Abracadabra!

Let me tell you that this has been my FAVORITE cake I have worked on thus far! I had so much fun putting this cake together.

I started this cake with two tiers of chocolate cake and vanilla buttercream icing, which was the bottom portion of the black top hat. I covered this in black marshmallow fondant and created a red fondant ribbon for the base of the hat. The brim of the hat is a 10" cake board covered in black fondant.

Once I had the hat assembled, I created colored hankerchieves out of fondant and gumpaste. I laid these on the hat and arranged to make it look like they were coming out of the center of the hat. Once I had these in place, I started working n the rabbit.

The rabbit's head is made of rice krispy treats (RKT) and I placed a dowel out the bottom of it to insert into the cakeboard and cake. I covered the RKT with white gumpaste. The ears were created separately with white gumpaste, a bamboo skewer and then pink fondant in the center of the ears. Once these hardened, I inserted the bamboo skewers into the rabbits head. I added the facial features with fondant and gumpaste. The paws are just pieces of gumpaste that I formed into ovals and then created creases in them, to look like little toes.

The other pieces I created were a magic wand and some playing cards. The wand was crafted from a dowel rod covered in black marshmallow fondant and then added some white gumpaste to both ends. The playing cards are created from gumpaste and I hand painted the hearts and such on them with food coloring.

I absolutely LOVE how this cake turned out! The customer who ordered it could not pick it up today, so she sent a friend instead. I cannot wait to get an online review back from the customer to see what she and her sone, Slate thought of their extra special cake design. I will keep you posted on their comments.

Thanks for following along and reading about my magical cake design.

Happy baking to all!

It's A Jungle Out There!

I received a request for a birthday cake for a little boy who LOVES Disney Jr.'s Jungle Junction. I created a sheet cake with a nice dirt pathway for the various critters on wheels to travel across. We also made some nice, lush green grass for them to play on.

The critters on wheels included bugs (the brightly-colored balls with antennae on wheels), Ellyvan the elephant and Zooter the pig. Ellyvan was made out of rice crispy treat and then covered in gumpaste. Zooter was made completely out of fondant, as were all of the bugs. For all of the wheels, I took some small cars I purchased at the dollar Store and ripped them to pieces so we could use the wheels on these fun characters. The Jungle Junction signs were made of fondant and then used buttercream to decorate them.

This was a really fun cake to work on and I learned about more Disney characters that I had never heard of before this order. If i keep up the work on these specialty character cakes, I will be ready if and when the good Lord blesses me and my husband with children!