VW Bus Birthday Cake

It’s that time of year again the fantastic Mr Bus’ birthday. Now last year I decided to design and make him a digger cake, this year of course I had to equal that effort or go one better. I had a few ideas in the pipeline and decided to ask the Birthday boy what he would prefer. We went with a VW Bus cake.

Now I started with baking a lemon drizzle loaf cake, whilst this was cooling had the daunting thought this was not going to be high enough, so baked another lemon loaf cake, this time without the drizzle, so that I could square off the top to sit the other one on top of it. After these had cooled down, it was time to build, placing the loaf cakes one on top of the other with a layer of vanilla butter cream in the middle, I covered the cakes all over in butter cream.

I then set about with the icing. I thought it best to start with the white top and draped it over the cakes, just leaving enough for a slight overlap at the bottom.

Next was the colour base, and we had decided on blue, I almost thought I was going to run out of blue but rolled out the icing quite thinly in order to cover the bottom half. I did these in front, rear and side sections.

Next I added the windows with black icing along with a bumper in the white, followed by a small reg plate and some more for a roof rack. I used the white and the black icing rolled into different size balls and then flattened slightly for the wheels and the lights.

I used piped icing to do the VW logo, Reg plate detail and also for edging around the windows and windscreen wipers.