Birthday Cake Ideas – Adventure Time theme!

Adventure Time is a quirky, animated kids show created for Cartoon Network. It features main characters Finn (a human boy) and his best friend (and adoptive brother) Jake (who is a dog) and a host of other crazy characters. It’s one of those kids shows I don’t mind watching myself – it’s very funny and a bit different. So I was really excited when asked to come up with some birthday cake ideas inspired by the Adventure Time characters.

The customer wanted Jake the dog to be the main cake.

To start, I covered the cake board in green fondant icing. Jake was created by hand carving into 3 layers of butter cake, covered with buttercream icing and finished in yellow fondant. Fondant is like an edible playdough. It is made from sugar and can be moulded into almost any shaped. Fondant creates a perfectly smooth surface to work, can be coloured into any shade and is one of the most versatile ingredients to work with and for all of these reasons, is my preferred medium create with.

When the cake was covered it kind of looked like an egg or a beehive! Once the base was finished it was time to decorate. I finished Jake’s face and arms and then I started to add some characters. The first is Princess Bubblegum. She is made entirely by fondant and is fully edible:

Then the Ice King character was next. He took the longest time to create out of all the characters as his beard and teeth were so fiddly as was the crown with jewels:

I put the other main character, Finn on the top along with a “Birthday Time” sign to match the show’s logo. I created the “birthday time” sign from an edible icing sheet printed in food colouring – it finished off the design:

And here is the final result:

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