One thing is definite for us at Juniper Cakery; our friends and family get excited every time a special occasion arrives. This weekend we took all of the ‘subtle’ hints from our dads and created two very special cakes for Father’s Day! Yesterday we shared an elegant Wedgwood inspired cake we made for one of our fathers and their love for all things Wedgwood. Today we get to share this lovely bird house cake we created for a keen bird and garden enthusiast.

This cake was fun for us to make especially as we had the chance to try out some new techniques. We created a wood grain effect on the drum and roof, painted a rustic yet worn look to the actual house, hand painted a lovely little blue tit bird and hand made some subtle white primroses too.

To create this cake we stacked our layers, stabilised them all with a dowling rod and then carved the cake to shape before smoothing over with chocolate ganache. We then created templates based on the cake’s dimensions, cut out the bird house panels in fondant and fixed them on before working on the rooftop and adding detail.

The cake itself is a super luxurious triple chocolate fudge cake; chocolate cake filled with chocolate buttercream and them smothered with a delicious chocolate ganache! We were, of course, extremely happy to have eaten a slice or three! It was a shame to have to cut it up though.