Recently I did Kaben's 4th birthday cake. I have mentioned Kaben here on the blog a few times before, since I have done all of his birthday cakes. He is such an amazing little boy, and he always gives us such great ideas for his party cake. This year's party theme involved a petting zoo, cowboy hats, cactus balloon sculptures - certainly enough for me to create a cake around. It all worked so well at The Car Barn!
Our cake starts out with the bottom cake tier as a wooden crate covered with modeling chocolate "wooden" panels. We also made his name using wood planks also made from modeling chocolate. We used a Wilton #3 tip to make mail holes in the planks.
The next tier was covered in blue fondant and made to look like denim blue jeans complete with little pockets and stitching. We also made a horseshoe inspired 4 made from gumpaste for rigidity.
The next tier was a bandanna in John Deere yellow and green. I gathered the fondant a little and finished the tier with a little fondant knot.
The next tier was inspired by the petting zoo. Just a green fondant "hill" with a rickety country fence. There were a few animals made from modeling chocolate poking their cute little head through.
Cars is still Kaben's favorite cartoon, so we incorporated one of the tractor "cows" into the cake as a topper. I used some pictures from the Internet to sculpt a tractor from modeling chocolate. Now Kaben also wanted his tractor to "moo" just like on the cartoon. He was too high on the cake for Kaben to reach, so we used a recordable sound module and incorporated it into a tractor tire on the cake board. Now my frequent readers here will know that this is totally Chad's area of expertise. He took the module into the office and about 2 minutes later he came back with with the sounds on it. I thought he had pulled up some sound database on the Internet to record it from. It wasn't until the next day that he told me he just mooed into it. I couldn't believe it, but it sounded great! I guess if this cake thing doesn't work out, he has a career as a cow impersonator! LOL!!
Thanks for stopping by and reading my little old blog. I know this was long, so here's a closeup of that tractor sculpture as a special bonus for sticking around!
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Tuesday, 13 November 2012
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