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Athletics and Gymnastic Themed Birthday Cakes

September 21, 2014 by rachel Leave a Comment

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This week I had the special task of making my twin sisters birthday cakes (Not my twin…they are twins!)

I was told that Chloe would like a gymnastic themed cake and Maddie would like an athletic themed cake so I started to look online for some inspiration. There wasn’t much around so I put my thinking cap on.

Unfortunately these cakes didn’t come out quite as I had planned for a few reasons. Firstly, I had wanted the figures to look realistic rather than cartoony so I ordered a child shaped mould from Ebay. When this hadn’t arrived by the day I had to make the cakes (and still hasn’t arrived!) I had to start thinking about what I could do instead, without much time for the preparation!

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The plan for Maddie’s cake was to make a running track shaped cake as I know she loves running. I did this, but it really didn’t look good so at 5pm I decided to start again and went for the traditional round cake like Chloe’s.

And then it was too late by the time I realised I had forgotten to get some ribbon to go around the cakes so I made a yellow band from sugar paste which doesn’t quite give the neat effect I was looking for!

I made the figures from a mixture of sugar paste and flower paste. The flower paste is great as it dries hard, but I find the sugar paste easier to colour.

And to help the figures ‘sit up’ I created a pile of gym mats behind the gymnast and a tree stump behind the athlete.

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Overall, I was reasonably pleased with these cakes, but I knew I could have done better…I’m a perfectionist…what can I say!?

I really hope they tasted good (I did have a sneaky taste from the bits that didn’t work on Maddie’s first cake and it tasted great to me!) I went for a chocolate malteser flavoured sponge – the recipe can be found here.

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Happy Birthday Chloe and Maddie – I hope the cakes went down well at the party,

Rachel xxx

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Welcome to Sunday Baking! I started this blog at the start of 2013 and it's taken me on a wonderful journey. A lot has changed in the last few years and you will now see more refined sugar free recipes (although don't worry....if you have a sweet tooth I will still be featuring regular sweet stuff too!).
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