Dear all,
Today I made a birthday cake for a little boy who will turn 6 years old. I don't know the boy, so I made the cake based on information given to me by his aunt. I'm quite pleased how this cake turned out! It's been a while since I've done such an elaborate cake, it was really fun! I really hope the kid likes it too XD So with no further ado, here is the Disney Cars inspired cake:
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The shape of the cake, as you can see, is a number 6. Now you can't just bake a 6 (well I don't have the baking tin for that anyway) so I made it out of two cakes. A round one and a square one. I cut the top part out of the square cake. As you can see I had oven trouble (again) but I did cut that slightly darker part off anyway. All part of evening out the cakes so worked out perfectly. After cutting the cakes to the same height etc. I stuck together and covered the cakes with dark chocolate ganache which I had made 2 days before. The cakes were made 1 day before decorating (yesterday for me).
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I had never used ganache before because I never got my act together (has to be made 24 hours in advance, at least). But I LOVED using it. It is so much easier, and nicer, than butter cream icing. I warmed it up in the microwave slightly to soften, and as I was spreading it onto the cakes it started solidifying again. Perfect. Because by the time I had covered the whole cake it was solid enough to start evening out. Smoothing out the ganache makes for a smoother finish with the fondant icing.
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And here we have the fondant icing! I started with just white icing. I'm getting better at this fondant icing bit as well, less holes/mishaps! To create the 'Finish Flag' effect I used squares of black icing. Gosh that took forever! (the squares are apprx. 1x1cm). With the same black icing I made a road on top with a roundabout idea.
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And here are some pictures of the finished product! Including Lightening McQueen from Cars himself! He passed the finish line and went straight for the winners podium. Well done McQueen!
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Happy Birthday Sheayan! I hope you have an amazing 6th birthday!! (and that you enjoy my cake, haha).
xoxo Jennifer