Mudding Truck Cake
Monday, May 3, 2010
Prior to this cake, the only other sculptural cake I've had a chance to work on was a Littlest Pet Shop Cake for a friend from High School's daughter's birthday. When we created that cake we used rice crispy treats for a majority of the shaping, and the head was cake. This one was a little scary because it was my first time carving cake, but I was thankful that it was a cakey shaped project so it was relatively low stress. If I would have had more time to plan this cake I would change one thing about the over all structure, and that is to make the wheel wells sculpted instead of just painted on... however I didn't have a support system figured out to be able to do that safely so I improvised. Overall I am satisfied with the way this cake turned out. I have decided I need an airbrush so that future cakes of this nature can have a more consistent paint job (Bree has one, but it wasn't accessible to me). My main fear was that it would come across too cartoony, but I think I added enough details for it to hit the targeted age. Happy 16th birthday Hunter! Hope you get your wheels soon ;oP
May 9, 2010 at 1:16 PM
That's cool! I'm sure the birthday boy loved it too! Boys and their trucks...I guess they (trucks) never get old, huh?
May 15, 2010 at 12:41 AM
LOL he loved it enough for it to be facebook worthy so that's a win especially at 16 :D