Peppa Pig Rain Boots Cake

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Baking the Cake:

12lbs Yo’s Ultimate Vanilla Cake

Icing the Cake:

1 batch of Italian Meringue Buttercream

1 batch of simple syrup

Decorating the Cake:

Light pink fondant

Maroon fondant

Burgundy fondant

White fondant

Food coloring markers - black, pink, blue, red

Silver dragees

Silver lustre dust

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2 x 9x13" cake pans
Parchment Paper
Large Serrated Knife
Offset Spatula
Fondant Rolling Pin
Drawer Liner (spotted)

Bake Your Cakes

Line your pans with parchment paper and preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Prepare 12lbs of vanilla cake batter then divide it into two and dye half a teal blue and the other half yellow. Bake each cake

Level, Decaramelize, and Layer

Remove your cakes from their pans then level each one and remove the caramelization from the bottoms. Use a large serrated knife to cut each cake into two sheets.

Cut the Cake

Create a template of the sole of a boot then place it onto your stacked cakes and cut it out 4 times from each color so you have 8 single layers of each color. Cut your template in half then take the back part of the sole and cut it out 8 times from your cake layers - this will create the leg part of the boot.

NOTE: Make sure you flip the template so you get both shoes. Or if you forget, you can just flip the cake layers.

Keep It Simple!

Use Sir Squeeze A Lot to soak each of your cake layers with simple syrup. Let them sit for a couple of minutes to absorb.

Fill & Stack

Stack your cake in four parts: the two soles then the two legs. Begin by filling and stacking 3 sole layers with Italian meringue buttercream in alternating colors: teal, yellow, teal then repeat for the second boot. Now continue the color pattern and stack 5 leg layers starting with yellow and repeating for the second boot. Chill your cakes until firm.

Carve the Cake

Stack the leg portions of your cakes onto the soles then create a boot template. Carefully begin to carve away to create the shape of a boot with a large serrated knife. Volley back and forth between carving each shoe so that they are as symmetrical as possible.

TIP: Using templates is super helpful for ensuring that each boot is symmetrical - just make sure to flip the templates over for each foot so that they’re opposite.

Support

Once you are happy with the shapes of your boots, unstack the leg parts from the soles. Cut 2 cake boards out to the same shape as the sole of the boots cut two more out slightly smaller. Glue the two cake boards together - the smaller one will act almost like a heel to give the cake a sense of emptiness underneath. Glue the sole parts of your cakes to each cake board then insert dowels cut to the correct height. Cut out a small oval cake board and glue it on top then stack on the leg portion of the boot. Cut a dowel to the height of the entire cake then sharpen one end and insert it down the centre of the leg into the bottom cake boards.

Crumb Coat and Chill → Ice Ice Cakey

Use an offset spatula to crumb coat your each of your cakes with IMBC - make sure it’s fully coated and all curves are iced. Chill your cake in the fridge until firm then ice it once again using a square piece of acetate to smooth the edges out. Chill your cake once again.

TIP: If your cake still has any ridges after icing, wet your fingers a little bit then smooth them out.

FUNdant pt. 1

Roll out some thin black fondant then cut it in half and lay one half on top of each boot leg. Carefully trim the excess away. Roll out some thin colored fondant - white, burgundy, and maroon, into sheets then let them chill for several minutes.

FUNdant pt. 2

While your colored fondant is chilling, roll out a large light pink fondant sheet then carefully drape it over one whole boot - make sure it’s large enough to wrap around the whole boot with the seam in the back. Cut a clean seam down the back and trim away all the excess. Repeat for the second boot.

FUNdant pt. 4

Wrap masking tape around the top of each boot backwards (so that the sticky side is on the outside) then paint on some clear piping gel inside the tape. Cut four strips of the medium pink fondant and wrap two along the inside of the tape border on each boot (make sure no light pink fondant is showing).

Pink Detailing

Remove the masking tape then paint on some clear piping gel. Add another band of medium pink fondant around where the masking tape was to give it some thickness. Add another strip of pink fondant down the back of the boot.

FUNdant pt. 3

Roll out a medium shade pink fondant sheet then texture it with a drawer liner - mine had dots on it. Now cut two even bands then wrap them around the bottoms of each cake with the seam at the back. Use a ruler to cut ¼” off the bottom of the strip to create the emptiness underneath the cake.

Camouflage

Remove your chilled white, burgundy, and maroon fondant sheets from the fridge then take a small paring knife and begin to cut out a camouflage print from the white sheet. Stick them onto the cake then cut out more shapes from the other two shades and layer them on. Wherever the colors overlap, trim away the excess.

Buckle pt. 1

Roll out some grey gumpaste and use two square cutters to cut out square buckles - one larger square with the centre square cut out. Make a couple extras just in case.

Buckle pt. 2

Cut out the base of the buckle out of the medium pink fondant - I used another template for this. Cut out some more pink bands to add on top.

Buckles pt. 3

Brush the dry square buckles with shortening then use dry silver lustre dust and brush it over. Add the silver buckle to the buckle base. Add on two silver dragees.

NOTE: lustre dust gets everywhere so be careful.

Hunter Logo

Roll out some thin white gumpaste then cut it into rectangles. Use a black food coloring marker to write on “HUNTER” and then add on a red border with a red food coloring marker. Let it set slightly but before it dries completely, add it to the front of the cake.

NOTE: gumpaste is great for labels as it’s easier to write on with a food coloring marker but it dries quickly so in this case, it needed to be curved on the cake so I had to add it before it dried completely.

It's All in the Details

Cut out ¼” strips from the medium pink fondant and add it underneath the cake so that it looks like the heel of the cake. Cut out smaller pieces then add it along the bottom underneath again to create the boot treads.

Peppa Pig and George

Create templates for Peppa and George then roll out some pink, red, maroon, and blue gumpaste and cut them out - two of each. Use a pink food coloring marker to draw on and outline their faces then use the appropriate marker to outline their clothes as well - to give it the cartoon look. Make you flip one set over so that they’re the opposite for the other boot. Use a little clear piping gel to glue them on then with a marker, draw on their arms and tails directly onto the cake.