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Instagram, Youtube & Emoji Cakes

February 27, 2017

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Chocolate Cake Icons And A Personalized Emoji Character!

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Bake Cakes

Prepare your Ultimate Chocolate Cake batter and divide it so there’s 2 ¼lbs batter in your 6” pans & 3 ¾lbs of batter in your 8” pans. Bake your 6” pans at 350 degrees for about 1 hour, and your 8” pans for about 1 hour 20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool cakes completely in their pans sitting on a wire rack.

Prepare Buttercream

Prepare your Italian Meringue Buttercream. Set aside.

Prepare Simple Syrup

Prepare your simple syrup and set aside at room temperature.

Level Cakes

Once your cakes are completely cool, remove them from their pans and level with a ruler and serrated knife. Make sure to save the “humps” (or cake scraps) from your 8 inch cakes, level and cut out an oval shape using both pieces (half an oval from each hump to make up the oval). We’ll be using this to create some dimension on our personalized emoji face later on!

Shape Your Social Icon Cakes

Round the four corners of your 6” cakes using a serrated knife. You can use a circle cutter or glass to indent where you want to cut to make sure you’re carving an even curve on all four corners.

Shape Your Emoji Cake

Print out a blown-up version of the “waving girl” emoji, so that it’s about 10” wide. Using both of your 8” cakes laid side by side, cut out your template and start to carve the basic shape of the emoji using a serrated knife. Move the excess cake to the top portion of the emoji shape to help build out your shape.

Note: If you feel more comfortable, you can bake your 8” cake portions into one larger rectangular pan, I chose to bake it this way because I get less waste.

Split Into Two

Once you are happy with all of your shapes, cut all cakes in half horizontally into two equal layers using your serrated knife. The emoji cake is a little tricky to cut in half because it is made up of pieces, so just take your time.

Shower With Simple Syrup!

Shower all of your cake layers with simple syrup, including the oval for your emoji face. Allow the simple syrup to soak in completely before moving on to the next step.

Fill With Buttercream

Ice each bottom layer with Italian Meringue Buttercream using your small offset spatula, then place the other half on top.

Crumb Coat & Chill

Crumb coat all three cakes with Italian Meringue buttercream using your small icing spatula & chill in the fridge for about 20 minutes.

Note: Make sure to crumb coat your oval hump separately! Do not place on top of your emoji cake yet.

Ice & Chill

Remove cakes from the fridge and ice again, making sure that the buttercream is completely level and even on all sides. Chill for another 20 minutes.

Dye Your Skin-Toned Fondant

To make the flesh tone fondant, take 1 lb of white fondant and dye it with enough Wilton Ivory food gel to achieve a similar flesh tone to your actual skin colour.

Note: This can change depending on what colour skin you have, so feel free to improvise a bit! I find brown food colouring is also helpful when making certain flesh tones.

Dye Your Purple Fondant

To make your purple fondant, take a ¾ lb portion of purple fondant and knead with ¼ lb of white fondant to achieve a nice bright purple tone.

Note: Again, feel free to get creative if you want your emoji character to wear a white, red, green - or even a rainbow sweater!

Cover Your Icons

Roll out your white fondant to be about ⅛ of an inch thick and cover each rounded square using a fondant smoother to get the fondant flush to the cake. Smooth the surface of the cake, then smooth out the sides until you reach the bottom. Trim away any excess fondant with your sharp paring knife.

Cover Your Emoji’s Face

Using the same method as above, roll out your skin-toned fondant to be about ⅛ of an inch thick and cover the hand section of your emoji cake. I find it helpful to smooth fondant around curves with my finger tips, or a smooth sculpting tool or dowel. Now cover the oval cake with the same flesh tone fondant.

Cover Your Emoji’s Hair

Continuing with the same method, roll out your brown fondant to about ⅛ of an inch thick and cover the area where your hair and face would be. Use a fondant smoother to keep the fondant pressed to the cake and trim away any excess with your sharp paring knife. Use your template as a guide for where your fondant colours will meet. You can cut it into sections and lay it on top to help you trim.

Cover Your Emoji’s Sweater

Roll out your purple fondant and cover the sweater and sleeve area of your emoji cake using a fondant smoother to keep the fondant pressed to the cake. Trim away any excess with your sharp paring knife.

FaceTime!

Place a dab of royal icing on top of the brown fondant and lay your oval face on top in place.

Add Some Details To Your Hair

Roll out some more brown fondant and drape on top of your emoji’s face to create a hairline and/or bangs, brushing on a bit of water to attach. Trim away any excess fondant using your sharp paring knife.

Decorate Your YouTube Icon Cake

Print out a blown-up version of the YouTube play button so that the entire square is 6-inches in width. Cut out the middle red play button portion, as well as the inner triangle. This will become your template. Roll out some of your red fondant nice and thin, lay your ‘red play button’ template on top, and cut out the same shape using a sharp paring knife. Glue to the surface of one of your white cakes by brushing on a bit of water.

Paint Your Instagram Icon Cake

In separate bowls, mix your Yellow, Pink, Blue & Purple icing colours together with some clear food grade alcohol and White food colouring. Paint each colour on your white cake in a diagonal pattern using your brushes. Before it dries, blend the colours all over especially in the regions where one colour meets the next with a makeup sponge to fully blend together, creating a gradient. Let dry before proceeding to the next step.

Decorate Your Instagram Icon Cake

Print out a blown-up version of the Instagram icon so that it is 6-inches in width. Cut out the square border portion of the icon, which you will be using as a template. Roll out some white fondant as thin as possible, lay your template over top and cut out using your sharp paring knife. Use your circle cutters to create the inner circle portion of the Instagram icon and your Round Piping Tip #809 to create the dot in the corner. Glue to the top of your cake with a bit of water.

Personalize Your Emoji’s Face

Decorate your emoji cake to look like YOU! Cut the details out of your template, or create your own features by hand. Roll out your skin-toned fondant about ¼ of an inch thick and use the circle cutter of your choice to cut out a nose. (I used an oval cutter instead, because I thought it looked closer to my own nose.) Roll out white, brown, black and red fondant as thin as possible. Use your template and a paring knife to cut almond shaped eyes from the white . Next, cut out irises and pupils from the brown and black using your round piping tips. (I even added a small white dot using my smallest piping tip so it looks like there’s a glint in my eye!) Cut the eyebrows out of the same brown fondant using the template. Finally, take a bit of your leftover red fondant (from your YouTube cake) and knead with a bit of white fondant until you create your favourite lip shade. Roll out the fondant and cut in a lip shape using a sharp paring knife. Place your fondant facial features on your emoji cake by brushing on a bit of water.

Note: Feel free to replace the colour of fondant if you want to give your emoji different-coloured eyes or lips!

Dress Your Emoji Up!

Roll out your remaining purple fondant about ¼ inch thick and cut out strands to form the collar and trim of your sweater sleeve using your sharp paring knife. Attach with a bit of water.

Add Lots (and LOTS) Of Hair

Using your clay extruder, attach the faceplate that has many holes usually used for grass or hair and press out many, many, MANY bands of brown fondant. Pull each individual strand apart and spiral around your wooden dowels. Let the fondant sit for a couple minutes to let the curls fully set, then brush a layer of clear piping gel onto the brown fondant on your cake. Add the curls one by one, building up the hair.

Get Handy!

You’ve decorated your face, your sweater and your hair - all that’s left is to give yourself a hand! (Get it!?) Roll out your remaining skin-coloured fondant as thin as possible and cut out the shape of a hand, making sure to create indents for your fingers. Attach by brushing on a bit of water.

Note: You may want to use the same emoji template that you printed out at the beginning, cut out the hand and use it to make sure you have the proper proportions.

Congratulations!

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