Blackboard Cake

I had been asked to make a birthday cake for a teacher who was going to be celebrating her 50th birthday and they thought it would be funny to include spelling mistakes and bad mathematics. The first thing I thought of was a blackboard cake with Happy Birthday spelt with letters and numbers and to create a sum that equalled 50 but actual equals 15.

The cake is a vanilla sponge with vanilla butter cream and covered in dark brown fondant for the border and black on top. I used red to cover the board and red royal icing to pipe the message onto the blackboard as red is her favourite colour. The chalk and board eraser are made out of fondant.