New Mehndi cake designs
I have always enjoyed making mehndi cakes, the designs, patterns and colours are stunning.
Over the last few weeks I have been working on some new designs and here is the first of them. This is a dhol drum, a traditional instrument, popular at mehndis and weddings. I have made a few of these now and each one is more elaborate than the last.
To make this cake I baked a series of 9 inch and 8 inch round cakes, filled them, as usual, with buttercream and sliced a small piece off the side of each. Using buttercream to anchor one of the 9 inch cakes to the board I stood it up on the side I sliced the piece of cake from and covered it with more buttercream and repeated this with the 9 inch cakes and then the 8 inch cakes on either side. Once the the cakes were all sandwiched together I carved the top and sides to get a smooth finish and then covered the whole thing with more buttercream.
When the buttercream had hardened a little I covered the cake with orange icing and then decorated it with the gold, red and yellow as seen in the picture.
This cake will provide about 200 portions.
To see some of my other dhol drums take a look at the mehndi cake gallery.
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