Paintball Cake

The paintball cake gave me another chance to try moulding different coloured fondants together to get a design like camouflage. The first time I tried this technique was for the Mulberry handbag cake which was covered in leopard print fondant and was more difficult to do because of the larger area to cover.

I had fun making the figures as I got to splatter them with yellow and blue fondant to make it look like paint spots. The figures were the only none edible part on the cake as I used a cocktail stick for the paintball guns and put one inside each of the figures to help keep them stable.

The boulders and tree trunk were made with rice crispies and chocolate then covered in grey fondant for the boulders and brown for the tree trunk.

With the cake being for children I wanted to keep the fondant to a minimum, so the top of the cake was covered in green vanilla butter cream which was piped on to give a grass effect. To keep the figures from going mussy from the butter cream I used some of the crumbs from the rice crispies to make it look like the grass had been trodden away.

The trees around the outside of the cake were made with green fondant cut out tree shapes (two for each tree) and then stuck either side of a mint matchstick. To keep them in place I used some of the left over icing.

I was really pleased with the finished cake even with the few minor glitches like the nose falling of the blond haired figure a couple of minutes before it was picked up, thankfully I had some edible glue handy. But other than that it went well.