Friday, July 6, 2012

Tangled Tower Cake and the Tangled Party...

Well, our daughter's 8th Birthday is over and it was fun!  The cake took pretty much a whole day, I'm really happy with how it turned out.  Thankfully I have a handy husband who made the support for the cake.  He took a piece of plywood, cut out a hole to fit a piece of pvc pipe, secured the pipe and cut a hole on the cake board as well. 



The tower was covered in MMF and the details were gumpaste.  I used a cobblestone mat for the tower, then covered it with more MMF colored to match the stucco (whatever the tower is).  To get the aged effect I balled up a piece of aluminum foil and went over the MMF with it.  I then took a paper towel and dipped it in brown food paste and water to help the coloring of the tower.  The biggest job was the roof shingles.  For the hill I used to small bowls that I baked cake in. I finished the cake and tower with some buttercream decorations and went over the edge of the cake with rosettes.  The birthday girl loved it!



I also made some magical flower punch.  I took a container of frozen lemonade, another of frozen pineapple juice, a 2 liter of sprite, water and star ice cubes.  It was delicious!  I also did the jello boats, but I ran out of time to make the sails.  I thought they were still cute.  I also had our party staples of fried rice and pizza. 





Overall it was a lot of work and I wish I would've managed my time better, but in the end we had a great party.  I loved taking the theme and bringing it to life!








                      The beautiful Princess of the day, wearing the Rapunzel hair I made her.