Baby Chick Cake

For my daughters 6th birthday she choose a baby chick theme because she got 4 baby chicks for her birthday present. She wanted a cute baby chick birthday cake. And I was good with this because I did not have a lot a time and two round circles seemed easy. Easy still takes hours but it was worth it because she loved this cake.

Steps to make Chick Cake

1. Bake 4 9-inch round cakes. Back 3 6-inch round cakes. cut off tops so they are flat for stacking.
2. Freeze cakes
3. Get cakes out of freeze layer the 4 cakes with butter cream – freeze again. Do the same for the 3 6-inc cakes.
4. When buttercream set up – carve the cakes in round shapes.
5. Stack the two round sections – remember to put sticks/supports in the bottom half or your head will fall off!! (yes this has happened to me 🙂
6. Now crumb coat and Freeze again (or put in the fridge like I had to do because my freezer is a drawer and does not take a tall stacked cake:))
7. Remove from freezer and add a nice layer of buttercream
8. Chill again
9. Now roll out a large round piece of Yellow fondant – mine had a circumference of about 27 inches! It was difficult to lift up and put on the cake but I didn’t want to cover the two sections individually and try to smooth out a neck line.
10. When you get that big piece of fondant on then start smoothing it down. Try to get the front of the cake smooth – you can make errors in the back because the wings of the chick can cover those! So aim for fondant folds or tears where you think those wings will go.
11. Decorating this cake is easy.
    1. Two round circle of black fondant for the eyes
    2. Two wings towards the back cut from yellow fondant – I cut some paper ones 1st to figure out the size and then when I found the best size to cover the fondant folding messy mistakes in the back of the cake, I used the paper as my template for cutting the actual fondant. Then attach with buttercream.
    3. Cut some feet and make a beak out of orange fondant and attache with butter cream and a toothpick
    4. Make some eggshell triangles out of white fondant and attach around the bottom
    5. Add some pretty flowers – I bought these from the cake store! saved a LOT of time and looked great!