Hot rod Cake

This was the first project of the weekend... my task was to create a hot rod cake. I was given the following two photos to work from.

And this is what I came up with:

For this car I decided to try out a brand of fondant called Satin Ice. Basically everything on the car that is black is Satin Ice. I liked that it came in a little plastic tub. I liked that it seems a but more robust than other fondants I have used. It had a slight vanilla taste to it which was quite nice. It is a bit more expensive I think than other brands I have used, but I think it's a good product for extra special projects.

I also brought a little pot of silver paint which looked really effective on the "metal" parts of the cake.

The recipient of the cake seemed really pleased with it and was already taking photos for facebook before I had left from dropping it off.

4 Racing Cars

4 little fondant cars... I can just imagine these sitting on top of a little boys birthday cake :)

Big Red Car

Apparently Wiggles gear can be hard to source these days, so I was asked if I could make a big red car figure for a 2 year old birthday boy.

I had to have a giggle yesterday... when the big red car (which was made from solid fondant) was out on display, one of the guests decided to try and take a bite out of the blue wiggles head. This is as far as he got: Can you see the wee teeth marks on his head? :)

Subaru Cake

Just thought I would post a couple of piccys of my latest cake: