Stitch Taart
I made this cake for my sisters birthday. She really likes Stitch! And a week before her birthday I thought why not make a cake for her. This is finally an opportunity to bake a cake again xD So let’s do this!! Then I was thinking about what kind of cake. And last year we went to Disneyland together and took a picture with Stich together because she wanted it so badly xD so because of that I decided to make a Stitch cake!
For the cake itself, I baked vanilla cake in two 6” tins and two 6” sphere pans. The two normal cakes I cut in have so I had 4 layers for the body and the spheres I just levelled and stacked them. I filled them both with chocolate ganache and strawberry slices, yum!! For the body, I put a 4” board on top and cut it diagonal to the bottom so it was 4” at the top and 6” at the bottom. Then I crumb coated it with the ganache and started carving the head. I cut a flat bottom on one of the half spheres and placed the 4” cake board there and flipped it. When it was filled and the other half-sphere was on top, I started shaping his head. I made a cake pop mixture from the offcuts and a bit of ganache and stuck it on the sides of his head because Stitch doesn’t have en perfect circular head xD I also cut a bit of cake away where his eyes where gonna be. And I cut his mouth. Then crumb coated it all and put it in the fridge.
Then it was fondant time! I covered both cakes in the Stitch blue. And to be honest I covered his head twice because when I wanted to put his head on top it was waaaaaay bigger than 4 inches… so I had to cut it to shape more, and covered it again. That was quite a nerves part xD because it is a sphere and fondant does not really want to cover that shape nicely. So I took my time and smoothed it as best I could. And to prevent myself from making the same mistake twice I folded the fondant underneath the cake so if the head was still a bit too big you wouldn’t see the ganache. After that adventure xD I made the cake board by covering it with green fondant to represent grass. And with the help of Sweet Stamp in the fond Magical,
Which is pretty straight forward xD I just rolled some fondant and cut out what I needed and stuck it on haha. For the arms end legs, I shaped them first with some more of the cake pop mix and when they were set I covered them in fondant. And stuck them to the cake with some water. Apart from the ears, the cake is done! I had to bring my cake in the car for almost an hour in 28 °
To be very honest with you the ears gave me so much stress xD With making them the fondant cracked on me, so I had to do it again. And with putting them in they did not want to stay, so my sister held them up for me while I took the pictures hahaha thanks sis!! That was actually quite funny too hahaha.
All and all I had some stress but also a lot of fun making him! My sister liked the surprise of me bringing him and thought it was so cute! Her reaction when I lifted the box was amazing. I hope you had a wonderful birthday!!