Playing with scales (not the kind you weigh ingredients with) is always a fun thing to do with cake! We’re often asked to design and create adorable miniature cupcake decorations like these tiny French patisseries or oversized cupcakes with huge rainbow sprinkles. Last week we created a giant Xbox controller cake with a playful Minecraft theme for a definite gaming fan!
The cake itself is a super tasty and fragrant vanilla cake filled with our own fresh raspberry preserve and Madagascan vanilla buttercream, smoothed with white chocolate ganache and iced with marshmallow fondant - always a popular request!
We baked three sheet cakes before levelling, filling and stacking each to form a 4 inch tall rectangular cake. Then it was time to carve and add contour to create the iconic Xbox controller shape before crumb coating and chilling.
One of our favourite parts about this cake is the dark woodgrain effect board. The deep brown adds a little more focus on the bright white controller and the lime green of the grosgrain ribbon trim and gum paste creeper figure.
All of the little details that adorn the oversized Xbox controller cake are completely edible from the silver joysticks to the bright buttons! Each were shaped, indented with detail and then hand-painted with confectioner’s glaze or lustre paint to really bring them to life.
This cake made its way to a lively birthday party to be enjoyed by guests. We know that the lucky recipient is a big fan of fondant icing and has saved the lime green creeper character… possibly as a tasty treat later!
