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My son's B-day today. Batmobile Cake.

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dicjones

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How did you get it off the cutting board and onto the actual cake?

 

Actually I carved it on the bottom side of a no stick pan so it lifted right off. It wasn't necessarily planned that way, it was just the nearest elevated work surface from which to work. Plus that pan was already dirty...I hate doing dishes...even with a dishwasher...lol.

 

Yeah, we had a lot of fun doing it. Last year his cake was a green lantern cake in the shape of the green lantern symbol with a little cartoony green lantern guy coming out of it. It wasn't quite as good as this one, but fun to make nonetheless.

 

We make cakes like this every year for both the kids. We ask them what they would like and we do our best to make it. My son actually wanted a Batman cake...but we thought the Batmobile would be easier and present a much better final product.

 

Thanks for all the nice comments...I knew you guys would enjoy it.

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Here is the Wallace and Gromit cake our 5 year old wanted last August for her B-Day. This came after the Green Lantern cake. These characters were made with rice crispy treats and covered with either modeling chocolate or fondant. My wife spent so much time making the characters that when it came time to assemble the cake and create the garden she was short on time so it didn't turn out as well as she wanted I don't think.

 

The vegetables are made form starburst, heated up, combined and shaped into different things.

 

My wife really deserves most of the credit for all of this. The Batmobile cake was the first cake where I really did most of the decorating. I've always just been her helper.

 

We try to make everything edible. It is sooo much fun watching everybody dig into these cakes and taste test different parts of it. It has this sort of Willy Wonka feel to it.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f54/dicjones/WallaceandGromitCake.jpg[/img]]Wallace and Gromit

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Okay, I've come this far might as well go all the way back.

 

This is how the whole thing started. Innocent enough at first, nice and simple. Again everything edible, except for the stems on the cattails in the last cake...used wooden kabobs for those, oh, and the stems on the flowers.

 

Our 5 year olds first birthday...first time she had really had chocolate. First thing she ate was the raspberries, made my wife so proud.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f54/dicjones/ReecesfirstB-daycake.jpg[/img]]Reece's first

 

Her second Birthday.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f54/dicjones/ReecesMangoFlowerCake.jpg[/img]]Reece's 2nd

 

Our son's first birthday.The bulldozer is made from mangos

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f54/dicjones/BecksMangoBulldozercake.jpg[/img]]Beck's first.

 

Reece's third birthday.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f54/dicjones/ReecesthirdB-daycake.jpg[/img]]Reece's third.

 

This is where the proverbial mess hit the fan. Beck's second birthday. We never looked back after this...

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f54/dicjones/Beckstraincake.jpg[/img]]Beck's second.

 

Reece's fourth...this is probably my favorite and I don't even have good pics for it...sigh.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f54/dicjones/Reece-sfourthb-daycake3.jpg[/img]]Reece's Fourth http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f54/dicjones/Reecesfourthb-daycake.jpg[/img]]Reece's fourth 2 http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f54/dicjones/Reece-sfourthb-daycake2.jpg[/img]]Reece's fourth 3

 

The rest I have already posted. Not sure where we are going to go from here, but I guess that will be Reece's to decide in August.

 

Honestly these cakes aren't too hard to make. All you need is a little planning and patience and voila!

 

 

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This is great! This is what the boards should be, people that aren't afraid to post

about their lives and what they like to do with it being in or even outside the hobby.

 

Strong Guy is great with fondant too... he has a link somewhere of some cakes

that he did for his kid for the cub scouts!

 

 

I think the Wallace and Grommit was killer!

 

Makes me want to clap my fists together and say "cheese"!

 

 

(thumbs u

 

 

 

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This is great! This is what the boards should be, people that aren't afraid to post

about their lives and what they like to do with it being in or even outside the hobby.

 

Strong Guy is great with fondant too... he has a link somewhere of some cakes

that he did for his kid for the cub scouts!

 

 

I think the Wallace and Grommit was killer!

 

Makes me want to clap my fists together and say "cheese"!

 

 

(thumbs u

 

 

 

You're such an odd, odd man.

 

Don't ever change, you crazy nerfherder, you.

 

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