How Do I Make A Hummer Cake?
Decorating By janetwhitson Updated 31 Aug 2007 , 2:03am by southerncake
My son wants a hummer cake for his birthday. Any suggestions on how to do this?
I have not made one myself, but by looking at the vehicle should not be too hard since it is boxy. My suggestion start with square or rectangle shape cakes depending on the size you want it to be and stack and cut to shape. I would use fondant and/or gumpaste for details such as headlamps, guard rails etc. Good luck! post a pic would love to see that cake
Ok this is going to be a fun cake to make, and given the Hummers boxy shape it shouldnt be too hard to pull off.
Ok where to start. Bake a sheet cake 11x15. Cut in half tort fill and stack and now you have a rectangular shaped box (ish). Now take a round shapecookie cutter, drinking glass what ever. Put this where the tires would be and cut a ½ round. Then you want to carve out where the windshield would be. So put your knife about as far back as you think the hood should be then cut down at a slight angle, angle out towards the front end of the car. Slightly round the edges on the roof. Again the Hummer is very boxy so that should be all the carving youll need to do. Crumb coat then cover that puppy in fondant, use white. Grab an exacto knife and lightly score the lines where the doors would be, the hood the windows all that good stuff. Then mix some food gel with some vodka and paint the whole thing except the windows the color you want, if doing blue make sure you do dark blue. When you paint the food coloring will seep into your score lines making the seams where the doors are look more realistic. Make a lighter blue color to paint the windows, or if you want to get really snazzy do the windows in a darkish brown to look tinted. The all your head lights, bumpers, grills, door handles, antenna, and license plate do in fondant and attach after the fact. The tires, Id do out of rice crispy treats, rounded to look like tires, center pushed in cover in black fondant, then in a silver gray fondant (might have to paint with luster dust to get the right silver) roll 5 small fondant cords to place around the tire to look like the ridges of the rims, then cover the whole thing with a fondant round, paint as necessary. And if you wanna get super fancy you could put those bars on the roof with those fog lights that they have.
For the cake board that your extra cake and wad in up in lumps and place randomly on the board, leaving enough room to place the cake. Toss a sheet of brown fondant on top to resemble a rocky, muddy 4x4 trail. Then get some chocolate rocks to accent.
Viola!! A cake thatll make your Son proud.
I hope this helps and make sure you post pics after.
opps I forgot to tell you to carve out under neath the car. Don't carve out the whole thing but carve the sides underneath back far enough that you'd have to really bend down to look to see the cake is still touching the board
My son wants a hummer cake for his birthday. Any suggestions on how to do this?
You have several car cakes in you gallery so basically it's the same method. Carve your cake so it's boxy and angular like the Hummer and decorate accordingly.
It would basically be the same as the Jeep Wrangler cake in my photos (that is a cake I do a lot), but longer with the more boxy shape! Just let me know if you would like the directions.
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