07/12/2025
🪴🍄🟫Bag End🪨🌾
Now THAT is a specialty cake! What a fun job to do. I’m a sucker for LOTR (see previous Smaug cake…!).
The whole thing is comprised of 6 layers, all vanilla and strawberry. The bottom tier is 10” of vanilla, then the middle is 8” of strawberry. The top tier (the house) has 2 layers of both flavors, which were sculpted from 6” rounds.
I did involve some fondant here, as seen around the door, the k**b, the window, and the cobblestones (I marbled those myself)! Everything else, including the pumpkins, is Swiss buttercream.
The Hobbit house from the films and other works included in the screenshots helped to inspire the look of this cake. I could make this cake again and again! What a blast.