Shaken, not Stirred

To continue the pretty cake posts I thought I would share the cake I made for my stepfather's 50th birthday. The theme of the party was James Bond, so naturally I turned straight to Google Images for ideas.

I can tell you, some terrifyingly ambitious cakes pop up when you search "James Bond cake":


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No freaking way. Additionally, I only had to feed about 50 people, so tiers were not what I was going for. Inspiration eventually found me with:

I figured that 3 solid colours, one being white, couldn't be too hard. I also wanted the cake to be something special in itself, and low on flour to cater for my mum's sensitivity to gluten. I ended up with an old-faithful rich, chocolate fudge cake.

The only photo here with decent lighting - be prepared for a (completely intentional) yellow filter



Close-up for fudginess



Believe it or not that icing is white, not yellow

All covered up in pretty red fondant

The decorations, all cut out

So proud of the little gun! Too cute

And the big finish!

The finished product weighed about 15kg. I believe the final tally of ingredients included something like:

• 1.2kg dark chocolate
• 600g butter
• 8 eggs
• 1kg sugar

Needless to say, it tasted really good!