Drone Cake
Yesterday it was my brother’s birthday and he loves his drone. My Sister-in-law asked if I would make him a birthday cake featuring a drone. I’ve not made a celebration cake in a long time so I was excited to make it.
First thing I do when asked to make a cake is visit Pinterest where there is generally loads of inspiration. Sadly, I couldn’t find anything that I liked and drones made from icing looked pretty naff. (And I’m sure if I made one it would look even worse.) So I came up with an idea.
I searched online for a mini drone that would fit on the top of the cake. I was looking for a plastic figure of a drone, but then I found this mini one which was perfect. It actually works!
Decorating the Cake
Next step was to decorate the cake so I decided to go for a sky blue with clouds and a landing pad in the middle with a birthday message. I also made an icing figure of my brother. As I’d ordered the wrong tin for the cake I got to work on the icing figure and landing pad before making the cake. The idea was for the figure to be smaller than the side of the cake but after a little cake baking issues I ended up with a taller figure.
I made some posts for the drone to sit on out of icing, but the drone is free to fly away. The idea was to present the cake to my brother on his birthday and then he could use the controller to make the drone fly off and reveal the birthday message beneath.
My brother didn’t wait until his birthday, like a big kid he played with the drone straight away, and had much more control over it than we did. Here is a little video I made of us trying it out. It’s only a minute long. I’d love for you to subscribe to my Youtube channel, pretty please.
That is awesome!!
Thank you Kara
Hahaha, I love that cake! I’m also a drone lover, someone in my family needs to make me a drone cake!
They certainly do Bex 🙂
oh wow that is so awesome well done X #mysundaysnapshot
Thank you Sam
Ahh! I love it! Well done you. It looks fantastic and it is so cool that it flies too!
Thanks Kim, it was fun watching it fly around the pub at his birthday meal x
What a cool cake. How brilliant to find a real mini drone to use.
I know, I wasn’t even looking for a real drone, but once I found one it helped with the rest of the design of the cake
A perfect cake for a lot of the guys in my family! #MMBC
Yes, it went down well with the little lads at the party and I got asked by lots of parents where they could get one. It was a real bargain for just £8 on Ebay!
Such a clever cake! I love that you used a mini drone, rather than making an edible one. I also like that the man is taller than the cake as it stands out. I bet your brother was pleased. #MMBC
My brother really was chuffed 🙂
That is fantastic! I’m very jealous of your fondant icing skills. I’m terrible with it and just end up with cracks and tears! #MMBC
Thank you Sarah-Marie, I had to learn, my icing skills were pretty rubbish to begin with.
That’s very clever! #MySundaySnapshot
Thank you Mary
What a fantastic idea for a cake. I love how the mini drone flies away to reveal the message underneath. I think it works well with the taller figure. Brilliant.
Thank you Louise, I was so happy to find the drone, it gave me the inspiration for the rest of the cake.
That is so incredible! I am not surprised that you brother didn’t want to wait till his birthday. I couldn’t either! You really are a great sister 🙂
-Soma
Thank you Soma, my brother thinks so too 😉
I do love a fun birthday cake. this one is great, I love the drone idea. #Abitofeverything
We had great fun with it in the pub for his birthday meal. He managed to get the drone to land on the bar…pity we didn’t attach an order to it 🙂
That cake is amazing! You are so talented!!! You should open a bakery! 🙂
Thank you Laurie, I used to make lot of cakes, but I’m afraid it’s too much work for me now.
Wow what a cake. That is brilliant and truly fantastic. I love it xx #SundaySnap
What a brilliant cake. You did an amazing job!
#MMBC
That cake looks so yummy. Thanks for sharing it. #abitofeverything
What skills! Amazing work. #ABitOfEverything
I love this cake! I have a collection of little figures I’ve used for cakes. It really gives a cake the personal touch.
That is one seriously awesome cake – well done you! Thanks again for sharing your photos and for linking up with #MySundaySnapshot. x
This is amazing! Such a clever idea! #MySundaySnapshot
I love the idea of a cake thats also a toy, brilliant 😁
#abitofeverything
I am so sorry I am behind. catching up on three weeks worth of posts now!! #mysundaysnapshot
You did a fab job, I am rubbish at cake decorating. I bet he was happy.
what an idea drone on the cake epic keep making the cakes like these 😀
Such a fantastic idea. Thanks for sharing!
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