If you’ve got a vision of your dream birthday cake, but don’t fancy investing time in baking it yourself or spending a load of cash to get a professional to make your dream a reality, learn from Rebecca Adshead Williams.
When Rebecca was planning her 40th birthday party, she had her heart set on a hedgehog themed cake – but she couldn’t find one in any supermarket.
Rather than giving up on her dream cake, Rebecca got crafty.
She picked up a plain chocolate sponge for £3.50 from Tesco and set to work transforming it into her birthday hedgehog.
Lucky for us, she shared a video of the DIY project on her Instagram, in case anyone finds themselves in the same predicament.
The cake makeover only took about 20 minutes – so it was far easier than making a cake from scratch.
She began by slicing the sides off the chocolate sponge and placing these sections on to the base of the cake, curved side up. Then the front of the cake was trimmed into a triangle to form a pointy nose.
Rebecca slathered the cake with a thick layer of icing, added rows of chocolate buttons for the hedgehog’s spikes, and placed two white buttons on the face for eyes. The cake was finished with a chocolate nose.
The end result does look rather like a hedgehog, doesn’t it?
Rebecca’s friends and family were pretty impressed – as was everyone on the internet.
‘I had looked in all the supermarkets for a [hedgehog cake] but no one had any,’ Rebecca told Metro.co.uk.
‘I love hedgehogs! My cake couldn’t have been anything else!
‘It was only made because I wasn’t able to find one in the shops and after all this, I’m so happy that I couldn’t.’
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