How to make a Baby Elephant Cake - highlights | Baby Elephant cake tutorial | CakeFlix video

How to make a Baby Elephant Cake - highlights | Baby Elephant cake tutorial | CakeFlix video

Learn how to make this Baby Elephant cake.

In this video you will get an overview from the artist Paul Bradford followed by a selection of the key learning points to make this amazing eye-catching guitar cake.

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Paul introduces us to his gorgeous Baby Elephant Cake that is fantastic for a boy or girl's celebration cake.
We're sure this will be a popular one amongst the kids - the baby elephant is quite irresistible!
The cake can easily be adapted to suit any occasion with simple changes of sugarpaste colour and additional decorations.

The design includes lots of brilliant techniques that can be used time and time again. This cake is aimed at intermediate level cake decorators and will take two half days to make, allowing for drying time.

🍰 Ingredients:

Cake: 10” Square Chocolate Cake

Ganache: 600g Dark Chocolate Ganache

 Sugarpaste:
2.5kg White
500g Grey
30g Medium Blue
20g Black
20g Lemon

Cake Card and Drums:

10” Round Cake Card
12” Round Cake Drum

Dusts and Paints:

Shadow Grey (Sugarflair)
Pure White (Sugar-Mill)
Black Knight Airbrush Paint (Sugar-Mill)

Other:
Icing Sugar
High Percentage Alcohol
CMC

🎨 Decorating Steps:
1️⃣ Design and Carving the cake.

2️⃣ Ganache and cover the cake.

3️⃣ Adding the head and making the legs.

4️⃣ Adding the trunk, ears, eyes then details to body.

5️⃣ All important finishing touches.