Corgi Cake

It didn't take long after Memorial Day weekend for me to find another good excuse to make a cake for someone. My boyfriends sister was nice enough to watch our dog for us while we were at my parents cabin for Memorial Day, so as part of our thank-you to her, I thought I should make her a cake.

I wanted the theme of the cake to appeal to her, so I figured I should make her either a cake with a corgi, because she loves corgis, or a Gus cake, because Gus is her kitty, who she named after the mouse on Cinderella. Love it! :)

In the end I decided to go with the corgi, because it seemed fitting given that I was making her the cake for watching our dog.

I of course started by searching on Pinterest for dog cakes and corgi cakes. I found one corgi cake in particular that I thought was pretty cute, and resembled an actual corgi quite well. So I ended up using that picture, and tracing the dog onto parchment paper.

Then, after I rolled out the fondant, I put the piece of parchment paper on top, and used one of my fondant tools (see picture below) to trace the outline of the dog, pressing just hard enough to make an indented outline in the fondant. I used the outline to then actually cut out the whole piece.

I did this with the main body, the front legs, and the white patch of fur along the forehead/nose. I cut out the inner ear and tongue pieces by hand. Then I just used chocolate frosting for the nose and the eyes. The first time I did that was simply because I was only practicing and I mainly wanted to see if my idea would work, and I was more concerned about making the main parts of the body versus the nose and ears. But when I practiced it the second time I make those pieces out of fondant as well, and it turned out that I actually preferred the look of the nose and ears as frosting instead.

I also did not have the time to make brown fondant the first time I practiced the corgi. But like I said I was more concerned about making sure this whole tracing concept would work. However, I did still want to see how the different body parts lined up, thus I did not want to have every piece be white. So I figured the easiest thing to do would be to use some of the Wilton Color Mist ;)



Blue fondant corgi

I was happily surprised at how cute it still looked, even in blue.

I ended up making the final corgi (for the actual cake) a day in advance, which you can do as long as you keep it in a tightly sealed container and store it in a dark place. This made it a lot easier to get everything else done the next day.

For the main color of the cake I opted to go with teal, and then purple for the border. I had never done those colors together before but I really liked the way it turned out.

Finished corgi cake

I figured that little brown dog bones and paw prints scattered around the corgi would be a nice complement.

Hopefully my next puppy themed cake (whenever that may be) turns out this well!