Then cut and placed the drawing on the 13x9 cake...................
....and just cut around the drawing........
and placed all the pieces together and fashioned a cart & wheels and smoke pipe from the rest of the pieces.......couldn't fool Bumbles.....he knew just what it was.
The hardest part was finding the right color green. I used a whole tube of green gel dye and it still wasn't dark enough. So my mom and I ended up getting a puddle of green dye in a container from the local Smith's Market Place bakery. Then used chocolate butter cream frosting in a can and added black food color for the wheels, windows and smoke pipe.
Carter seems to have found the left over green frosting.
And voila, zee pherrfect mazter pieze! Well, maybe I would make the trailer a little shorter, but I was crunched for time and didn't have the time to think it through! So maybe next time, if our next child is a boy and likes tractors too!
Baking the cakes a day before assemblage I think saved the project, because the whole day of the party I circled the task. I would clean here and there, then go back to to cake. Then as I was piecing the cake together, I would think of something I needed to do. It took me most of the day and was finally getting done with it when my mother and father-in-law arrived.
Looking back on it. The cake was a fun challenge. Now I have more confidence to maybe make another cake next year! :)
I can't do that! I'm a no frosting, powdered sugar sprinkling mom, but so lovin' the tutorial. Just in case I try, I'll have this to keep going back to for reference. LOL
ReplyDeleteGreat cake, you did such an awesome job that there's no way he'd be fooled. ;-)
Thank you Carolyn, you are amazing, and you have your own talents that I admire. I wish I could have said this many years ago and not been so caught up in my own pride and low self-esteem. I don't want to compete with you I just want to enjoy each of our unique talents together and finally accept each other as we are. Now look at us, we are so caught up in our own frustration with each other, that we can't even talk to each other. I hope some day things can be different. Taryn's (Missy Moo's) passing has taught me so much about love, kindness and humility. I am grateful for my family, for my trials and for a loving Heavenly Father who never gives up on me. I wish there was some way we could start over, like we had never met, and see each other for who we are now and begin again.........
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