Karate Birthday Cake

It was my brother birthday a couple of weeks ago and for his birthday I made him a cake that was a karate jacket with a black belt. He loves karate and is a black belt with white stripe so I thought it was suitable idea to make him a cake with a theme of karate!

I baked the cake in a 32cm x 26cm rectangle cake tin and used the recipe I found online. You can find the recipe here.

I made a template of a karate jacket out of A3 paper. I made sure the template fitted the dimensions of the cake tin.

 I placed it on the cake, which was out of the tin and cut around it.

 I then made my butter cream icing which I did a post on for my Icecream sundae cup cake so click here and follow that recipe.

I covered my cake with a thin layer of the butter cream icing with my metal spatula. I iced the cake on the cake board as it makes it easier. I just clean up the side with the exes buttercream  with a paper towel.

I placed a little bit of butter cream aside and dyed it red. I covered it with cling wrap as I was using it later to stick the candles in the board.

Next is fondant time! I used 2kg on white fondant to cover the cake. I first covered my bench in corn flour, so the fondant didn't stick to the bench and rolled it out 2mm thick with  a rolling pin. I got my fondant from my local cake decorating store. You can find white fondant anywhere even in supermarkets. 

I placed the fondant on the cake. There are many YouTube tutorial on how to place fondant on a cake and that is how I learnt. The easiest way for me is to wrap it around the rolling pin and then roll it on.

2kg of fondant was a lot to cover the cake so as I was rolling the fondant out I trimmed a bit off. When I placed it on the cake I also roughly trimmed the edges.

With a fondant smoother I smoothed the edges of the cake and the fondant. You definitely need one of these if you are making a fondant cake. 

I trimmed the edges as close to the cake as I could and then tucked them under the cake with a speading knife. I then added line to define the arms and sleeve. I did this with the back of a knife.

I rolled out a strip of fondant and place a clean ruler on top and cut two strips. These will the the neck lines. I cut my fondant with a pizza cutter. I find them easier to use, but you could always just use a knife.

With my metal spreading knife I added some detail to the line.

I then placed it on the cake and marked a line on the spot I needed to cut it on.

I then placed it on the cake with a dab of water.

The pieces of fondant will be hanging over the sides, like this.

I just cut them off with a knife and then tucked it under.

Next I needed to make the belt. For the belt I used black fondant that was all ready coloured. You can't dye white fondant black or red. So I bought my black fondant from my local cake decorating store. 

For the belt I cut a long black strip and a short black strip using my ruler and my pizza cutter again.

With my metal spreading knife I added some detail to the short strip. I just added two lines at the edges of the strip.  Sorry the picture is of the long strip. I did add the stripes on the long stripes but they were covered by the white stripe, so there is really no point doing them.

I then cut a smaller bit of white fondant and cut it in half. 

 I twisted the black fondant in a 'V' shape as you can see below.

I then placed the white strip of fondant on the black. I tucked the white fondant under the twist and then right around the bend at the top.

With the short strip of black fondant I wrapped it around the twist of the belt and attached it with a little bit of water.

Remember how I dyed the red butter cream red well this was to match the candles. 

I placed the butter cream in a zip lock bag and cut a little off the corner.

I put a blob of butter cream at the bottom of each candle.

And then placed the candle on the cake board. the butter cream with harden up and the candle will stay in place.

This is my second fondant cake I have made. I hope to be doing more birthday cake tutorials soon! I hope you enjoyed this post.

With love Angelique xx