Ezequiels B-day & Thomas Cake

This past weekend was Zickels B-day & so with that I thought it would be a good idea to have his party & Halloween on the same day,thinking it would be nice if all the kids could get ready together and all but um never again,lol!We were pretty much dead tired and for the first year I just thought uugghh lets just skip it this year,but of course you cant do that,so I wanted to share a couple pics with you of Zickels cake,he chose Thomas the tank engine this year,very cute,I was going to do a spiral cake but then decided differently.I made some mis calculations,the side of the cake turned out not to be big enought o set the train on,I measured it,the trains were 1in so I gave myself 1 1/2in but did not account for the buttercream & fondant bulk go figure!Anyways here it is.In the end I loved it & Zickel was so happy when he woke up that morning & seen it so thats all that matters.

It is 4 9in rounds for the bottom tier White cake with orange coloring & devils food with Italian meringue buttercream recipe from Cake Journal ,which was super easy & tasted great ;)

Melting MMF

Ok so I dont mean melting MMF in a good way,this was bad very bad,so I have these books from Debbie Brown ...... awesome cakes.That I thought I would try.... hehehe well heres my go at one,I failed miserably,so anyways using MMF that doesnt hold up to the heat at all.As I got it doneI noticed it was drooping ..... kinda melting its way south.So I didnt even bother finishing the cake up.I said ok before it goes any further lets get the party started,lol!

Now because Ezequiels b-day falls very close to Halloween,I get to cheat & mix up his cake a bit,anyways heres my kitty sitting in the pumpkin ......

The Kitty,Pumpkins & McQueen were made from straight gumpaste (which I no longer use)

you can see all the horrible cracks in it.The thing sitting beside the kitty was his witchs hat,haha again size issues.

See he enjoyed it ....... ha ha ha .......... we are bad about craming your face into a cake ;)

Lightning McQueen Gone Wrong

So my little boy LOVES Lightning McQueen so I thought omg I HAVE got to make him a cake in the shape of this character so I again searched the net and I had been reading & finding out about fondant so this is where my adventure really began,so I fread about marshmallow fondant & thought well that sounds cool,lets do that.So this ball of MMF sitting before you looks great & I was so happy for myself for making it ;)

And these are the cakes whoohoo turned out good also

so we started carving & that also wasnt to bad...... on a roll .......

first icing ... I know now the mistakes made,but remember I was a beginner

And heres the start to my downfall .......RED food coloring ..... Ugghh!! Regular food color.You can Im sure guess what I did & what it took to get this red when you dont know that red darkens with TIME!!!!

ok so the cakes covered ......... um this is suppose to be fondant ????

and a buttercream bottom ........ yeah I know my size issues are off,lol!

ok so hes looking a little better .... harder than I thought .....

And this is the end result,he ended up with no wheels,I dont even know how many hours later this was but after the aggrevation of the red fondant I was over it.

But all in all he loved it & knew who it was the minute his eyes went on so that made me happy.... first disaster over......Anyone else try this character before? I would really love to redeem myself,so I may just do another one after the weeding cake next week.

Ezequiels First B-day

Ok so I thought aawwww wouldnt it be cute if I made his cake .... so I searched the web & I decided on this cake.I thought it turned out nice only thing I didnt like was the Gel Writers it kinda melted in the heat not to mention it was on the side of the cake,lol!

But it tasted sooooo good.

P.S. its suppose to be a caterpillar