The way the water reacts with the fondant leaves it glossy, so it looked like it has been shellacked. I made sure to have it darker in some areas, lighter in others, and tried to make it look old and used. First I’d use almost a 100% concentration of gel to go over the score marks, then I’d blend it out with the water, and some gel-tinted water. Then I used a food-only paintbrush, some water, and some brown icing gel and covered the sides and top completely. I went around the cake again with a black edible ink marker, randomly making little lines and drawing knots in the wood. I went around the top edge and made little cuts as if the wood was weathered and beat up. Then I sat down to do the wood grain.įirst I went around the cake, using a sharp knife to score the fondant lightly to look like the individual wood slats. Once the icing had crusted over I went back over it with the blue icing, mixing the two with my knife as I went, and chopping it up a bit so it looked frothy and bubbly. I put the cake in the fridge for a bit to set up. I dabbed the back of the fondant lightly with a q-tip in water, and pressed onto the sides of the cake, smoothing well to remove any air bubbles. It took me 2 strips to go around the width, but I made the seams look like seams in the wood, so you can’t tell. I rolled out white fondant until I had it almost long enough to go around the cake.

First I took some of my leftover icing and tinted it a pale blue, then set it aside. I had more time that afternoon, so I started decorating. I then gave a quick crumb-coat over the whole cake. I wanted a white layer as the top so none of the red would show or seep through the top layer of icing, just in case. On Friday I made a batch of buttercream, leveled the cakes, torted them (sliced them in half widthwise) and iced in between, stacking them, from the bottom up, red, icing, white, icing, red, icing, white. That was on the Thursday before the party (Sunday). I wanted them a bit more dense than a regular box mix, so while I did use Betty Crocker mixes, I doctored them with less oil and added instant pudding mix. First I baked 2 (9″?) round cakes, both vanilla but one tinted red. I made the cake part, then Laura helped to decorate. This is the cake my sister Laura and I made for Mom’s 60th birthday. At least this post is about another birthday, and another sweet treat.) Once again I only used my camera, not cell phone camera, and don’t have it handy or the pics uploaded. I stayed home while Yannick took the kids to swimming, and started cooking the food/making dip/etc for Henri’s 3rd bday party tonight. (Today was actually a pretty fun and busy day. Remember back in October I showed a pic of my mom’s birthday cake? And said how I would post more on it later? It’s later!

Happy birthday betty boop cake pics