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Fairy Tree House Cake
by Gabrielle
(Sydney, Australia)
My daughter was turning 3 and was obsessed with anything to do with fairies. She often told me she wanted to 'see where the fairies lived' - so I decided on making her a Fairy Tree House - it was a pretty big cake but we had a pretty big guest list!
I basically made 3 round pan cakes (buttercake mix) and stacked them on top of one another with some chocolate icing in-between to hold them together.
Then I rolled out chocolate fondant icing till it was very thing and wrapped it around the entire cake - making into a 'tree stump'. Then I cover the tree stump with a thick chocolate buttercream icing. I pushed pieces of broken, flakey chocolate into the icing to make 'tree bark'.
I made the leaves and the tree roots out of fondant and just coloured them accordingly with food colour. The little sugar flowers I bought in the supermarket.
I mixed green food colouring with coconut and caster sugar and sprinkled this around the base for the grass.
The actual fairies came from a local $2 shop - I was going to make fondant ones but just ran short on time.
The cake was a huge hit - I was pretty proud of myself because I am not very creative really!
