A New Twist on an Old Cake

After Anabel's horse cake and everything I learned with it, I suddenly gained some confidence in my cakes.  My next cake was for one of my Husband's co-workers, (well actually it was his boss) so it had to look good.  My husband takes most of the extras and rejects in to work to share with his buddies, and even the ugly ones are still scrumptious, so it was just a matter of time before someone asked for a specific cake.


This one was for Kameron who was turning 2 and was another Disney Cars fan - it seems I'll get my money's worth out of that Wilton pan after all.  This time I wanted to do something a little different and chose to cover the cake in fondant.  I found pictures of 3 or 4 other cakes that I liked and made my own version of the combination.  Here's what I came up with:

This is also a 2 layer cake, white with vanilla butter cream.  From what I hear, the birthday boy loved it.  I think I'm going to have to start delivering my cakes so I can see the faces of the recipient.  

Since this is my learning blog, I learned that it's ok to think out of the box and that I see way more of the imperfections than the others.  If someone doesn't regularly make cakes themselves chances are, they don't notice most of the imperfections.

Eventually as my confidence builds, I will start sharing what I learned with you.  I am 100% self taught.  I'm too cheap to take classes, so I spend a great deal of time researching how-to's.  Eventually my goal is to get everything in to one place for other beginners out there.