Legend of Zelda Cake
23 Apr 2012 2 Comments
in awesome, badass, birthdays, brown, cake, dude cakes, friends, gaming, manly, video games Tags: baking, birthday, Blog, cake, chocolate, deocorating, diy, fondant, food, friends, link, zelda, zelda cake
Some times I get to make super fun cakes! I jump at the chance to do any cool nerdy/geeky cakes. They’re always my favorite. When I was asked to make a Zelda cake with a little Link figure, I was stoked.
I’m going to call this cake the hella chocolate cake. Because it’s PACKED full of chocolate. I made dark chocolate cake full of chocolate chips, then I filled the layer between the two cakes with more chocolate chips and thick, rich chocolate buttercream. Next, I iced the whole cake in homemade chocolate buttercream and then covered it in home made chocolate fondant. I might be calling it hella chocolate, but this thing smelled like heaven. Let’s be honest. I wanted to take a bite.
Are you ready for some football… cake?
16 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in brown, cake, chocolate, dude cakes, fondant, kids, manly, party, stars, two tier Tags: baking, cake, cleveland browns cake, cute, deocorating, diy, fondant, football cake, fun, kids, sports
Okay, so most of you know I don’t know much about sports. I usually have to do more googling when something involves sports, vehicles or gaming. Thankfully, I know what a football looks like… I might not be able to tell you how football is played or basically anything else about it, but I can properly identify a football in a line up. So that was a good start.
Lori found me online, which is awesome. Since this is a side hobby for me, I just sort of rely on word of mouth and friends to spread the word about my cakes. So when google did me a solid and brought my page up for Lori, the stars sort of aligned for us and we started emailing back and forth about this cake.
She pretty much gave me free artistic reign on this one, which was awesome of her because I got to figure out what I was going to do. I did a few sketches and set to work. I baked two 8″ rounds for the bottom tier and then two 6″ rounds and a 4″ round for the top tier. I stacked the 6″s and and the 4″ and started carving. All I knew was that I needed it to look like a football!
When it came time to cover the football, I tried cutting triangular strips of fondant to lay on the shape one at a time. It soon became evident this wasn’t the key here… I had to strip the cake down and try something else haha. The pieces needed to be triangular at the top, but flare out in a rounded way in the center and bottom. Once I figured that out, I was golden. I added the stars because, after all, this was for a 6 year old. I didn’t want it to be too serious!
Lori said Lucas loved the cake! And I love this candle arrangement! Happy Birthday Lucas!
Don’t forget my own birthday is coming up next week! And I have a very fun Futurama theme planned! Just you wait!!
Also, here’s a shameless self promotion for you to check out my personal blog for a very dear to my heart story about my husband!
He’s lost 125lbs in the past 365 days!
Story here! This post is full of photos, tips, food suggestions and more!
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Transformers Cake… take… what now? Three?
19 Dec 2011 1 Comment
in awesome, badass, birthdays, black, dude cakes, friends, manly, movies, red, transformers Tags: baking, birthday, Blog, cake, deocorating, fondant, food, friends, transformers
I believe this is the 3rd Transformers cake I’ve made. Possibly the 4th. I forget. It’s for sure, one of the coolest.
I decided I wanted to make “metal” panels for the sides of this cake. I cut the panels from grey fondant and then added “screws” to the corners by cutting little circles and scoring them.
I lined the cake with the panels and then painted them with edible silver shimmer. A few “rusty” accents and I was loving how it was shaping up.
Finally, I decided to add some “patches” here and there for a more worn look. I was really happy with the results!
Funny enough, when I went to cut out the logo, I planned to print it out, lay it over my fondant and cut from there. Well, my printer had other plans and refused to print! I was furious, but I calmed myself down and cut the design out free hand, using a photo on my phone as reference. Not bad if I do say so myself.
I love this cake!
Also, wish me luck… I’m fighting the mobs to go Christmas shopping today lol.
