Minecraft Skin Cake

Again, I'm awfully sorry for not posting in ages. I was away for a month in Uganda though so that helps my case. So, cake time. It was my boyfriends birthday last week and I kept thinking what to do for his cake. This will be his third, and it'll have to be one of my best so far. My first idea (that someone helped me with) was to do a sombrero and a moustache but I couldnt think of a great way to execute the hat so I thought again. And it came to me, Minecraft! but what, i'd already done a Minecraft cake before so it had to be unique. hmm.. how about, his very own skin in cake form. Perfect. 
So here is the making of his Minecraft character; cake form :D

I made a vanilla sponge in a rectangular tin, and made sure to add loads of batter this time. Cooked till it was done, then took it out to cool.

Once cooled, I cut it in half so that I could add an apricot and buttercream filling.

I took my printed out correct sized template of his skin and pinned it to the cake so that I could cut out the right shape. 

With the shape sorted I coated it in more apricot jam and covered it in white fondant. Which I managed to cover first time, this time. Yay me :D

Now I faced a dilemma; cover with coloured squares of fondant to get the pixels, or paint with food colouring. I decided to paint, so paint I did. However, I forgot that the icing had made the man bigger that his twin template, so when I started using the template to get the painting lined up they were a tad small, but I managed to overcome this lack of common sense to make it look similar.

And there you have it, the finished cake! It was very tasty and he enjoyed it very much.

I promise this time ill post quicker,
Till next time,
Somnium xx