As far back as I can remember my brother has loved and supported Tottenham Hotspur football club. So when my mum asked me to make a cake for his birthday I knew exactly what I wanted to do.
Usually I specialise in cupcakes but I decided to try a big cake for the first time. For a few weeks I have been looking through magazines of amazing 2 tier cakes and decided that this is something I should have a go at.
I visited my favourite cake supplier who talked me through step by step of what I will need to create this masterpiece! So I was all set to start cooking.
Baking the cakes was the easy part. I placed each cake on their own board and used jam and vanilla buttercream as the filling. I then covered the top tier in white fondant icing. I created the Tottenham Hotspur logo out of blue fondant icing and stuck it to the top tier using edible glue.
This was then placed on the bottom cake after I had inserted the dowels. I then used the grass nozzle I had purchased previously and started creating the grass to create a football pitch. It seemed to go on forever as my hand started to cramp!. After 15 minutes of constant piping, I was finally finished.
To complete the cake I purchased some edible footballs to put on the grass and placed a football themed ribbon around the top tier.
After 5 hours of hard work, I was finally finished.
..........and this is what I created!
Happy Birthday Darren!
