Cooper Coffee Cake

About a week ago we organised an early birthday brunch for our friend Jane. It was a perfect leisurely celebration where we had mimosas, fruit salad, a boat load of bagels (I’ve just discovered blueberry bagels!!!), and this coffee cake  along with plenty of tea. Jane is a big coffee fan so the flavour was an obvious choice and for the design I decided to decorate it by making a cookie version of her dog Cooper. Cooper is one super cool dog. He is ridiculously cute plus I’m pretty sure he has more clothes than I do. I made cookie Cooper by drawing a template based on one of Jane’s photos of him and cutting it out of vanilla biscuit dough. I then used royal icing to create his furry look using a nozzle similar to this. I placed cookie Cooper on top of the simple buttercream cake and filled the edges of the stand with these chocolate coffee beans. It was so great that we got to see Jane and celebrate her birthday while she is in town. Happy Birthday Jane! x