Summertime Birthday

Summertime Birthday on Cake Central

Yellow cake baked in a 13" x 9" pan;I made a template for the flip flops by using a new, un-used pair of flip flops. I outlined the flip flops onto a cake cardboard and cut them out. With gumpaste, I cut and shaped the straps copying the real flip flop straps. I left them to dry on the real straps with a narow strip of amuminum wraped around them to hold them in place. I made these the night before so they would have plenty of time to dry. I made the gerbera daisies and the sunglasses also out of gumpaste the night before . I made the seashells out of a fondant/gumpaste mixture, then airbrushed them and handpainted some details with paste color mixed with lemon extract. Using the templates, I cut out the flip flop cakes; iced with buttercream crumbcoat, and chilled. I took the left-over cake pieces and mashed them onto foiled cake board and formed a slight up-hill shape, tapering down in the front. I iced this with a crumcoat and chilled. While the cakes were chilling, I ran vanilla wafers through the food processor until very fine, like sand. I iced all cakes with final buttercream; on the base cake I pressed a good layer of vanilla wafers until it looked like a sandy beach. On the flip flop cakes, I covered with marbeled , white chocolate fondant. I placed 2 plastic dowels into the base cake, then put the flip flops on it, side by side. I sharpened 2 wooden dowels and pounded them through all layers at the point where the toe straps enter the flip flops, I piped a thin zig-zag around the bottom of the flip flops; made slits in the fondant where the straps enter the flip flops; "glued" the daisies to the toe area of the flip flops with buttercream; Added the sunglasses and seashells and starfish.

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