Dad's Burger Cake

Wednesday is my dad's birthday but since he works nights and we do family dinner on Sundays we decided that tonights dinner would be his birthday dinner. Then Wednesday we are going out to breakfast and next Saturday we are going out for dinner. So really we are going to be celebrating birthday week. I was in charge of making the cake and decided to make him a burger cake after seeing a few around the internet.

I used a bit of each of the cakes I saw online to make my cake. I used 2 recipes from Crabapple Bakery recipe book. I used the basic vanilla cupcakes recipe and the basic chocolate cupcakes recipe. I split the vanilla batter into two cakes and then for the chocolate I just made half of the batter.

The "mayo" was made from cream cheese icing and the "cheese" was made from fondant. This was my first time using fondant and it was a lot easier to use than I expected. Colouring of it was a bit of a pain because I only had liquid colouring. I think next time I make a fondant cake I will try and get colouring paste or possibly buy coloured fondant.

For the "lettuce" and "tomato sauce" I made a batch of buttercream icing which I then split into two bowls and coloured with liquid colouring. The red icing took nearly half a bottle of colouring to get the right colour. For the "tomato sauce" I simply spread the icing over the chocolate cake but for the lettuce I piped it in a ruffle around the cake with a petal tip.

I also used some fondant to make "sesame seeds". I just rolled a small amount of fondant into a ball then pinched one end to give it a seed shape. The fondant was slightly sitcky from being rolled so they stuck to the top of the cake quite easily.

This is by far the coolest cake I have ever made! I had so much fun making it and dad loved it. Let me warn you though if you are going to make this cake you only need to cut the tiniest slivers to eat. There is so much cake and icing you can only eat a tiny piece at a time.

And here is one last photo of dad and his cake. Happy Birthday week dad!