Race Car Cake: 3rd Birthday
July 23, 2013
For the record and as a testament to my complete slackitude, I’m posting this a year and a half after the event.
Anyway, Jude was (and still is) very much into cars. Any cars. All the time. Did I mention the cars?
So of course I had to make a race car cake.
Jude wanted a strawberry cake, but I knew that some people wouldn’t want that, so half the cake is strawberry and half the cake was something else. (Did I mention that it has been a year and a half since I made this cake??)
The grey track is of fondant and the black squares on the side are fondant. For the black, I bought a black sheet of fondant at Michael’s because I knew that I would never be able to make a true black no matter how much coloring I used. I made the grey fondant by dying white fondant.
The flags are all printed on the computer and wrapped around bamboo skewers and the cars are some new matchbox cars for Jude.
To make the cake, I used two boxes of mix for each side and used the Wilton batter amounts to make a nice, tall cake. I then used the cake pan as a large cookie-cutter to cut a piece out of one side of one of the cakes to make the two circles fit together. That was the worst description ever, but I think you can get the gist.
I realized too late that I didn’t have a huge figure-eight cake board (go figure!) so I grabbed the only thing I had, a large cutting board. Not the most lovely base, but it worked fine.
This was a really fun cake to make
February 2011: Currently, Jude is about to be three in two weeks and I’m trying to figure out what to make for his cake. I’m considering either a race car cake, a construction trucks cake, or a volcano cake. (We are really into volcanoes this week!)
For Jude’s second birthday, I made a Train Cake.
Train cake: 2nd Birthday
Jude loves trains. LOOVES them. So there was really no option but to make a train cake for his birthday. I had to make a big cake because there was going to be about 22 people eating the cake. Unfortunately, we forgot to take pictures of the actual party.
The decorations and name are made of fondant and the clouds are made with royal icing.
For his first birthday, I made a farm-themed cake.
Farm Cake: 1st Birthday
Because he was turning one, I made a little “smash” cake for him and two cakes for everyone else. We have a lot of family to feed.
The Barn is made from graham crackers and the two trees are made from ice cream cones, the fence is made of royal frosting and all the animals are from his fisher-price farmhouse except for the royal icing chicks.
