Sometimes having the perfect cake tin for baking your vision is not possible. And most of the time the best thing to do is bake two or more round cakes and carve them out by hand. That's also how we made the chainsaw, landrover and artic generic red Christmas truck (which can be seen on our Facebook page) and actually everything shaped was carved by hand and using no moulds.
So we started this cake with 4 x 8" round cakes. And took a knife to them.
The body is starting to take shape, we kept on building with strawberry preserve and buttercream adding legs and then more body and head.
The whole cake was then covered with buttercream.
Next was the task of icing the cake. We decided to cover the legs separately which we've actually never done before but since the back of the cake was going to be covered completely with white fluffy royal icing and the legs needed to be less so, it didn't matter that the whole cake wasn't covered first.
The ears were made a few days before with SFP so that they could set hard and stick up at the sides of the lambs head. We think it looks quite cute sitting in it's grass full of daisies and holding the girls age and name in it's mouth.
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