Thursday, June 4, 2009

Making a cake...

Our ward had a YW/YM fundraiser with a auction. They were wanting people to sign up for services or what not that they would donate. I thought, I don't have any thing and I can't really DO anything for anyone... then I thought, well I guess I could do a cake, I love to do them and as long as it isn't SUPER hard, I can fake my way through it. The lady that got it, wanted me to make a cake for her son's 3rd birthday party (today) and her son wanted a HULK cake. I was like, uh... how about a butterfly or princess castle? I can do those, I can't do a HULK cake. With much thought and experimenting (and internet searching), I came up with a cake.


The bad thing is when I do a cake or something time consuming... Amber is on the loose to do whatever she decides to do. This morning, she colored herself like a "giraffe" and even colored Samantha's face like a "giraffe." Although you can't see Amber's face too much in the picture and I didn't get a picture of Samantha since she was sleeping. Even with a few giraffe's in my house, I managed to get the cake done. Phew!

And I was okay with the results. The hand looked better before I put it on the cake, and it looked better yesterday. Today it got all flat from laying on the plate and I had a hard time making it more 3D. I hope the lady likes it, or more so, I hope her son it good with it.



It seems kind of yucky, grey frosting? But it does taste normal. And the bricks are graham crackers in frosting too.
I love doing cakes, I just stress out too much over it I guess when I do them for other people.

7 comments:

Karen Brothersen said...

That looks soooooo freakin awesome Karla! The hard work paid off! Maybe next time you could hide the markers! ha ha

Wendy said...

Holy Cow! That looks so good. How did you do the hands?

Marie said...

That cake is a-w-e-s-o-m-e!

** Adrian ** said...

OH MY GOSH!!! That cake is AMAZING!!! It's even better than I pictured from your description!! I wish I could make cakes like you!!!

It looks like I've missed about a dozen of your posts...I'm gonna have to find some time to get caught back up on you guys!!

It was good talking to you today!!

The Jones :) said...

That is AMAZING...you are pretty talented lady!!! Amber is hilarious...and I can't believe she just colors herself to be a new animal!! :) That's funny...I didn't know you did cakes and enjoyed it...that is great!! And I don't see anything wrong with the hand!?!?!? Oh and by the way...you're more then welcome to come to Minnesota next time!! You're used to LONG drives...so we can go together!!!

Jamie said...

I just finished an "ipod" cake for Rachel's bday tomorrow. Then I come over and see yours. wow. I was feeling all confident in my cake making ability til I saw that cake. You are very talented Karla. How did you make the fist???? you are going to have to post again just to explain the fist...

Karla said...

The mystery hand... is Fondant. It is soft sort of like play-doh or clay, so you just work it like that, or that is what I did anyway. You can buy fondant at stores that sell cake decorating supplies. (I got it at Walmart) Then I used a knife to make the lines on the fingers and also to do the finger nails. That is the secret, which I guess isn't much of a secret anymore huh. Oh well.