Sonic the Hedgehog wedding cake

As promised, here is the Sonic the Hedgehog wedding cake I made for two very close friends of mine.

The bottom tier is chocolate sponge with chocolate buttercream and the top is plain sponge with vanilla buttercream.

The block the figures' feet are resting on is solid icing. It was more a structural element, but I think it actually brought the whole thing together. In my initial plan, the figures would be standing together on the top. I hoped that if I leant them in to each other lovingly, they would balance, but it was never going to happen as their legs are too spindly and their heads enormous!

I could lie and say I planned it all along, but I don't lie on here- cakes evolve and more often than not, they don't go according to plan, but the way they turn out is actually even better than the plan was!

The only none edible parts of this cake are internal supports- plastic dowels to hold up the cake board inside the cake, and a half a cocktail stick in each figure to hold their heads to their bodies. Yep, the rings are icing. Nothing but icing. They were made a couple of days before hand so they had a long time to dry, then only positioned on the cake on the morning of the wedding. By then they were solid as a rock. I made them by using two different sized circle cutters on some rolled out icing. I thought about dusting them with gold powder, but I thought in game the rings are yellow, so I'd follow suit!

I'm very proud of the figures. I spent a long time researching Sonic as I realised I didn't know as much as I wanted to know to get the detail correct. The pink hedgehog is Amy, who I discovered through my research, essentially stalks Sonic and is obsessed with him!! Oh well! My friends asked for Sonic and Amy, and I think it turned out romantic. I tried to put them in a pose where they looked quite soppy, and gave them wedding rings too. My friends are the sweetest couple ever, and I wanted to encapsulate their romance and how they are besotted with each other in tiny icing computer game characters! I tried to remove them from the cake in one piece when they cut it, but they came apart! They're still going to keep them and the rings in an airtight box as a memento. This is perfectly doable as long as they are kept airtight and out of sunlight, the icing should last. I have some pieces from my own wedding cake still!

I'm happy to answer any questions you have relating to cakes if you want to give these things a go.

Because my husband is awesome, he filmed a video going around the cake, for this blog, so you can appreciate it from all angles. I think it's a great idea of his so you can understand the size of the cake and see it from all sides with out lots of photos!