Sorry everyone, I forgot to take in progress photos this time!
This cake was made from three 9x12 cakes. The boys are really into blueberry banana oatmeal and one day they said they wanted a blueberry banana cake. I started searching for recipes and finally found one I thought would work. So one cake was blueberry banana, one white cake and one cherry chip cake. Brian cut a piece of plywood (fire truck shape) and we mounted two smaller pieces of wood (where the tires would be). I then cut the cakes to the same size as the plywood. I had some scrap pieces left over and I used those to stack up and create the cab of the fire truck. I never make my own frosting because it seems to take long enough just with the decorating so the frosting is Hyvee cream cheese frosting. It took 4 containers to do this cake.
The wheels are chocolate donuts with black icing on them. The lights in the front of the truck are like Mike and Ike's. The lights on top of the cab are Dots. And the hoses on the side are black licorice.
Originally I had red frosting already mixed up the night before (so the color could deepen), but the closer we got to the IA/ISU game, I just couldn't bring myself to create a fire truck for two hawkeye boys out of cyclone colors. Call me psycho, but I just couldn't do it. So all of the red frosting went in the trash and some Hawkeye Black and Gold were created! It took about 4 hours to put together and decorate.
The boys loved the truck and had a fabulous birthday party!
I already had started frosting it before we got the photo taken, but you can kind of see the end result of the cake shapes. The white part is the base of the house.
Somehow miraculously, it ends up resembling a fairy house, accomplished by filling in lots of voids with frosting.
I used the star decorating tip to make the circles on the roof and a ribbon tip to decorate the doors and windows. I also used a bigger ribbon tip to make the 'grass'. Boy was my hand tired after piping the frosting onto the entire plate!
The sidewalk was candy discs and as usual I always end up adding more frosting, I couldn't resist adding the little white flowers to the grass. Additionally on sat morning (didn't take any more photos), I added little yellow dots to the center of these flowers and the ones on the roof.
The fairies are made out of fondant with a gold ribbon tied around their waist to make the wings. I know they kinda look like mermaids, but they really are supposed to be fairies!
Taylor loved it and I was happy with the final product. Usually am, it's just the process to get there never seems easy! Next up is a baby shower cake this month or next!
