Bella's cake

So this week has been huge - hence the silence in blog land!

This week I had two cakes to make.  My October bride's cake for today, Jess is getting married this afternoon: Happy Wedding day Jess!

And a birthday cake for Bella.

My lovely friend Kate asked me if I would do a cake topper for her daughter Bella's birthday.  I previously made some flowers for her younger daughters birthday a few months ago, and she wanted something special for her Bella's birthday too.

As Kate's daughters are chalk and cheese this cake topper had nothing to do with flowers and girly things like last time, this cake was all about the Penny.

I thought I had not heard of a Penny however once Kate showed me some photos, of course I new what she was talking about! I remember having one of these when I was a kid, apparently they are having a big come back!

 So using this photo for inspiration:

I printed out a photo of the board and got started making myself a template. Kate asked that instead of having the word Penny in the middle of the board we replace that with Bella, so I found a font that was as close to the Penny font as possible so I could use that as a letter guide. 

After getting the shape right I cut out the letters for Bella. 

Although I coloured the fondant icing for the board blue, it is not really possible to get a strong blue colour without 'paining' or 'dipping' on the colour with a colour and alcohol mix.

Once the desired colour was achieved it was then just a matter of attaching the letters:

And the lovely Kate sent me a photo of the finished cake:

Happy Birthday Bella!