Broden is a guy who loves cars. Lately he has really started to appreciate spare tires.
I know, I don't get it either.
For Broden's birthday, his parents thought it would be funny to give him a spare tire cake.
Oh. Broden is 2. :)
From his car seat, he points at every jeep and SUV with a spare tire hanging on the back. He thinks it's the funniest thing in the world, so it was only natural to make this cake for him.
I was a little worried about turning my standard cake into chocolate - I've had bad luck in the past, and didn't want to deal with a failure today. A little hunting, and I found essentially my exact recipe already made with cocoa! As an added bonus, this recipe had a few different tricks to it, that I am going to apply to my vanilla recipe to make it ever better! Mwa ha ha.
Sorry... I got a little excited there.
I have to start remembering to take 'making of photos' to add in here - I was just so covered in cocoa that holding my camera didn't seem like a good idea.
After a crumb coat and some resting in the fridge, here's the start!
I'm so glad I picked up the pre-coloured fondant. I would have had to use a whole bottle of colour to get it this true of a colour. Worth the two extra dollars! The treads took a little fiddling with, and I decided that a half missing design would look the best.
I was looking forward to designing the hubcap. I made a decent gray, then used my silver luster dust to get some chrome on there... if only I could have made it spin... another time.
I was jumping back and forth as to when to move it on. Wait till it dried so I didn't smudge the paint, but risk it having hardened and maybe crack it, or do it right away and risk it tearing from being soft and losing its shape. I decided to move it right away as I was very happy with the look and didn't want to have to make it a second time.
The finished product. I'm very happy with it, and would only make one or two changes the next time. I can see this being fun for a real car fan and adding more details behind the hubcap - brake pads, better treads, inflation valve...
I'm so glad I picked up the pre-coloured fondant. I would have had to use a whole bottle of colour to get it this true of a colour. Worth the two extra dollars! The treads took a little fiddling with, and I decided that a half missing design would look the best.
I was looking forward to designing the hubcap. I made a decent gray, then used my silver luster dust to get some chrome on there... if only I could have made it spin... another time.
I was jumping back and forth as to when to move it on. Wait till it dried so I didn't smudge the paint, but risk it having hardened and maybe crack it, or do it right away and risk it tearing from being soft and losing its shape. I decided to move it right away as I was very happy with the look and didn't want to have to make it a second time.
The finished product. I'm very happy with it, and would only make one or two changes the next time. I can see this being fun for a real car fan and adding more details behind the hubcap - brake pads, better treads, inflation valve...
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| Finished Spare Tire Cake |
