Speed racer 2008 cake
with me made out of fondant and then inserted later. You only need to smooth it out over the top of the cab because you will want to just cut the shape of the cab out in the center to just smooth down the fondant because the seats and dash, etc. Then use your hands to smooth it all down over the cake and round the parts of the car. Gently lay it, unrolling it from the pin as you go, over the cake. To layer it on the car I lightly and loosely roll the fondant around my fondant rolling pin to lift it up without it's own weight tearing it. I rolled it out a thickness of about 1/6 of an inch of a large piece of vinyl that I use for fondant that it doesn't stick to. Then I spread a thin layer of icing, without walnuts, ont he top of the footprint and flipped it over and placed it on the cake shape I had cut out then held the cookie sheet to the bottom and my hand on the top (bottom of the main cake board since it's upside down and flipped the whole thing then lifted the wax paper off the bottom (now top) of the cake.Īfter the carved car is covered in icing, roll out some fondant large enough to cover the car, about the size of the main cake board, so there will be enough to wrap under the car footprint board a little. I wipe the icing off the bottom of the pillars before glueing it down. i then removed it and cut out the foil in those sections where the icing was on the larger main board so that I could hot glue the pillar/outline support to the main board. Next I put a small dab of icing on the bottom of each pillar and positioned the piece, pillar bottoms down on my large foil covered cake board that would hold everything, so that the icing would leave a mark where the pillars touched down. I layed it on my stacked cakes and cut around it, a little bigger than the outline so that the edges of cardboard wouldn't show or jut out from the bottom of the car. Then I covered the outline/footprint in foil.īefore connecting the outline piece to the main cake board I used the outline on the cake as a template of where to cut my basic shape. I then glued 4 pieces together to form 1 pillar and then glued those 5 pillars to the bottom of the car outlin/footprint, a little bit in so they wouldn't easily be seen but still support the cake and allow room fot the tires. Then with the left over scraps I cut out enough squares and scraps to equal 5 pillars of cardboard 4 layers high. I then cut out areas on the sides of this to allow space for the tires later since this footprint would be at the bottom of the cake. Kind of like a "footprint" the cake would sit on. Then I cut it out and traced it's shape on the other half of the board and cut that out too and hot glued them together so it would be sturdier to hold the weight of the cake and the fondant. I drew a general outline/shape of the Mach 5, as if looking down on it from above, on one half of the cake board. Two of them were hot glued together and covered in foil and the third was used to make the support system I came up with. I used three 13" x 19" cardbaord cake boards for this cake.
Speed racer 2008 cake how to#
Here's the link to how to make the marshmallow fondant, which is pretty yummy, although very sweet! Pre-made fondant can be bought if you do not want to make the marshmallow fondant but beware that some of the pre-made doesn't taste very appetizing.
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I used store-bought cream cheese icing for this cake instead of making buttercream because the friend the cake was for wanted that type of icing. I used 2 boxes of cake mix to make this cake. Here's the link to the alterations made to a box cake mix to make it a little stronger to better support sculpting. A lot better than the name-brand mat I had bought before for $20.00. The cake shop I took some classes at suggested this mat for fondant and they sold it there for only $6.00 and it works so great. *The photos here are of the vinyl mat I use to roll my fondant on.
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I used a quarter sheet pan for both boxes of mix. A lot of the supplies are general cake baking and decorating supplies. There are also recipes or links to recipes used.