Julie - 21 October 2008 09:22 AM
What a great cake, your son must have been so happy!
How did you do the vertical part? Does that have cake in it? Cardboard supports? And what flavors were the inside of the cake? Is the black a chocolate-based fondant?
It’s funny, I had been thinking that I couldn’t imagine a cake with black fondant, but now I see that it makes perfect sense! And I don’t know if there were any issues with fondant coloring their mouths, but boys of that age probably thought it was great fun if their mouths did turn colors! My daughter loves it when a lollipop turns her mouth blue!
Actually the top part of this cake is a foam board covered in fondant. I then pushed several dowel rods through to support that board so it would not break. The hardest thing was constructing the cake board to support the top, i ended up using a large dowel rod and drilling holes into that so the top piece could slip into it. The bottom part of this is the actual cake. It is a half chocolate and a half vanilla sheet cake. My son does not like fondant so it is covered in black buttercream. I used the Wilton Gel to color it black, I have found that it does not stain the mouth as bad. The controllers were rectangle brownie snacks and those were covered in fondant.
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