The Littlest Pet Shop snail birthday cake
Posted on October 5th, 2009 in Cake Lounge
So here it is, the birthday cake made for my nieces 10th birthday party today. I made the cake design very simple with a green stem going around the cake with one large leaf on top for the LPS snail to sit on. The cake was a plain chocolate cake as requested by my niece.
To finish the cake I placed some pink gerbera/daisy flowers, mostly to hide some minor cracks, but they did suit the soft yellow cake very well in the end.
Remember that you can see step by step of how I made the LPS snail (without written details though) in the gallery.
Happy Caking!
Louise
1. paula
October 5th, 2009 8:19 am
hallo louise,
your niece must have been very happy with her adorable birtdaycake……really lovely…..
gr paula
2. Miss Muffin
October 5th, 2009 11:08 am
So cute!
3. Trina
October 5th, 2009 11:46 am
Wow…. I love your cakes, you are so inspirational! Your niece must have loved this cake. How did you get the gold snail tips? Is there a special product to paint gold with? (Can you eat it?)
4. Nathalie
October 5th, 2009 12:58 pm
Omg the cake is just wonderful, do you have any tips for me, i want to start learning how to make theese wondeful gum paste figures, but i don’t know were to start, or wich tools i need
5. Corinna
October 5th, 2009 1:10 pm
absolutely gorgeous, I just love it. Lovely inspiration!
6. sema
October 5th, 2009 1:13 pm
sooo lovely!i loved it. this is really inspiring!
7. Natalie Davies
October 5th, 2009 1:13 pm
love it. really good idea and beautifully done x
8. Kati
October 5th, 2009 1:15 pm
adorable –many little girls would be very jealous of your niece, lol. soo cute!
9. Stella Holvey
October 5th, 2009 1:15 pm
Georgous cake, lovely snail but how did you do those wonderful eyes are they painted on and if so how?
regards
Stella
10. LO
October 5th, 2009 1:23 pm
My daughter is 5 and she LOVES LPS….. I wish I were as talented as you! This cake is soooo cute.
11. Lisa
October 5th, 2009 1:25 pm
Absolutely lovely Louise, well done!
I especially like the character, you did very well!
12. Carol
October 5th, 2009 1:27 pm
I loved,so cute
13. Vicki
October 5th, 2009 1:49 pm
Adorable!
14. Lyzzie
October 5th, 2009 2:15 pm
It’s beatiful and adorable cake
15. Jen
October 5th, 2009 2:20 pm
Really adorable! I would love some videos of you in action. Your work is so precise.
How I wish I had an aunt with your talent for cakes when I was growing up
16. kath
October 5th, 2009 2:35 pm
That is so cute! Louise, you do such beautiful work
Thanks for sharing all your tips and tricks with us too!
17. Pily
October 5th, 2009 2:37 pm
sooo cutee!!!!
18. Mattie Ausbrooks
October 5th, 2009 2:37 pm
OMG!!! The cake is so beautiful! I know your niece loved it.
19. Roses R Red
October 5th, 2009 2:40 pm
How cute!! I love the pink and green together.
20. Ruth
October 5th, 2009 2:50 pm
Awww…Too cute!!
21. Sue
October 5th, 2009 3:10 pm
WOW, I really don’t think you could get any better than this because it’s PERFECT!!!
22. mamazieza
October 5th, 2009 3:52 pm
Louise… it is soooo beautiful..
23. Bakee
October 5th, 2009 4:01 pm
Very nice, beautiful…
24. LynHitchins
October 5th, 2009 4:45 pm
Any little girl would be so happy to receive this cake.
25. Nancy Smith
October 5th, 2009 4:54 pm
So cute! You are such an inspiration!
26. aribian girl
October 5th, 2009 6:29 pm
so cute!!
27. Annette S.
October 5th, 2009 6:50 pm
Oh Louise, that is just the cutest thing I have seen, how adorable!!!! I absolutely love it.
BTW, our families visit from Denmark was fantastic, as was our 25th party. thank you so much for the recipes, I will be enjoying them for years to come!!!
Annette
28. Rita
October 5th, 2009 6:52 pm
So Cute
29. Sarah Fairlamb
October 5th, 2009 7:02 pm
That is just adorable! And thank you for showing how you made the snail.
30. Melanie
October 5th, 2009 7:13 pm
Adorable!
31. Camilla (Himmelske kager)
October 5th, 2009 8:50 pm
Oh, it is soo cute, Louise. Thanks for sharing the step by step guide.
32. A Joyful Chaos
October 5th, 2009 9:17 pm
What an absolutely adorable cake! You are very talented.
33. Louise
October 5th, 2009 10:52 pm
Trina: I painted that with some edible gold lustre dust.
Nathalie: There are a few good books on sugar modelling and then there are the great online tutorials by Lorraine McKay http://www.extraicing.co.uk/
Stella Holvey: I made the eyes from small cut out circles white & black. I made them 5 times before I was satisfied with them. The blue is painted with powder dusts and the black eyelashed is with a black food writer from Americolor.
Annette S: im so happy to hear that
34. ~Teresa
October 5th, 2009 10:57 pm
Beautiful
35. June
October 5th, 2009 10:57 pm
So cute Louise, thanks for sharing how you made the snail! I love it.
36. just4cakes
October 5th, 2009 11:21 pm
Simple and beautiful
37. Sharlene
October 6th, 2009 3:07 am
Louise – I love it, love it, love it. The snail’s eyes are gorgeous… thank you heaps.
38. Nicole
October 6th, 2009 3:08 am
OMG!!! this looks absolutely A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E!!!
39. gabrielle
October 6th, 2009 4:59 am
So, so cute Louise. I have to show this to my colleague he will be so jealous, as I have just coached him through making a LPS cake for his daughter’s birthday. You had better be the best auntie in all the world after producing efforts like that.
40. nickee
October 6th, 2009 5:32 am
Happy bday to your niece!!! I love it…your cake is very cute!!!
41. Tanya
October 6th, 2009 6:47 am
So Cute! I love it!
42. Hanny
October 6th, 2009 7:15 am
The snail is so cuteeeee
43. Patricia
October 6th, 2009 4:05 pm
Soooooooo Cute!!!!! All your cakes are awesome.
44. MC
October 6th, 2009 5:23 pm
Is it weird that I want that to by MY birthday cake? Ugh, SO cute. I wouldn’t even want to eat it!
45. Tanja
October 6th, 2009 9:46 pm
Hi there! I have been watching Your blog a long time but haven’t send a comment, and I’m sorry about that. I also have bad english!
Your cakes are always so pretty and sophisticated, I like those very much!!
Have a nice day!
Tanja from Finland
46. Toi
October 7th, 2009 3:36 am
Absolutely the cutest!! I love it.
47. Kate Robinson
October 8th, 2009 5:02 pm
Louise,
What a beautiful design! You always amaze me! I know a whole lot of little girls who would go crazy for this!
Kate
48. Edith
October 8th, 2009 5:34 pm
Louise, this is stunning!
49. Nova
October 9th, 2009 6:25 pm
This is so cute! I have to make this for my girls. Thank you for the idea!
50. Elsa
October 10th, 2009 9:34 am
Magnifique !!
j’adore !
51. dpotter
October 11th, 2009 10:15 pm
Hi Louise, such a cute cake! can i ask you about the band around the bottom, i have the gun/extruder but find the sugar paste cracks alot, any advise on how to avoid this?
52. Emma
October 12th, 2009 4:19 pm
The pictures on your website are incredibly beautiful and capture the details amazingly. Are you using a special camera?
53. Icing Bliss
October 12th, 2009 8:35 pm
This is one of the cutest cakes I’ve ever seen. Terrific job! I’m sure your niece will be thrilled!
54. Louise
October 12th, 2009 11:33 pm
dpotter: Yep mix the SP with a little fat and few drops of water. This makes is much more pliable, just use a little or it gets too soft.
Emma: Im using Canon 400D EOS. I take all my photos in RAW+L
55. dpotter
October 19th, 2009 4:14 pm
thanks louise, i was thinking of your cake this weekend, i was in a shop and saw a knitted version of the snail, sooo cute! i wil try your tip later with regards to the sp and thanks again, if i can can i ask you about modeling paste, ive made my own but find the day after i add the tylo powder its too ridgid and i cant get it pliable enough to work with it comfortably, what am i doing wrong?
56. Louise
October 20th, 2009 8:18 pm
dpotter: Did you use “my” recipe for the modeling paste? 500g sugar paste/fondant, a bit of crisco, 1-2 tsp tylo and 2 tsp eggwhite?
57. dpotter
October 21st, 2009 1:07 am
I didnt try yours Louise but I will, I was using a one I got in a Debbie Brown book, do you make your own sugarpaste?
58. Keira
October 21st, 2009 9:02 am
So cute. But what about copyright laws? Granted, it was for a niece, so it was probably “gifted,” but do you run into problems just the same? I have a “no characters” policy, just because I dont want to mess with it, but it’d be nice if there were loopholes.
59. Louise
October 21st, 2009 10:32 pm
dpotter: No, I dont make my own sugarpaste only mmf now and then when im out of sugarpaste. I make the modeling paste with store bought SP
Keira: Well since I dont sell my cakes there is no problems making “characters” cakes. That is only if you have a shop and so that you cant make “characters” cakes. But it does surprice me that very high and renowned cake stores make such cakes. I would like you not do it.
60. Anonymous
October 25th, 2009 1:59 am
thanks louise, your a star, will you be doing anything for xmas?
61. lyndsay
October 25th, 2009 3:33 am
EEKS A SNAIL CAKE!!! so cute!!!
62. Jill
October 25th, 2009 6:36 pm
That’s adorable!
63. dai
October 26th, 2009 10:27 pm
I love all of your cakes! This one is so cute!! I was wondering where you get your cake bases from? The edges are so clean & the ones I get are so bumpy so when I put ribbon around it, it looks sloppy.
64. LPS Fan
October 30th, 2009 8:35 pm
beautiful cake, looks like somebody’s been watching the Cake Boss jj you really have an eye for details
65. Louise
November 3rd, 2009 12:13 pm
dai: Its all about the crumbcoating of the cake and who you cover it with fondant. There are loads of great podcast on that on youtube.
LPS Fan: I dont know if its me you are reffering to? But I cant see Cake Boss here in Denmark. This cake came from my thoughts and turned it into sugar and cake.
66. caitlyn willingham
December 26th, 2009 9:33 pm
I love the little snail alot. My birthday is today that is the cake i chose i love it alot. My mom got the snail shes a cake atast…
67. Laura W.
January 9th, 2010 10:59 pm
I LOVE this! I’m just googling ideas for my daughter’s 4th birthday cake (she decided on a LPS theme), and yours is darling.
68. Nina
January 21st, 2010 6:54 pm
Trop mignon;-)
Bravo!
Nina
69. Kerry Rowe
April 1st, 2010 7:41 am
Oh this is so gorgeous
70. vicki tran
May 11th, 2010 3:08 am
Thank you Louise for sharing. Is your SP the same as chocolate clay? Thank you.
Vicki
71. Louise
May 13th, 2010 10:49 pm
vicki tran: No, its like rolled fondant only I have added tylo powder to the RF.
72. vicki
May 17th, 2010 5:15 am
Thank you Louise! I just made a snail and a snake LPS 2 days ago for my little girl party on next Saturday and I used fondant not SP. The problem was, the snake head was cracked (not when I made it). I stored them in a air tight container but the fondant melted and the figured were distorted. Any suggestion? I thought I can make the figures ahead of time since I have to work so I do it when I can. What should I do? How far in advance can I make the figure and how should I store them? Please help! Thank you.
Vicki
73. vicki
May 17th, 2010 10:55 pm
How much Tylose do you add to the RF? What is the proportion? Thank you.
Vicki
74. Louise
May 18th, 2010 10:35 pm
Vicki: I use about 2 tsp to half pound of RF. Normally I just take a piece of RF and then just add the tylo, no excact measures. This way I may use more but then the RF will be very “strong” and dry hard. I never eat the decoration.
75. Lps
July 8th, 2010 5:47 pm
Can you eat the snail?