So I got it into my pea brain that I wanted to make a fun cake for Alex's birthday. Nothing commercial, he's too young for Lighting McQueen or even Elmo (I hope he never does get into that kind of thing!). I chose a bee because of his bee hat. that I loved so much I bought it in the next size up too. The mascot of our university is a bee (Go Stingers!). Yeah, we're dorks.
So I've been planning out this cake, getting cake decorating tools, made a test cake (never buy baking soda from a corner store) and have been watching youtube videos on cake decorating. Did I mention I'm a planner? I even got my husband in on it. He used his professional engineering software to come up with a plan for the cake based on the pans I have and the cake carrier it's going in.
He asked if I wanted a finite element analysis on the cake. Umm, noooo, that would be ridiculous!
So I've been slowly working on the cake for almost a week. Baked one layer, then another day baked the second. My freezer is filled with cake parts. Made the chocolate frosting on Thursday and the vanilla frosting this morning.
I just want to make a nice cake and not have it look like this:
But it doesn't need to be as fancy as this cake I like to call the Louis Beeton:
I found this image that matches perfectly the shape of the cake I'm going for (see above engineered bee shape):
This is doable...I think.
Next up, cake assembly and decorating. I feel like I've been studying for a history final. I know my material, it's just not my strongest subject.
2 comments:
Ooh- can't wait for pics! =)
That should be so cute! BTW, my son was into Lightening McQueen, and I made a racetrack cake putting two round cakes together. We had Cars characters racing on the track. So, you can do the charater ones at home and have them be cool!
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