I was so delighted to be asked to make a birthday cake for a gorgeous young lady, Krista. Her mom, Sara is our very good friend, asked me to bake a Totoro themed cake for her daughter. As soon as I heard Totoro, oh boy, I was so excited. It had been a couple of years since I saw the movie. So, I pulled out my DVD and enjoyed watching the movie again, but this time with my baby boy, Benjamin. I just adore Hayao Miyazaki's movies.
This is one challenging sculpted cake to make. The cake was a vanilla sponge cake, which is not intended to be used for carving cake because of its delicate texture. However, I managed to pull it through as shown in this picture. The filling was a delicate and rich chocolate Ghirardelli buttercream.
The cake was covered in fondant. Piped grass was made of vanilla buttercream and adorned with cut out colored flowers.
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