Safari Themed Cake

SAFARI FONDANT CAKE

My nephew's 2-tiers safari cake for his birthday celebration in school. He love animals, so my sis requested me to design an animal themed, not forgetting his favourite Rio character, Blu. 

These partial 2D/3D animals is much easier to make compared to a full 3D, yet still looked cute and real on the cake.

Fondant Elephant

Fondant Lion

Fondant Giraffe

This comes the most difficult part, the making of Blu. As I don't have royal blue colouring, I tried mixing purple with sky blue and the result was great. In my 1st attempt, I wasn't satisfied with the look. It just doesn't look like Blu. Not giving up, I tried again on the next day and it was a success! This was the 2nd attempt. 

Fondant Blu in Rio

After done with the key figurines, below were other accessories that I needed to prepare. To achieve a safari look, I created a woody-look No. 3 and "Lewei". 

For the base,  I started with the dark chocolate ganache frosted cake before adding random white fondant stripes for the top tier and green fondant stripes for the bottom tier. The purpose of not designing a fully covered fondant cake is not to cover the tasty chocolate.  

And, here's my cute nephew at the celebration in school. Happy 3rd Birthday Lewei!