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! :)
