Birthday Chocolate Cake - Chocolate Cake with Fondant Tools

"Very creative birthday chocolate cake idea!"

Things you need to decorate the cake:

• Chocolate butter icing

• Fondant for the tools

• Toothpicks

Cake decorating tips:

• Make the fondant tools a few days ahead. I used white fondant and shaped it into tools as shown:

• Poke a toothpick on the back of each tool. Leave them to harden for at least 1 day.

• Once the tools are set, paint them using your choice of colors. I used Wilton colors for all the tools.

• Prepare your cake and place it on a cake board.

• Cover the cake with chocolate butter icing.

• Here, I used the rope border technique for the cake border. You can, off course, choose a different border if you like. Click here for other cake border ideas.

• Finally, arrange the tools on the cake as you like. The toothpicks attached to the tools will help to hold them in place on the sides of the cake.

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