Camouflage cupcakes

For the army themed party I created camouflage cakes where both the sponge and the topping were created in a camouflage design.

The sponge itself was created by splitting a four egg sponge cake mixture into thirds. One third I left plain, the second batch I added two tablespoons of cocoa and the last batch I added some green food colouring.

I then added a scoop of each colour into a cupcake case and baked as normal. This created a nice surprise when people ate the cakes. I've turned the cake upside down to take a picture of it so you can see the three different colours easily. 

They were then topped with camouflage icing made using a mixture of black, brown and green icing rolled out and cut into circles for the top of the cakes. They can be seen below on the bottom row. I topped them with red '18's.

The tent on the cake was made from the same camouflage mixture and topped with the camouflage icing. Here it is 'naked' below along with a couple of the cupcakes.

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Military cakes

Attention! By the left, eat cake!

The military cake project turned out to be great fun. Here's the resulting cakes, taking pride of place at the birthday bash.

The main cake was designed by my other half and he made the soldier and the rifle. I think he had fun and it was lovely to sit down as a family and make the toppings for our cakes. Even baby puddle duck got involved!

The cake itself is Victoria sponge covered in a crumb coating, before being topped with icing using the grass nozzle (still my favourite).

The tent is a cake cooked in a small loaf tin, frozen, trimmed to shape before a crumb coating. I then created a camouflage design by rolling out green icing leaving it quite thick, placing black and brown patches of icing on top and then rolling the whole thing out again. I put a square triangle of black icing at the front and back of the tent and when the camouflage icing was draped over the tent shape, I created a little 'door' at the front and trimmed the excess 'canvas'.

I then placed the tent on top of the cake and added the grass. (Please ignore the messy work station in pic above - as posted before I have the tiniest kitchen in the world and end up working on top of myself most of the time!)

The cake looked a bit bare at this stage, so I used some of the sponge that I had trimmed from the tent shape cake and created little mounds on the cake board which I then covered in a crumb coating and iced grass on top. I also iced a little grass for the rifle to sit on as it got a little bit lost on the cake board which had been covered in chocolate icing before mixing a little of the green icing in too to add texture. This was all applied pretty roughly with a spatula.

After I'd iced the cake and topped with the tent, I didn't really know where to put the soldier and his rifle and backpack. I ended up just putting him by the side of the cake / tent and giving him a little fire to keep warm. This was made from chocolate strands for the wood (fairly cheap from Morrison's) and some citrus strands for the fire.

These cupcakes are described in a separate blogpost as wanted to give them their own post they are so special!

I've also done another post on camouflage sponge cake.

Camouflage Army Cakes

My nephew is 18 this week and my sister in law has asked me to make his birthday cake. He's in the army so we thought a military cake theme would be nice.

I've googled a few ideas and think I will try some of these.i hope no one minds me linking to their pictures, I have stated the sources and am definitely not trying to pass off any of these amazing creations as my own (mine will not look as good as these!).

How about making the cupcake itself a camouflage cake? From http://www.my-creativeway.com/2011/06/tutorial-how-to-make-camo-cupcakes.html

These camouflage cupcake toppers were created by  http://www.cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/camouflage-basketball-and-wu-tang-red.html

 These soldier toppers are just the cutest: http://curiouscupcakes.livejournal.com/843390.html

I would love to  be good enough at cake decorating to command the £125 that http://www.thecakestore.co.uk/army-cupcake-tower/ is offering this collection at!

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I think I will make one large cake and cover with camouflage icing, some lettering that I will make from icing run outs and toy soldiers finished off with a black ribbon.