For my wonderful fiance's birthday I decided to create this equally awesome TARDIS cake. I used a simple vanilla cake recipe from best recipes (
http://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipe/Basic-Butter-Cake-L2239.html). I've made a couple of cakes using this recipe and while I can't eat it everyone tells me it's delicious. I used a loaf tin to create the rectangular shape because it was the closest thing I had to a TARDIS shaped tin. While I was waiting for the cake to bake, I rolled out some white fondant and cut 2 rectangular shapes the same size and one smaller squarish section. Using a toothpick and some black food colouring I created wavy lines on the square to represent the actual words. I did the same to create the lines on the rectangles for the police box's windows. I broke a small section off and coloured it black for the band at the top. Since its way to hard to write the white text on, I chose this section to put the candles in. Using the remaining fondant, I mixed blue food dye in. I tried to avoid mixing the colour in perfectly to create a marbled look that reminds me of the wood grain in the older versions of the TARDIS, I then repeated the toothpick technique to fill in the rest of the detail. Attaching the band and a blob of fondat for the light, my TARDIS is complete. I hope you enjoy my latest creation :).
P.S. It's blue inside, I can't resist food dye
TIP: Wear rubber gloves for each colour when colouring the fondant. It saves your hands from being stained for days.
