Breast Cake

In honour of our daughters first birthdays one of my friends and I decided to decorate the birthday cakes to look like a pair of breasts. This is very fitting given our girls have spent much of the first year suckling at our breasts.

The cake itself is your average butter cake (in fact we used a packet mix for our test run). To make it look like a breast all we needed was:

• Icing sugar
• Warm water
• 1 raspberry lolly
• A round ended knife (or something similar)
• Pink food dye
• Yellow food dye
• Piping bag and nozzle

We used a home brand butter cake mix to make the actual cake. Then icing sugar and water to get the right consistency for the icing.

To create a satisfactory colour scheme we used just a couple of drops of pink food dye mixed in with the icing sugar and water. Once it was mixed in we realised it looked like the colour of a cartoon character's breast rather than a human breast. We added one drop of yellow food dye to create a realistic flesh tone. We left the icing to set before adding the nipple and arela.

To make the decorative nipple appear more realistic we placed a raspberry lolly on top of the iced cake.

We created a separate batch of icing to ice the nipple and areola of our breast cake. We made this icing thicker than the first batch.

For the nipple and areola colour we used more pink food dye to make it darker than the rest of the breast. This time we added two drops of yellow food dye.

Once this icing was made we put it into a piping bag and carefully squeezed it out on top of the rasperry lolly. Then we iced a circle around the lolly to create an areola.

Finally we used a round ended knife that had been dipped in warm water to gently smooth out any lumps or bumps in the icing.

To give the cakes a more fleshy colour add more yellow food dye and flour to lighten. To make the tones darker add cocoa: