Disclaimer: Look, I'm not pretending like I'm some skilled cake artist here. In retrospect, I can think of at least a dozen things I did wrong or could have done better. That said, it was just meant to be fun and different and one of a kind. Birthday cakes are a special thing and should be treated as such. Just use your imagination and the person that you give it to will appreciate it.
Now, Children of the 80s unite!
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This is my tasty buddy Voltron.
Well, he was my buddy before we ate him.
I'd say he came out more fun than accurate.
It took 2 boxes of cake mix, 2 tubs of frosting,
4 tubes of cake icing and 8 jelly beans for the eyes to complete him.
I've messed around a little with cake decorating before, but nothing that was ever this elaborate.
(note: The white frosting is "fluffy white" and was pretty runny).
The good allergy news is that he's nut free, dairy free, and egg free.
(I love Ener-G egg replacer.)
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Cake Voltron is made up of a double layer chocolate center (9" cake pans)
and vanilla arms and legs (courtesy of some food dye and tiny disposable baking tins).
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I looked over at the cake and realized the Green Lion was smiling.
Like I said, I could have done a bunch of things differently like make my own frosting which would have been easier to work with and resulted in a neater and cleaner cake. Also, I would have given him his wings and made his face look a lot fancier. That said, he's still cute, he serves twelve, and we will all miss him.
Well, that's just flat impressive!
ReplyDeletethanks!
DeleteI think it's adorable! I could never have done so well. I'll bet your kids loved it.
ReplyDeleteIndeed they did!
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