We will never forget the Sun & Moon cake for Sofia!
Let’s start at the beginning. The base consists of two sponge cakes: one classic and the other with carrots. The clouds are made from a mixture of whipped cream and Philadelphia.
I spent two whole days making the main Sun and Moon design in icing and waiting for it to dry.
Half an hour before handing the cake to Sofia, I removed the icing design from its plastic backing and… disaster! The design shattered into a thousand pieces (see the photo below).
We all set to work to put things right… and within an hour I had made a new icing design. This time, though, instead of working on plastic I made it on a sugar paste shape so that it would be easier to lift off.
In the end, juggling one thing and another, we managed to fit all the floating little stars. I picked up the big transport box and… disaster! The box fell onto the cake!!
Oh no!
But in the end the floating stars held up the box, and the cake survived!
What a heart-stopping afternoon!
Here is the process:
This is the disaster!
Now we start from scratch!!
