
- Placing the number topper
- Airbrushing details
- Attaching cart
- Adding tires
- Adding trees
- Final details