Car Cakes

We went shopping at a mall. the malls here are so big it is a lot of fun to go walking through and see what stores they have here in Houston that they don't have in Salt lake. We got Rocklond a new Sunday outfit. here are some pictures of John and Rocklond already for church.

     I started making cakes again. One of John's friends is having a birthday and so I suggested I could make a cake. well things quickly escalated from there.  I have only done two cakes with fondant and they were both simple Round cakes. It wasn't until I was rolling out the fondant for the first cake that I realized this would be a little different. but they actually turned out to not be too hard to make. I don't know why we ended up making two cakes. I think it was a miss communication between John and I.
Here is the car cake with the crumb layer of frosting.

this is the car right after I put on the fondant (I was going for bright orange but got to tiered of kneeing food coloring in the fondant.)

and the finished car

Here is the other cake that we made. I was joking that it is too bad that his friend wasn't turning 8. I really like how I got the road to go down to a lower level and then it goes up a bridge to the upper cake. I don't recommend making chocolate fondant  which is what we did for the Road and the car windows. for some reason the coco powder makes it almost impossible to work with.

this was a fun activity to do as a family except I think Rocklond felt a little left out. he spent most of the time carring his sock around in his mouth. He would come up to us and try and hand us his sloppy stocking. I think he was happier than anyone when the cakes were done.