Hello lovely Food Tubers, so it's the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who and for all your
lovely Doctor Who fans out there I've got a real surprise for you.
I'm going to make a TARDIS cake!
And if you don't know what TARDIS stands for, it stands for Time and Relative Dimension
in Space.
Duh!
I've baked two 8 inch square chocolate sponges and then levelled the tops to make a flat
surface.
To make the TARDIS you only need five equal small squares of about 3 and a half inches.
Starting with one square put it in the middle of your cake board and fill it with white
vanilla butter cream.
If you want a great simple recipe for butter cream then click the link now.
I'm just going to use a palette knife, just a thin layer.
Make sure you spread it all to the edges and then just build your cake up like that.
Lining it up with itself, if it feels a little bit uneven don't worry about that now, you
just want to get it stacked up.
So we've got the top bit on.
There we go that's our finished structure.
We just need to give it a crumb coat before we give it a blue butter cream.
So then it's locked in all the crumbs with butter cream.
Just give it a really thin coating.
I'm using a cranked palette knife because it's a lot easier than a straight one.
Just going to finish the top off.
Now it's quite wobbly, because it's really tall.
Go slow and keep your eye on it.
So I've finished the crumb coat so I'm going to pop that in the fridge for about 20 minutes
or so and that's going to give it a nice base for my blue butter cream to go on.
It's going to be a lot easier to ice now because it's firmed up.
Now I've got my blue butter cream, so I'm just going to get it on my palette knife and
spread it quite thickly up the sides like a few millimetres, this is whole batch of
butter cream from another video of mine, check out the links to see it.
I've added ten grams of baby blue colour paste with a dash of purple to get the right colour.
I'm going to keep on going up with my palette knife to smooth it out as much as possible
because at the end of the day it is a phone box , they're pretty straight.
I'm just going to bring in these bits from the top.
Now we've got all the outside smooth, I just want to make one more level on the top because
it's got a few levels this guy.
So I'm going to fill a piping bag and I've got quite a fat nozzle on this guy and draw
a line slightly smaller than the square of the actual cake itself.
Like that.
And then fill it in, boop, boop, boop.
Then using your palette knife just very gently smooth it but be really gentle.
Okay!
So I'm just going to put him in the fridge so then he can firm up and be a little bit
safer to decorate.
So while he's in there fore twenty, minimum twenty minutes I'm going to make all the little
bits that go on him.
So I'll put him in the fridge now.
To decorate the TARDIS and give it a bit of detail we're going to, I need a few bits and
pieces that I'm going to make out of modelling paste, we're going to need some windows, the
pull to open sign, the police box sign some blue panels and then last of all the little
light thing that goes on top.
I'm using modelling paste which I've made myself by combining sugar paste and gum tragacanth
which you can get from good cake decorating shops and websites.
Sugar paste you can get at supermarkets as well.
I am going to do my windows and panels, 3 centimetres high and 2 and a half centimetres
wide.
Okay, so that's the panels you need to make 24 of those to paint all the details on.
We're going to use a food colouring powder.
So I've got white, I've also got dark blue and bit of black.
I'm going to start with the police box sign.
That's just white on black, of course.
I'm obliviously using the smallest paintbrush in the world, it's not particularly special.
I just got it form an art shop.
There it is, finished.
Just have to wait for it to dry then you can put him on the TARDIS cake.
Windows, use the blue and a little bit of black for this.
And one down the middle and split this into three.
Okay, so that's one window done.
You just need eight of those.
I've painted these panels as well just to make them a bit more realistic.
Now you just need to stick all your bits and pieces on and I'm going to use butter cream.
I've put it in a piping bag just with a small nozzle on there.
Not too much because you don't want it wiggling out the sides.
DAT DA DA DA!
So, there you have it.
A super, duper TARDIS cake for you and all your friends and family and cybermen and Daleks
to enjoy and s[peaking of Daleks, if you'd like to know how to make Dalek cupcakes, then
click the Dalek now.
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Cue sci fi outro!