My 27th Birthday Cake

When I tuned 27 years old I decided to make a cake that honoured my favourite puzzle - the 3X3 Rubik's Cube.

This cake has 48 large eggs in it and required 9 packets of fondant icing. To created the rich colours needed for 'the cube' i had to literally paint the fondant icing with various food dyes. From memory I used 12 bottles of black food dye. There was enough cake for nearly 200 people!

This monster sized cake was completely gluten and dairy free and absolutely delicious!

I made it by backing multiple cakes in a square tin (very well greased). I then froze all the square cakes to make them easier to cut. But cutting each one in half and then placing the two halves together with the perfectly smooth faces pointing outwards I was able to stack the cakes into layers that formed a cube. Instant-frosting from a can was used to hold all the layers together.

The icing was rolled out with a rolling pin then painted with the various colour of food dye. The different colours (red/yellow/green/blue/orange) were painted onto the fondant squares and those squares were then stuck onto the main cake and the black fondant foundation using frosting.

Here are the pictures!

The cake with the final decorations

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When one third of the cake had been eaten this is what it looked like!

The cake - getting there

The finished Cube-cake

The cake in the plastic crate shows how big it was compared to my housemate

This was by far the coolest birthday cake I have ever had

2 more sides to go - no the cake is not sagging.

Almost finished