Skill level: Intermediate
Cakes.... IN SPACE! This tutorial is all about space, and more specifically, our solar system. This birthday cake was a blast to make, featuring a glowing sun, rotating planets, Saturn's rings, hand-painted Earth and moon, isomalt Neptune and Uranus and a massive galaxy cake. Learn to create this cake step-by-step that is sure to wow the space-loving recipient.
1:30:59 Minutes of Instruction
What You Will Learn
- How to make a rotating solar system cake
- Learn how to make planets 3 different ways: chocolate planets, a cake Jupiter, and isomalt Neptune and Uranus
- How to make Saturn, a ringed planet
- Learn how to hand paint and add galaxy details
Tutorial Chapters
- The spinning boards
- The sun structure
- Painting the board
- Stacking the cake
- Trimming the cake
- Planet overview
- Jupiter’s base
- Saturn’s isomalt ring
- Saturn’s sphere
- Small chocolate spheres
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Mercury and the moon
- Covering the cake board
- Adding Jupiter
- Assembling Saturn
- Assembling small planets
- Adding the cake
- Frosting Jupiter
- Frosting the main cake
- Covering with fondant
- Adding Saturn
- Painting the main cake
- Adding Uranus
- Adding Neptune
- Adding Saturn’s ring
- Adding small planets
- Covering threaded rod
- Painting touchups
- Painting small planets
- Painting the sun
- Painting earth