Cake Ideas - How to make a Michael Jackson themed cake.

This guide will help you make a great Michael Jackson cake for all occasions! Whether it be a birthday cake, anniversary cake, or simply a cake for anyone who loves Michael Jackson, this guide will give you ideas and tips to show off your cake-making skills!

• 2 cakes (I made a 24cm x 30cm and a 16cm x 16cm)
  
  
• Butter Icing (I used 250g unsalted butter, 500g icing sugar and a little milk)
• Jam
• 2.5kg White Regalice Icing (available at supermarkets or cake supplies shop)
• 2 x 250g or small packets of red and black sugarpaste (available at supermarkets or cake supplies shop)
• Edible silver paint or edible glitter
• Tube of red writing icing
• Small edible silver balls
• A Michael Jackson (mine was from ebay)
• Cupcake toppers (again from ebay)
• Some red stars (bought or made)
• Candles
• Cake board
• Several images from the internet (for making sugarpaste decorations)

• Firstly I baked 2 Madeira cakes using this recipe http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/madeiracake_73878
  
  
• I used the standard recipe for the small cake and multiplied the recipe by 3 for the large cake.
  
  
• When the cakes were cold I sliced the dome off each of them using a large knife and was left with 2 flat topped cakes.
• I then sliced each one in half and filled with butter icing and jam.
• I gave each cake a crumb coat (thin covering of butter icing) and left to harden.
• About 2 hours later I covered them in clingfilm and left overnight.

• The next morning I found some pictures on the internet and printed them off, to use as templates for my sugarpaste decorations.
• I rolled out ready made regalice icing to about the thickness of a £1 coin.
• After the cakes were covered I put one on top of the other.

Below is a really helpful link on the technique to cover a square cake with the icing:

• Then I made all the sugarpaste decorations.
• A good tip is to do this on baking or grease-proof paper so you can get them off easily!