So this year Caleb told me he wanted a chocolate cake with chocolate icing. A few days later he also said he wanted it to be either a Toy Story or Sonic cake. Couldn't find anything in the stores for either. I looked up ideas online and after seeing how many colors I would need for "Woody" I decided he would be getting a "Sonic the Hedgehog" cake. I found one that used a round pan as the main head and cut up the 2nd as his spikes. But with Mike's strong input I decided to go with a sheet cake. His mom usually makes the cakes for the boys. At least she gave us some pointers last time... I think I should have listened better because it took me all day to make this cake, and I even baked it yesterday. My mother in law puts paper towel on her icing after it sets for a while to make this nice pattern on it. I waited for 15 minutes (which I thought was the right amount of time) but when I went to pull up the paper towel, the icing came with it. I decided to not try it after I re-iced it. Then I turned over my sonic image and followed the lines with piping gel but when I flipped it to transfer the gel..the icing stuck to the paper and all came up again! Third try, Mike suggested I put it in the fridge. I did for over an hour as I put Abe to sleep. But I still decided to try something new, free-handing was going through my mind, but I decided to cut the image in sections and pipe around the edges instead..it worked! Next I had to mix icing and color it. Caleb liked it. That's what mattered :) We went ahead and had a party for him tonight up at the farm house since tomorrow night he will have cupcakes with his AWANA class (I made 24 of them today as well).
4 comments:
looks great
so much better than anything I have ever made
You did AWESOME!!!!!! Creative adapt and overcome philosophy! :) Aaron and Megan's birthdays are coming up in March, but I like to plan early! Aaron told me he wanted a Mickey Mouse party on the beach! HA! We'll see what happens! Great job though!
Reminds me a little of the time I made the dump truck cake for Noah's first birthday, though you endured more drama I must say! I was originally going to make the dump truck red, but after almost an entire bottle of red food coloring and the icing was still pink, I decided he'd get a yellow and blue dumptruck instead. :)
looks good!
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