I recently did a Team Umi-Zoomi birthday cake for someone's daughter.
This was an interesting cake for me because I had never really worked with fondant before, so this was a first (well besides my ACF cake) but this was FOR someone who was PAYING me.
I made marshmallow fondant because of the taste and because it is way easier to make than regular fondant!
I started with making the characters, Milli, Bot, and Geo. They ended up coming out pretty accurately. And I realized that the green guy (without eyes and a mouth) could be made into a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, which I thought was awesome for future reference.
Once I had my little people made, I continued on with decorating the cake:
For this, I added a ruler across the bottom of the cake, as a border, and I added shapes to the sides to give the cake some texture and visual interest (and because Umi-Zoomi is all about shapes).
The shapes and the ruler came out WAY better than I could have imagined. I was beyond excited with how they turned out. So then, I moved on to the top of the cake:
I added Milli, Bot, and Geo to the top of the cake and then had to write Happy Birthday Sophia on it..like so:
I was definitely quite proud of how this cake turned out. It was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed being able to make a cake that made a little girl's birthday that much more special!
-B
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