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This is an Avengers cake I made for my 4 yr old son. A Bubble Guppies cake sat right next to it (that one was for my 2 yr old son, their birthdays are a couple weeks apart). The characters are all fondant with wooden dowell rods inside. The rocky hillside behind them is the actual cake. The Incredible Hulk is attempting to smash a helpless little fish that wandered onto the wrong cake :D Hope everyone enjoys these cakes!! :D
Created this Bubble Guppies cake (which is 100% edibe aside from a thin lollipop sized dowel rod supporting each Bubble Guppies head) for my son's 2nd birthday party. He adored it!! :D
This was a birthday cake for my son's 3rd birthday. He is in love with John Deere tractors, and I promised him I was going to make him a John Deere tractor and combine harvesting as his cake. After some wonderful advice from some of you here on Cake Central, I was able to really nail the fondant draping this time (still a few bad spots) but overall this cake is the cleanest and smoothest cake I've ever done (so THANKS to all of you who gave me advice!!!). The inside cake layers are bright yellow and green, with bright yellow icing. It was served with bright yellow and green ice cream (I melted it and mixed in food coloring, then re-froze... saw that on foodnetwork!!:) The cornstalks are all fondant, with the actual corn cobs rolled in yellow round sprinkles. I used a black edible cake marker to add the "John Deere" name, as well as other details. The actual cake is 1000000% edible aside from the cake boards that the cake is sitting on, as we as the green foam holding the vehicles up. No dowell rods or anything in these cakes. The wheels are made of Rice Krispy Treats. Hope you like the cake everyone! Happy 3rd Birthday to my little guy!!!!!!! He loooved it!!!!!!
This is a cake I did for a friend's daughter. It is 99% edible, no support or dowel rods or anything (but just one long strand of thread that I used to create the string of fondant pearls). Cake was lime green and neon blue on the inside (the daughter's fave colors). The sand was made out of vanilla wafters, chocolate graham crackers, a tablespoon of instant coffee, and gold edible glitter. The castle tops were made out of Fiber One's Caramel Cereal, painted with water and then coated with the "sand" mixture. The icing was mocha flavored (the daughter was 13 and loves Starbucks lattes etc). The shells are fondant and painted first with a thin layer of water and then with icing dye, and then sprinkled with edible glitter. I painted the pearls with water to give them a more reailstic shine! Hope you like it!!! Ive only done a handful of cakes in my life (maybe 5 total??). I'm posting all of them that I have pics of on this website, and from here on out I will add to my photo gallery as I make them!!! Hopefully as time goes by I will get better:)) Haha:) Thanks for looking!!
This cake was made by me for my youngest son's first birthday!!! My boys LOVE tractors and Bob the Builder, along with just about anything with wheels. I've looked all over online for Bob the Builder cakes and I really wanted to make this one as close as I could to the real thing. I have zero professional cake training so this is all me. Since the original show is "clay-mation", it made it very easy to duplicate the clay character's look with fondant. I really love making fondant decorations for my cakes, so this cake was a lot of fun!!! I always love when people add a lot of description to how they created their cakes, so here goes! I created all the vehicles out of fondant (they are NOT plastic toys!!) Everything about this cake is edible aside from wooden dowel rods placed through the cake itself, three of the vehicles, and the chord coming down out of Lofty (the blue crane). Muck (the red dumptruck) is 100% edible. I'd like to say the others are as well, but due to structural issues and last minute cracking I did place thin dowel rods through parts of them. I began working on the vehicles and other decorations about a week before the party. My favorite tool in the world for creating fondant characters or decorations is an old fashioned exacto knife and small/thin extendable box cutter!!! I basically started with a ball of colored fondant and carved away to create the machines. Then I added little details like the steps and wheels and faces. I used an edible icing marker to make the black dots for the machines eyes, and I also used that marker to make the stripes on Pilchard the cat and Bob and Wendy's faces. The actual cake (the house) gave me some trouble. This is only the second cake I have ever draped in fondant and I find that process very difficult and frustrating!!! I have definately not mastered that technique by any means. I refrigerated my cakes and then cut them to size and iced them while they were still cool. By the time I finished assembling the shape of the house, the cakes were still fairly cool but had warmed up to some degree. Then I placed the fondant over the cake.... The humidity and heat outside right now caused my cake to droop witin the hour, and through the fondant you can see every layer of my cake, so the outside of the house had a "rippled" effect instead of the smooth professional look I was hoping for. (The last cake I draped in fondant did the same thing!) I thought you weren't supposed to place fondant cakes in a fridge, but that seems like the only way I could avoid keeping my cake from warming up to room temp and sagging. (Any advice on how to get that perfectly smooth professional look would be so great!!!!). Oh and forgot to mention but the hill to the right of the house with the "1" candle on it was actually the Smash Cake for my little guy to go go crazy with, which he loved it! It was mashed to pieces within seconds:) I just cut it out and I had placed a cardboard circle beneath it for support so that is what sat in front of him with the candle lit when everyone sang happy birthday.. The cake was entirely edible except for four wooden dowel rods placed vertically to help my cake stand up. I hope everyone likes this cake!!! I have another birthday right around the corner (my other son turns 3 in the middle of September!!) so if you are into machines and tractor cakes then check back in late September and I will post pictures of my next project..... A Harvest Themed John Deere Combine and Tractor Combination harvesting crops in a field!!! I'm going to attempt to cover the machines in fondant again so wish me luck!!!!!!!! Thanks for looking everyone, have a great day:)
I made this tractor cake modeled after a similiar one I saw online for my son's 2 year old birthday. I added a jello pond complete with wavy fondant grass and fish beneath the surface. Cake is all edible, with even the tractor made of fondant. Cake is a malted milk ball cake recipe with malted milk ball icing. Hope everyone likes it, I had a blast making it!
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