Step 4: Use hot glue to attach a feather (or two) to each DIY flamingo cake topper. Step 3: Attach a front (face) flamingo and back (blank) flamingo to each skewer, using hot glue.
These will be the front of the toppers, and the remaining blank cutouts will be the back. Step 2: Add a face to half of the flamingos using adhesive vinyl, paper, or marker/pens. You’ll need two cutouts for each cake topper. I used a cutting machine and this design, but you can also cut a flamingo silhouette by hand. Step 1: Cut the paper in the shape of flamingos. Here’s what you need to make your DIY Flamingo Cake Topper: They’re super easy to make, but look how cute they are! Keep reading for the tutorial… DIY Flamingo Cake Topper Tutorial So when we were planning a little party for her, a flamingo theme was the natural choice! These DIY Flamingo Cake Toppers were the perfect way to dress up the birthday cake to fit the theme. This was such a pretty cake (and oh so pink) that we didn’t want to see it leave us.My bird-obsessed, pink-loving little girl turned two last week (insert all the tears – stop growing up!!!!). These added a luxuriously soft and ruffled look sat amidst the macarons and candy feathers!
FLAMINGO CAKE FULL
They were quite large and full with a few shades of pink in them. The pretty pale pink roses dotted around this flamingo cake were from The Orange Grove flower shop in Hessle. To incorporate this colour we made the darker feathers to almost match. If they were any paler they would have began to look peach-like due to the slight caramelisation when baking (it adds a yellow tint to them).
The Lemon & Passion Fruit macarons nestled amongst the feathers and roses were in our popular blush pink tone. We then added different shades of light pink around the cake making sure each element was kept a couple shades lighter or darker. For this we created the flamingo head and board out of the same blush pink, but kept the ganache on the cake a shade or two paler. The overall cake had to stay pretty pale in colour, but getting a few different subtle tones in helps add interest. Facial features were added using black fondant and sweet little blushed cheeks from some pink edible petal dust! We freehand sketched a template on parchment paper making sure it stuck to a good size / dimension. This also had to be created a fair few days in advance so that it had enough time to set well. The neck was kept a little shorter to keep the whole piece nice and stable. We used a pale pink modelling / gum paste (fondant with CMC powder added) to create the chic flamingo head and neck.
FLAMINGO CAKE HOW TO
Chocolate is great to use, but we didn’t want to risk the feathers softening and melting at all.īy the way… we have a tutorial on how to make those brushstrokes! Pretty in pink flamingo cake! It may have been cold weather, but we needed to think about in car heating too. Using Wilton Candy Melts made the feathers a lot more durable than if we used chocolate. Then for the pale edible brush strokes we combined half and half of the pink and white. We added a few of the melts to the standard pink for the slightly darker tone. This had to encompass two different light tones of pink. Smoothed with pale pink passion fruit ganache and adorned with a flurry of ice and blush pink candy feathers, pink macarons and soft blush roses this flamingo inspired cake is pretty fancy!įor the gorgeous textured ‘feathers’ on this flamingo cake we created custom coloured mixes using Wilton Candy Melts in pink and bright white. In the middle of a freezing cold autumn we created this fun and tropical inspired flamingo cake! It definitely brightened up our day.
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