ELBOWS!

Fad can't get off a chairlift without sticking his elbows out and knocking down the unfortunate person either side of him, this is a fact of life. For his birthday I decided to put this phenomenon on a cake!

I baked a square marble cake, covered it in white icing and then made a chairlift out of sugarpaste and white chocolate Mikado biscuits (they worked amazingly!) I then made Fad, April and myself out of sugarpaste and  positioned on the cake, affixed with edible glue.

The skis are more Mikados (coloured with blue food colour paste) and the ski poles are spaghetti strands coloured black! Very easy.

The face detail was done with my black felt tip food colour pen. I added icing sugar and snowflake sugar decorations to give the surface a bit of texture.

I made Fad out of sugarpaste and then stuck him to a cardboard backing to keep him upright. The elbows were easy to keep in place - I just joined them to the chairlift!

Swoooosh

I made my ma and bro a ski themed cake for their birthday:

I stacked two circular sponges and then shaped them to vaguely resemble a moutain, before covering in white roll out icing and placing on a cake board. Next, I scattered icing sugar over the whole cake for a snow effect and added snowflake shaped sprinkles (thanks, Waitrose!) before decorating with flags (oh, more cocktail sticks!) and real (yes, real!) fir trees with the ends sellotaped so not to ruin the cake. I made the skis from icing and then the figures are actually Star Wars action figures - Princess Leia and Boba Fett! - with my ma and bro's faces stuck on. Easy peasy!