So here it is, my very first blog post, ever. In case you're wondering, the whole thing goes like this, "Rabbit holes and ant hill joys, the dearest angels are little boys." - Skeen It's from a picture hanging in my kitchen that a dear friend gave to me. I have three little boys - she used to have three little boys, but now she has three big boys, big enough to be buying their own houses! Anyway, on to the cakes.
I recently made two cakes (yesterday and Thursday actually), they were my third and fourth attempts at making 3D cakes. I'm actually going to tell you about my first one first though.
It was almost a year ago, for my middle son (A)'s 3rd birthday. He wanted Lightning McQueen and I had been watching Ace of Cakes and thought, "Hey, I can totally do that!" So I searched for a fondant recipe (I used http://thecookduke.com/fondant-recipe/), bought some cake mix, bought some buttercream from the Bulk Barn (which is also where I found the glycerin for the fondant) and got to work.
Okay, so this is the mix I used to make the cake.
This is what it looked like when it came out of the oven.
I wrapped my cutting board in foil as the base.
A bit of icing on the board so the cake stays put.
First piece on the board, ta da!
This is how I stacked the cake.
Okay, carving's done (except the wheels). In case you're wondering, in the background are decals and eyes I made earlier that broke and I didn't end up using.
Cutting out holes where the wheels will go.
Here is my crappy job with the buttercream - turns out it's better to ice a frozen cake - silly me for letting it thaw first!
White fondant all rolled out and ready to go.
First fondant on the cake.
After I cut out the wheel holes.
The wicked awesome eyelids I made from fondant.
Fantastic eyelids now on the car ;)
Covered in THICK red fondant. I didn't like the thickness, but any thinner and it kept breaking - I think maybe I added too much icing sugar...
After I cut everything out, I didn't want to hide those awesome eyelids I made earlier ;)
Here is the logo for the side (I made one for the other side too, but I thought one picture was enough).
Here is logo attached, but it would have been better to cut out the wheel part after I placed it on the car instead of guessing while it was still on the table. Oh well, next time right?
Here's the orangey circle for the Rusteze logo.
I mixed gel food colouring with vodka to paint (the alcohol evapourates before the kids get the cake, don't worry).
This is what it looked like after I painted it. I also piped some yellow (that I just bought).
I used the same cookie cutter that I used to make the wheel holes in the cake top cut out the wheels from the (sort of) black fondant.
This is how the wheels ended up.
I let the wheels dry overnight so that they would hold their shape better.
This is how I ended up making the spoiler, then draped the fondant over top.
Spoiler's done. If I make this cake again, I'll make it ahead of time out of fondant and just let it dry, that way everything will be edible.
For the eyes, I made light blue fondant and then mixed in some dark blue colouring, but didn't mix it all the way in.
Almost done...
I painted the black with gel colour mixed with vodka.
I made a road by putting some buttercream down and shoving chocolate cookie crumbs on top, then piping some yellow on it.
I decided to make a white cake too. I covered it with white fondant and painted it with a new and clean paintbrush with plain green food colouring.
I actually made tiny cars from the cake and covered them in fondant.
This is what the white cake ended up looking like.
