Marie the cat Buttercream birthday cake tutorial Aristocats

How to make this stunning Marie the cat cake! Something a little bit different this week, quite a simple idea that works really well. What types and styles of cakes do you want to see more of? :) Tools and products used in this video - To whiten the buttercream and the chocolate Zoe uses White colour mill food colouring https://bit.ly/wcolourmill If you want to use flavoured icing sugars to make the buttercream with Zoe suggests these https://bit.ly/scicingsugar 6 inch cake drum for under the cake https://bit.ly/cakedrums 10 inch marbled cake board https://bit.ly/marblemasonite Crisp pearls for adding to the buttercream (Zoe used dark chocolate ones) https://bit.ly/crispearls Palette knife for adding the buttercream to the cake https://bit.ly/35e9j77 Zoe uses a Kuhn knife for cutting the fondant https://bit.ly/kuhnrikonknives Tall metal scraper for smoothing the buttercream around the cake https://bit.ly/PMEtallscraper A turntable to make scraping the buttercream around the cake easier https://bit.ly/9inchturntable Carma white chocolate https://bit.ly/carmawhite Zoe uses Renshaws marshmallow flavour fondant for paw prints https://bit.ly/renshawextra PME paw plunger cutters https://bit.ly/pawplungercutter Small Rolling pin https://bit.ly/rollingpinPME Grease proof paper/ baking parchment paper for creating the chocolate sail on. Peg for clipping paper together. For the chocolate shapes Zoe uses a heart shaped mould and chocolate crown mould https://bit.ly/chococrowns Modelling paste for Marie so she dries firm https://bit.ly/whiteflowermodellingpaste Zoe uses a PME Dresden tool for marking around Marie https://bit.ly/PMEdresden For the lettering Zoe uses https://bit.ly/Vanillasweetstamps Thick pink ribbon to go around the cake. Rejuvenator to mix with the powder colours https://bit.ly/RejuvSpirit Black, Strawberry and Rose colour edible powders https://bit.ly/RainbowDusts A thick and a thin paint brush https://bit.ly/paintbrush_ Sprinkles you can use any you fancy, Zoe used these https://bit.ly/happysprinklebox Zoe also used this small craft knife for cutting around her lettering https://bit.ly/bluehandlecraftknife Zoe is working on a craft mat rather than directly on a work surface. https://bit.ly/craft_mat To see more of my cakes and creations please visit my pages below- Facebook   / zoesfancycakes   TikTok   / zoesfancycakes   Twitter   / zoesfancycakes   Instagram   / zoesfancycakes   Website http://www.zoesfancycakes.co.uk/