Strawberry Cake

This week has been a busy birthday cake making week for me. I’m so excited to share them all with you. First up is this adorable cake for a strawberry loving three year old. I was asked to make it by my sister’s friend from work for her niece. The brief was anything strawberry related, and when I saw this image I knew it would be sweet to make a giant version. The cake was vanilla and filled with a strawberry buttercream and strawberry jam. The best part was making the strawberries. I shaped them by hand using fondant and piped tiny dots on to look like the seeds, then used a flower cutter to make the stalks. I put three on top as it was for her third birthday and chose an extra wide board so I could place the rest around the bottom of the cake.