Tiger Cake

Okay, so I finally have a bit of time to put together a post for the tiger cake. This is probably one of the most challenging cakes I've made, hard competition to E's 'Go Dog Go' Cake from last year. So the head construction began with a Rice Krispies Treats sculpture, then I crushed some more to mold the nose and cheeks. I wish I'd made the snout wider after the fact. Then ice and cover in fondant, and onto making ears out of gum paste.

Afterwards, I worked on hand painting the stripes on the head and other details. Meanwhile my kids were home and kept asking, when are you going to make it orange, when are you going to do the orange?

So I did. I set up my "spray booth" in the butler's pantry, and tried to do the best I could to not get the orange everywhere, this was the second hardest part. Then every cake needs a body, so I made Ethan's out of yellow cake with raspberry preserves (his pick) and the rear out of chocolate cake with chocolate icing in the middle, covered in white frosting.

The legs were sculpted out of fondant and then the whole thing was covered in fondant (no easy task with only two hands!) Say hello Mr. Tiger Cake!

Here is the finished product. I had LOTS of trouble with the beard in general, and probably should have just left it off. All in all the birthday boy was pleased with his cake and that's all that really matters! Thanks for reading!

Tennis Cake

I realize I'm quite behind on maintaining this blog and my apologies to my small following! ;) I wanted to post up some pictures of the cake I made for my brother's 18th Birthday. He is a very smart and talented kid who is now in his first semester in college. He played tennis all through high school and was pretty good from what I hear....thus the tennis themed cake.

 
Just a few more angles to show a little detail of the top. I included a picture of him on the front as well. Hope you like!

Upcoming Tiger Cake

Here is a quick preview of the tiger cake!

As I was hand painting the stripes on this tiger, I became acutely aware of how intricate their stripes really are! I've still got some tweaking to do, but I will hopefully post the completed image soon!

Mustang GT 5.0 Cake

So here's the latest cake. This is a replica of my husband's beloved race car. It is a 1986 Mustang GT convertible. It has been through thick and thin, so this was definitely going to be my husband's 30th birthday cake. It was a vanilla pound cake on top, devil's food on bottom with a dulce de leche filling and chocolate icing. Fondat on top of course with fondant and gum paste accessories. Now getting the color right was actually the hardest part. Neither my compressor air gun set up nor the spray can of food safe spray would get it black. So I ended up doing some gel food color diluted in Vodka to hand paint the thing. I have to say, it finally turned out the color it was supposed to be. Hope you guys enjoy!

Here's a picture with the windshield on....I actually think it looked better without.

And here's the happy birthday boy.