50th In Greece..Opa!
Or..something like that. Maybe not in Greece, but resembling Greece! So my old neighbor asked me to decorate a cake for a friends 50th birthday, and the birthday theme was Greece! So I decided to come up with a Santorini inspired cake! I used fondant for the top and cut it out to look like the skyline, with the famous blue doors and roof. I used graham cracker crumbs for the sand and made a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream =) I like the way it turned out, and the birthday girl loved it!
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Tags: 50, 50th, birthday, Cake, fondant, Greece, Greek, vanilla
June 29th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
What a gorgeous cake! I haven’t worked with fondant yet but it really adds something special. I’m very partial to the sand and the cute little seashell… white chocolate?
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July 1st, 2009 at 12:11 pm
amazing idea! what did you use for the sand??
July 1st, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Cake looks great! I love the authentic-Greekish looking letters too!
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Alyssa: Thanks! The sand is just graham cracker crumbs, stuck on with a little icing underneath
Sean: Thanks! =)
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Elissa: thank you =) yes fondant is fun to work with! and ya that little seashells are made from white chocolate
July 10th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Great job! Looks good.
~ingrid