Hello Kitty Birthday Cake!

Sometimes the most fun cakes are the most straight forward to design and construct. Here’s a bright and simple birthday party cake that we created featuring a hand-made and edible Hello Kitty perched on top! We loved creating this sweet design plus the fairly plain cake left us with a great canvas to work on an adorable gum paste / modelling paste Hello Kitty character happily clutching a fondant / sugar paste balloon; perfect for a lively get-together!

Hello Kitty birthday cake by Juniper Cakery

Our design requests for this treat included an edible Hello Kitty figure, a white iced vanilla and strawberry cake with a white chocolate ganache, the colours pink and yellow and generally a need for an un-fussy but fun look. 

We added the cute little balloon to add a sweet playful look and feel to the cake. This was definitely one of our favourite things about the whole design, but we do love that the edible confectioner’s glaze painted onto the surface created a realistic shine!

Hello Kitty with balloon party cake by Juniper Cakery

Cute Hello Kitty cake by Juniper Cakery

Our little Hello Kitty was created using custom coloured gum paste / modelling paste and by carefully studying lots of images from official merchandise. It’s important when re-creating well known characters to pay close attention to the positioning of eyes, noses etc (an art school essential is being told that the ’empty’ space is an equally important part of the work). If it helps sketch out a character on grid paper while studying the subject and mapping out the distances between facial features.

Pink and yellow Hello Kitty cake by Juniper Cakery

To re-create this cake with a different spin some fabulous ideas would be to add white on white swiss dots around the sides with royal icing, make tiny fondant gifts to sit around the character’s feet or to create a large bundle of bright balloons to nestle into Hello Kitty’s paw!

 

Hello Kitty giant cupcake!

We finished this giant Hello Kitty cupcake last night. It was custom made for a customer as a congratulations cake. The ABC ‘sprinkles’ represent the lucky recipient’s A-Level grades. It is a chocolate cake with vanilla pod buttercream filling and frosting. We covered the ‘case’ with custom coloured fondant and decorated the cake with handmade edible blossoms, letters and a Hello Kitty centrepiece.

 

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