1 week after Ashok's birthday is Gautham's. So, it was hectic working on 2 cakes in that short time with a naughty boy running around and grabbing all the tools n stuff!
There was a confusion whether to make a castle cake or jungle cake. Got all the stuff necessary for Castle cake, but Ashok insisted on doing jungle cake as Gautham likes animals a lot! So stared making the gumpaste animals couple of weeks earlier! Did monkey, elephant, giraffe, lion, puupy, bumlebees, ladybugs, mushrooms, dolphins, penguins, birds and small flowers. Lots of work, but it was all worth for my lil boy! He loved the cake!
About the cake, its a 2 tiered cake. Bottom tier is a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Top layer is a cream cake and chocolate cake made like a
checker(it was just a trial at last minute) with vanilla buttercream frosting. Both the layers covered in fondant. Thanks to Isabelle , a colleague who gave idea for the tree. The water was royal icing and rest of the figurines are all in gum paste.
