Racing Themed Kids Birthday Cake

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The cake shown is meant to be themed after Cars, the animated kids film.  The customer was to put a Lightning Mcqueen toy on top to finish the look.

This cake is made up of a 14" round and an 8" round stacked.  The racing stripe pattern was made by cutting out a white square, then decorated with small black squares.  The little black circles along the bottom of the 8" cake are mini wheels.

Lightning McQueen Cake!

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After making this cake, I've officially stepped down from sculpting!  Haha, just kidding. It was a pain in the butt though!

I've never really made a sculpted cake before this Lightning McQueen one.  It took my a little while to get his shape to the point where I felt he was recognizable.  After all was said and done, I thought the shape came out great, but his color is a little off.  I think it's a little too dark.  All and all, it's not a complete disaster!

Super Mario Themed Cake

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I had a lot of fun with this cake.  I was told to make a Super Mario themed cake and to just go crazy with it, and this is what I came up with.

Mario is made of edible paper, as well as the 'Happy Birthday Matteo' sign.  Along the sides I cut out hills with different shades of green gumpaste.  I then made blocks in brown and yellow and placed them randomly along the top to look like a Mario level.  I also made the flowers that are in the game.  I threw in some clouds, stars and mushrooms and wahla!  A Super Mario cake!

Spongebob Cake

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Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?  Spongebob Squarepants!  Made this cake for a friend, of a friend.  When I was first told I had to do a Spongebob cake I said to myself "Easy.. it'll take me an hour!"  Yeah, okay.  I forgot how detailed Spongebob really was.  Overall, including baking and cooling, it took me 5 hours to do.  I'm pretty happy with how he turned out.  And apparently he was a big hit at the party.  Woohoo.

Harley-Davidson Cake

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This cake was made for a man who really loves motorcycles and anything Harley-Davidson.  It's a simple 10" round which was decorated with gumpaste flames.  The topper is made of a 9" white gumpaste circle, an 8" orange gumpaste circle and the Harley-Davidson logo, which I hand cut.  The sign standing in the back is made up of gumpaste and stuck in the cake with dowels.  If I were a man, I'd love this cake!

Fangtasia Cake (True Blood)

Calling all True Blood fans! Calling all True Blood fans! So, as I'm sure most of YOU are, I'm a HUGE True Blood fan. My sister and I have a party practically every Sunday to celebrate. While planning our usual Sunday party, I decided that I wanted to make a cake in honor of our favorite show. My favorite character is Eric... siiggghhhh! Isn't he dreamy?... Okay, back to planet earth now! To show my love for Eric, I thought I would make a Fangtasia cake as well as a TruBlood bottle! Yaaah!

Cake Specifics:

• Was carved from a 18"x12" cake pan.
• Red velvet cake with cream cheese icing.
• Covered in black fondant.
• Decorated with hand cut Fangtasia sign.
• Bottle is made from rice cereal treats and covered in red fondant.
• All decorations on bottle are hand cut.

This cake turned out to be a little more time consuming than planned. The bottle gave me nothing but problems from the beginning. BUT! Now that I know where I went wrong, I can bang one out pretty quickly. All in all, this is one of my favorites, but I may be a little biased.