My husband had a wonderful birthday celebration this past weekend. On Friday, I had a small gathering of friends to surprise him at a local resturant for dinner. For an extra special surprise I made him a birthday cake shaped like a car. I had the cake hid at one of my friends homes until the party. He loves cars and everything doing with cars and even used to have a little yellow sports car. He loved it and so did everyone else. No one really seemed to believe me that I had made this cake. I made it and I have the two days of being tired to prove it.
I used the Wilton 3-D car cake pan for the car shape and used a regular rectangle pan for the bottom of the cake. I made buttercream icing, that I learned to make from the cake decorating class that I took this past summer. In decorating the cake, I used the star tip for the car and wheels and the grass tip for the grass. For a the actual cake I made a pound cake recipe for the car and a yellow cake for the bottom. The rocks and the gold balls were edible. The windows I used piping gel to make them shiny. The only thing that was not edible was the straws that I used for the exhaust pipes and the board that I used to set the cake on. The cake was very tasty and everyone really said it was good. One of my friends husband's, who like to fish even asked if I could make a fish cake for his birthday. We will see about that..I have not done that before, but I had never done a car cake before either.
I wanted to give a little update as to what we did for my husband's birthday. I will update you about the rest of the weekend later. Have a great
Wednesday!!!
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