My sons 13th birthday party and my mum and I decided to make a drum cake – here’s how we did it.
We made 9 8 inch sponge cakes and 2 12 inch sponge cakes. I used Myrna’s hot butter milk sponge for a never fail cake and for the 12 inch cake i added a table spoon of cocoa and a tablespoon of drinking chocolate to make a chocolate birthday cake.
To sandwich the cakes together we used our buttercream icing, Lurpak I find keeps the icing white.
I made 4 “drums” – 2 with 2 cakes sandwiched together (1 8 inch and one 12 inch) and then 1 drum cake had 3 cake layers and the last one had 4 layers.
I covered all the cakes in buttercream icing and then got some ready rolled icing and died it red. I rolled it out and stuck it around the drums and then I used kitkats to make the struts on the side of the drums. I finished it off with silver foil at the top and at the bottom of the drums.
The symbols are plastic garden plates covered in gold paper -
I was completely stressing out over the pattern on the football – I know it’s a bit over the top really as the fact that it was round was good enough for all the little 8 year old boys. But I didn’t realise at first that football patterns are made up of hexagons and pentagons. And then when I tried to copy my sons football, it wasn’t the traditional black and white variety that I think of , but a new FiFa designed football.
