Dad’s 70th Birthday Cake 🐒 👴 🎂

Here is a cake I had made for my dad’s 70th birthday. Lucky for him it was during my baking years, otherwise it would have been a store bought cake. Designing the cake was fun, I wanted to create something playful.

He was born in the year of the monkey, likes table tennis and Tai Chi. So I decided to incorporate all 3 elements into one. My design involves my dad playing table tennis in his tai chi attire (plus fan) against a cheating monkey with four bats!! Lol

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Here is a sketch of the ideas I had and thoughts on how to go about making them. In particular the bats so they resembled the real table tennis bats. Oh! I just realised something I missed. I forgot the ball!!!

Here is a colour sketch I had done on my note one to see which colours would go together. Obviously from both hand and digital sketch I had done, I am not very good at drawing the monkey hahaha

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I made the monkey and model of my dad in advance. My dad still has the monkey on display somewhere in the lounge. Not sure where the man is though. The monkey was a little fun to make, I like his toes. They look cute after piecing them together. Oh and we can’t forget the curling tail.

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I didn’t do a good job on the man model though. I was too focused on getting him to stand in a Tai Chi stance so I made the torso cone shaped to make it easier to hold the stance.

But I did give him a nice hairdo at the front and made him look younger lol. This was where I decided the next time I do 3D hair; I will work on it more and find a way to make it look nicer.

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Also the cake seemed a little bare on the edges so I made leaves using moulds to place around the cake. I also used edible gold paint to paint the number 70. Overall dad was happy, excited and surprised. The kids loved it too and helped grandpa blow out the candles before asking if they could have the 'golden numbers' to eat.