Cosmetic Cake Creation

A good friend of mine asked me to help her make a birthday cake for her sister, a makeup artist. She picked out the eye shadow you see above and together we worked to create this cake! It took a long time and a little experimenting to get the colors and the cake to look like the makeup but I think we did a pretty good job, don't you?

We started by covering the cake in black fondant. For those who don't know, fondant is what gives the cake the silky smooth exterior, very often seen on wedding cakes. It's a combination of sugar, glycerin, and a lot of other ingredients that you roll out and lay over a thinly frosted cake. We then took a small piece of white fondant and added a small amount of green, yellow, and blue food coloring and gently folded them into the white to give it the marbled look. To create the letters, we added tylose powder to the black fondant to create gum paste. Gum paste has a clay-like texture which is easier to work with when making shapes or 3D figures. After adding a small buttercream border to the very bottom of the cake, it was complete!

This was a lot of fun to make and I hope my friend's sister had a very happy birthday!