Cat Cake

My friend Hanna is...very enthusiastic about her love of cats. :) For her birthday, I decided to surprise her with a cat shaped cake decorated with several...you've guessed it- cats.! cats cats and more cats.!!!

Here are the first few cats I molded using colored gumpaste. That's my real kitty in the background- he kept trying to eat his friends. ^^

I used different colors of gumpaste to make a variety of cats in different positions.

I let the gumpaste cats dry and harden overnight. Gumpaste is an edible clay-like substance that allows you to easily attach other gumpaste components by using a tiny bit of water as a glue.



I cut off a bit of the top of the cake and used the trimmings to fashion a set of cat ears. I iced everything with frosting tinted with yellow food gel. I piped "Hanna" with purple icing ending with a purple ball of string, as if the name was simply a strand of yarn.Then, I placed the cats on and around the cake.

I added several pink pawprints to complete the cake.! Perfect for any and all of the crazy cat ladies in your life.! :)