Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Mario Kart Birthday Cake and Adventures in MMF

My best friend asked me to make a Mario Kart Cake for her son's 5th birthday.  I happily obliged.  :)  It was definitely the most fun I have had making a cake.  Probably because our family loves our Wii and the Nintendo characters.

I was a little nervous though because most of the time I don't have the best of luck with MMF (Marshmallow Fondant).  Most of the time it gets too dry and I get so tired of messing with it that I just use buttercream, since I know I can get it really smooth!  I knew with this cake though that I was going to HAVE to use MMF.  The sides were going to be checkerboard and I knew if I used buttercream the lines would get messed up when I smoothed them.

And then.....BAM!!  It hit me!  The MMF always sticks to my counters, so I remembered that Wilton sells a roll n cut mat for fondant!  So I bought that and I saw on Wilton's forum where someone said they used cooking spray on their hands and mat.  Talk about a dream! 

I also did a track on top of the cake and it ended up getting a few green buttercream spots on it that I could not get off....so, I took a paint brush and painted a little black icing color on it.  I ended up loving the effect because it looked like oil marks on the track!  Awesome!  I also made a banana peel, a red shell and a small pond. 

I was so happy with the end result, but more importantly my friend and her son loved it too!  :)

So without further ado, here are pictures of the cake.




Friday, June 8, 2012

Adventures in a Tangled Birthday


Our daughter Livia's 8th Birthday is coming up at the end of the month and I am already at work for it.  I finished making the invites.  I also have the structure for the cake planned.  See, she wants the tower.  :)  What we will do for our children!  There are many other things I am making too.  I figured she's going to be 8 and I want to not have as much of the store bought character stuff.  Well, at least closer to the movie.  I'm sure there will be more posts about this adventure!  I know 100% that I will take you through the tour of the cake.  :)



Oh, almost forgot...I found Tangled font and used it in the invite along with the font Majestic.  I love how it turned out!