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Ice Cream Cone Cake
For my daughter's second birthday I chose an ice cream cone theme and made a two scoop cake for 2 years old. The cone part of the cake is rice krispie treats, the lower section is 4" circles and the upper section is 6". The scoops of ice cream are a combination of a bowl cake and a 6" round cake layer. All iced with buttercream. There is a PVC center support and a cake circle under the larger portion of the cone and each of the scoops.
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3D Dump Truck Cake
The bottom portion of the cake is 4 13x9 sheet cakes, layer with cookies and cream filling and topped with chocolate icing and Oreo and chocolate chip cookie crumbs. Orange cones are made from fondant and were allowed to dry. The dump truck is made of pound cake baked in two standard bread pans. The pound cake was then iced with buttercream and covered with pre-made rolled white fondant. The yellow-orange color was added with spray food coloring, this was my first time using fondant, if I was to do it again I would kneed the color into the fondant as the spray gets sticky. All details on the truck body are from fondant, the lines made in the fondant were done using the back of a butter knife. To fill the back of the truck I cut and peeled away the fondant and spread a thin layer of chocolate icing and then covered it with more Oreo and chocolate chip cookie crumbs. To keep the cookie crumbs from getting all over the cake I used strips of wax paper to cover the surrounding area. The tires are rice cereal treats pressed into muffin tins. I then iced them and covered them with pre-colored rolled fondant, then used a small dowel rod to create treads. The hubcaps and fenders are fondant applied last. I placed the fenders on the tires while they were lying on their side and allowed them to dry. The tires are attached to the lower cake with two toothpicks and a tooth pick was inserted through the tire and into side of the dump truck at the edge of the hubcap to hide the whole. The dump truck has a separate cardboard base under both the cab and the trailer and then an additional cardboard base runs under both the cab and the trailer to connect them. If I was to do this again I would have used something stronger to support the two pieces of the truck so then I would have only needed four supports underneath it which would have been hidden by the tires. The supports are plastic cut so that they stick up above the sheet cake half the height of the tires. The tires were attached once the dump truck was put in place on the supports.
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Whimsical Froggy Cake
I had never done any cake decorating before but wanted to make a frog cake for my son's first birthday. I had decided on a frog because of my love for lime green. I tried to find a frog cake pan but to no avail, so I decided I would have to carve one. I found a frog I loved on one of his outfits and drew a large two piece template free hand onto paper cut to the size of a 9x13 pan. I am so thrilled with the way that my first cake turned out I now can't wait to make the next one!