LIPPY LIPS STEP BY STEP
Learn to make a Lippy Lips 3D cake.
Shopkins is one of the trends nowadays. We were asked to bake a nice Shopkins cake to a 7 years old and we would like to share with you the steps. You can se the result of our cake in the picture beside and in our cake gallery.
The cake is a chocolate cake that was filled with Kinder Maxi cream and Kinder Bueno cream, but you can choose the flavors you like best.
- Cake bottom in different sizes (we recommend at least 3 cm difference in diameter between them). We used our recipe for CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH MELTED CHOCOLATE
- Kinder Maxi cream (recipe here)
- Kinder Bueno cream (recipe here)
- Buttercream (recipe here)
- Fondant
- Confectioner marzipan (normal color -no the one that is extra white-)
- Pasta color: pink, purple and black
- Classic Gold powder color
This is what you need:
Directions
The first thing to do is to fill the cakes with the creams and cover the ouside with a thin layer of buttercream to get a nice shape. Divide the cake bottoms in 3 and 4 layers, depending on the high you want each part of the cake to be (and how thick you like the cake bottoms). We took one of the cake bottoms on a cake board and fylled with a layer of Kinder Maxi cream, a new bottom, a layer of Kinder Bueno cream and covered it with another cake bottom. These creams can make the fondant starts to melt if they are in contact, thats why we have a circle with buttercream on the outside of the cake. The buttercream recipe we used is just butter and icing sugar (we took as a base the white chocolate buttercream recipe that you find here, but we replaced the white chocolate with icing sugar). In the cakes that are covered withpink fondant, the buttercream was colored with a bit pink pasta color. To make the cake bottoms even more juicy, we soak them in milk,
Next step is to cover the cake with buttercream all around. First thing to do is to remove the excess of the buttercream comming out from the rings we mad. We want to get a smooth surface. Normally we cover the cake twice, first a "basis" layer, and then the finish layer to make the cake flat and looking nice (the cake bottom must not be seen when the cake has been covered with the buttercream before you put the fondant/marzipan on) After covering it the first time, set the cake in the fridge during a while to let the butter become stif, repeat the same procedure after the second time you cover with buttercream. If it becomes difficult to cover the whole cake at a time, you can cover the sides first, put in the frigde for a while and cover the top part
When the butter becomes stiff (after 1-2 hours in the fridge) take the kakes out form the fridge and cover them with fondant/marzipan.
The next step is to stack the cakes. This cake was not very big (the biggest diameter is 12 cm) and that's why we just put two grill sticks inside with the only mission to hold the whole cake together. If you make a big cake, it will be heavier, so we recommend you to stack the cake like normally.
The last step is to decorate the cake. To hide the gap between the different parts we made a fondant lace (it's also possible to use a silk ribbon) and glue it to the cake on the lower part of each size.
Make a nice tie (we made a violet one). To make it keeping the shape, make it a couple of days in advance.
We used the piping tips to make the circles of the open eye. The rest of the decoration is handmade.
What do you think about the result?
You must do the same with all the parts of the cake, take care of the shape of the upper part of the cake.
We wanted to make the part situated in the middle in golden color, we used the "Classic Gold" powder color. What we did was to cover the cake with a mixture of white fondant and confectioner marzipan (we usde a mixture of 50/50 to get a light beige color), and then brushed the cake with the golden color.
