Tayo Cake

 

Zion's Birthday is on 15th June, since 15th fell on Saturday we kept the school party & friends party on the 14th. Zion has a lot of friends in the Condo & I thought of inviting his friends in the evening for a small Birthday celebration. I decided to make Tayo cake & add in some figurines from the Barnyard cake. Since this party also was on the same day as school party, I was left with limited time. Making Tayo cake was really easy. I baked & frosted the cake the previous night. The cake was sitting in the fridge & it was easier for me to come back from school & just do the fondant decoration. Thankfully the animal figurines were not attacked badly in Zion’s school. Adding farm animals was an instant idea & just went with the flow. If you have a closer look at the cake you will realise that it’s very shabbily doneJ The school party was at 3pm & by the time I got back home it was 4. I was left with only 1.5 hours to do the fondant decoration. I was again very happy with the way the cake looked. My hubby was feeling so proud & kept saying that you are really very creative. He couldn’t believe that in such a short time I would make it look so good. Now it sounds like self-praise right? Hehehehe…

Well the evening party also went on well. Zion along with his friends danced on Gangnam style song. Zion was very excited to see “Tayo the little Bus”cake. He in fact was very unhappy when we cut the cake. He kept screaming oh no… Tayo, tayo…… poor fella kept re-joining Tayo’s head back to the cake. LOL:) After the cake was done I called this cake " Tayo the little Bus goes on a picnic to Barnyard with Farm animals":) For the Barnyard cake I had some idea on how I wanted it to turn out but for this one it was all instant imagination. I can say more like a cut copy paste style with all that repetition of farm animals:)

 

How I made the cake:

1. I baked a Vanilla pound cake in 9 inch square pan. For Pound cake recipe click here.  The cake turned out 2 inch in height, it’s a very short cake & that’s what I wanted. I cut the cake into 3 piece vertically & just layered one on top of the other. So I dint so any shaping:) This was very easy.
2. On each layer I filled some Vanilla butter cream icing. & crumb coated the entire cake with Butter cream.
3. The fondant I have used here is again Home made fondant. I used edible black marker on Tayo for the black colour windows.
4. The Pond water is made from Wilton edible gel.
5. I piped the green grass from the left over whipped cream that I had.
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