Peppa Pig Cake

I was asked to make a Peppa Pig Cake for my friend's little boy who turned 2 last week. Peppa pig is his favourite and he had a Peppa Pig themed party. I've never made one of this before so I did a little research on the internet and decided to give it go. Luckily it turned out well and the birthday boy was extremely happy! He wanted a chocolate cake so I made my trusty Nigella Chocolate Cake which never fails. I baked the cakes on the first day, decorated on the second day (approximately 3 hours) and served it on the 3rd day. The cakes remained moist and delicious and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it. I also made cake pops with the cut offs but those were less successful. 

 I enlarged and printed a picture of Peppa Pig that I found on the internet to use as my template 

 I made a double recipe and baked 1 round and 1 square cake 

 Using the picture as  a guide, I cut out the head 

 and the body 

 covered in chocolate buttercream and placed in the fridge to set 

 I used the pic as a guide to cover the board with fondant  

 I used blue fondant for the sky and green for the grass. I cut some cloud shapes using white fondant and rolled out 2 white circles for her eyes. The pupils are edible black icing as I didn't have any black fondant 

 The 'muddy puddle' is made of chocolate icing and I cut out the shape of the number 2 to place on her body 

 The finished product

 making cake pops 

 I forgot to shape the ears! oops!

 I decided to try out my new food coloring markers that I bought from America 

 However, it didn't work well on the cake pops so I ended up using writing icing for some of them 

 Not brilliant but it passes for a pig!  

Happy Birthday again H !