Coolest Monkey Cake 44
by F Hoskins
(Christchurch NZ)
Monkey Cake
The monkey head was actually baked in 3 bowls - 2 of the same size (to make a ball) and one very small one, they were stuck together with a simple chocolate buttercream and skewers then trimmed down to more resemble a monkey face.
The face of the monkey cake was put together in 3 different stages - the eyebrow and eye area, the mouth and then the nose etc so the fondant nicely covered the lips etc. The ears are also fondant and then a chocolate buttercream coloured so it was dark enough and just applied with the piping bag and star shaped nozzle.
The bananas are fondant also - coloured yellow and shaped then brown food colouring lightly painted on the ends.The cake itself was just a basic chocolate fudge cake which came out nice and moist.
Lots of fun to make! Helpful to make sure your cake is entirely cooled before putting the buttercream on, does make for a very moist cake if not though ! To give your fondant a shiny smoother look you can apply glucose thinned out with a little hot water after you have shaped it - but it will stay shiny unless you lightly dust with icing sugar - this can get messy though.
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