Super Mario cake
Our Super Mario cake with lemon bases and buttercream is a real eye-catcher: you can easily conjure up piranha plants and super mushrooms from fondant.
With our step-by-step instructions, it’s guaranteed to be a success.
INGREDIENTS
FOR THE STARS (6)
20 g yellow fondant
Black food coloring pen
FOR THE PLANTS (3)
30 g green fondant
20 g red fondant
10 g white fondant
FOR THE MUSHROOMS (3)
30 g beige fondant
60 g red fondant
10 g white fondant
FOR THE GOLD COINS (6)
30 g beige fondant
Golden food coloring powder
Super Mario cake figure approx. 6 cm high (toy department)
FOR THE DOUGH
300 g soft butter
300 g sugar
1 pinch of salt
7 eggs (size M)
4 organic lemons (zest)
350 g wheat flour (type 405)
3½ tsp baking powder
60 ml milk
FOR THE BUTTERCREAM
180 g sugar
50 ml Water
3 egg whites
300 g butter (room temperature)
blue food coloring (fat-soluble)
ALSO
Some vegetable fat for working with
Some cornstarch for working with
Some butter for the molds
PREPARATION
1st step
Make the sugar decorations the day before: For the stars, roll out the yellow fondant thinly and cut out 3 small and 3 large stars. As soon as they are dry, paint on the eyes. For the carnivorous plants, make 3 flower pots, 6 leaves and 3 stems from the green fondant.
Cut out 3 circles from the red fondant and cut out a “piece of cake” for the mouth. Cut out approx. 15 small circles and 12 narrow strips from the white fondant for the mouth of the plants and stick them onto the red circles with the edible glue.
Our tip
Coloring fondant
You can color fondant yourself in the appropriate colors in the quantities given here and pack it airtight. To make the figures you need some vegetable fat and some starch.
