“Wake up, Luigi! The only time plumbers sleep on the job, is when we’re working by the hour!” – “Butch Mario & the Luigi Kid”
For those of you who remember Philip and his Mario cake (1 of my first cakes) will know that Philip is now 1 year older. For his 6th birthday he requested a Luigi cake.
Yay!! Luigi gets the lime light this time round.
Well in actual fact Philip was lucky enough to get two cakes – 1 for Kindergarten which was the Luigi cake and 1 for his party which was a pull apart soccer cupcake cake (yet to be posted).
Now I could have made something similar to his Mario cake and just change Mario to Luigi but I wanted it to be different and I wanted the cake to have some height and I don’t mean a tall cake.
I used the same method of making the fondant decorations as with the Mario cake but this time I themed Philip’s name to match.
For Luigi I used the same method as I did for Mario except I used an oval-shaped cutter for this face and defined the chin area but cutting it slightly to a pointer shape.
As you can see I used very basic cookie cutters to build the characters. I didn’t have a star cookie cutter so I printed out a star, cut it out and used that as a template. So as you can see you can make impressive fondant decoration with simple tools and techniques.
The cake was a classic chocolate cake which I baked in 2 x 8″ rounds and sliced in half to get 4 rounds. I covered it in blue buttercream and to create the cloud effect I used a standard round tip which I piped and then pulled to the right as pressure was released. Another method would be to pipe a blob then use the back of a spoon and smear the frosting to the right (or left if you prefer).
So what do you think?
Here is Luigi at Kindergarten where he received a lot of ooOooOos and ahhhhhss from the kiddies and the birthday boy was very pleased with his birthday cake which made me very happy of course 🙂
I know I haven’t been around a lot but you can always follow me for quick updates and baking pics on Facebook or Twitter. I look forward to face-booking or tweeting with some of you 😉
I have entered Luigi into the Baking Atelier competition #bakevie #kitchenaid.
I would really love to win the beautiful blue Kitchen Aid they are giving away as I bake so much that it would really be a fantastic ‘aid’ in my kitchen and
what better help can 1 ask for than a KitchenAid.
😉
omg this is too cute…and i love those characters in mario… u r so talented my dear!
Wowww!! Sure do love the cake! Count my vote in 🙂
xx Chaicy – Style..A Pastiche!
Lovely cake!
I am so hungry now. Love the photos and the cake. You made an amazing job there!
your cake looks AWESOME!! 😀 congrats!!!
Stunning cake! I wish someone made me pieces of art like this
Wooow!!! So gorgeous and looks yummy ❤
Wow!!!! You did an amazing job!!
Thank u 🙂
oh wow this is amazing! I’m happy you are back – I was missing you and your yummiest cake ever.
xxx
Thank Hun. Have missed you all too. Sorry just been so busy with our businesses that blogging has been put aside but latest bakes are always on fb & twitter 😉
OMG!! So cute!!! You got my vote!! :))
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This is so beautiful! What a smooth buttercream finish. I can never achieve that kind of finish in our hot weather. Great job!
wow you really do have talent! the cake looks absolutely delish!
This is friggin amazing! My vote is yours! =)
Omg i want this!!! so cute ❤
i want this cake!!! voted 🙂
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Wow! The cake looks amazing!
That is soooo awesome!! Philip is so lucky!! I just love the decoration so much that I wouldn’t have the heart to cut it!! 😀
OMG! The cake is so cute! Voted for you hun! 🙂
Thanks sweetie 🙂
I love the cake! ❤ Voted dear 🙂
Thank u! thank u! 😀
done!! voted!love the cake!so pretty!!
That’s great Maia, thank you sooo much!!
Absolutely AMAZING!!! You are so so talented, I love this!
Thanks Caity!!! All the kids thought he was AMAZING too 😉 I hope Luigi received 5 bright pink fashionable stars from you 😀
The cake also makes me think of fluffy clouds! ugh so cute!
It does doesn’t it 🙂 hope he received 5 stars from you 😀
the cake is LOVELY! super cute and fluffy!
Such a pretty and cute cake!
Omg super cute!!! I wish l had your skill! Even if it’s 10% only I wouldn’t mind!!!
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That is an amazing cake! Good work!
Thank you, it was really fun to make 🙂
I hope you gave Luigi 5 stars 😉
I most certainly did! Good luck!
OooOo thanks Hun 🙂
Impressed! The cake is neatly decorated!
Thank you sweet KJ 🙂
I’m hoping my vote is in. I did translate the page into English, and clicked on five stars. Should go through. Love the look of the cake, even though I don’t know the characters. I’d be more than happy with a birthday cake if it looked that good!
Thank you so much for you vote Johnny & for the lovely comment 🙂
I’m sure your vote went through, did you click on ‘Absenden’ after?!
Must’ve done as it gave me differing text. It’s funny, I’ve travelled all over Europe with English as a first language and a little knowledge of Spanish and French. Yet! Voting for your cake really confused me 🙂 That’s online for you.
Haha oh dear u make me laugh. I will update my post with clearer instructions 😉 I just assume everyone knows what to do.
🙂
I’m easily confused! Besides, I’m British so I expect everything to be in English!?
I think he’s fantastic! I’ve voted for you 🙂
Thanks Sam
Wonderfull!
Crazy awesome! My vote is in. 🙂
Thank you hun !!!