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Step 3The icing
I planned to use fondant icing right from the start. This was my second attempt at using the stuff. I wish I could take a course on the application of fondant because it really can't be as hard to work with as I find. What a pain in the butt this icing is!
To get the fondant to stick to the cake, you need to ice it with regular icing. It is way easier to ice if you freeze the cake first.
It is way easier to freeze the cake if you check the dimensions of your freezer prior to building the base!
I had to shuffle a lot of food around but I eventually got it to fit. Oh well, this was a seat of the pants project to begin with.
I mixed colours into the icing as I just bought one big white tub of fondant. The fondant needs to be rolled onto wax paper because it is quite sticky. It even sticks pretty well to the wax paper. I found this to be to my advantage in some cases as I rolled out the tracks. After I used a piece of wood to put the tread in, I stuck a piece of wax paper on top, flipped the whole thing over, peeled off the new top side of the wax paper and used the othe strip of wax paper still stuck to it to move it to the cake, placed it on the cake and then peeled the wax paper away.
One bit of foresight I had was to make the turret easily removable. This helped in decorating more than I can express. I perched the turret on a pitcher so it would not tip over on the push rod or the axle and decorated it there. The stainless barrel was wrapped with fondant and a little bit of detail was put on like a hatch with periscope.
Wheels were added on the side, these were just icing rolled flat and cut out with various sized cups and caps. The camouflage was added by smooshing random shapes. all detail is stuck in place by simply wetting the area you want to fix it too.
The last step was to crumble up some cookies to make the dirt the tank was driving on.
That's all folks! hope you enjoyed this and see you again next year for Brody's 7th birthday.
I'll post a vid of him blowing out the candles in a few days.
To get the fondant to stick to the cake, you need to ice it with regular icing. It is way easier to ice if you freeze the cake first.
It is way easier to freeze the cake if you check the dimensions of your freezer prior to building the base!
I had to shuffle a lot of food around but I eventually got it to fit. Oh well, this was a seat of the pants project to begin with.
I mixed colours into the icing as I just bought one big white tub of fondant. The fondant needs to be rolled onto wax paper because it is quite sticky. It even sticks pretty well to the wax paper. I found this to be to my advantage in some cases as I rolled out the tracks. After I used a piece of wood to put the tread in, I stuck a piece of wax paper on top, flipped the whole thing over, peeled off the new top side of the wax paper and used the othe strip of wax paper still stuck to it to move it to the cake, placed it on the cake and then peeled the wax paper away.
One bit of foresight I had was to make the turret easily removable. This helped in decorating more than I can express. I perched the turret on a pitcher so it would not tip over on the push rod or the axle and decorated it there. The stainless barrel was wrapped with fondant and a little bit of detail was put on like a hatch with periscope.
Wheels were added on the side, these were just icing rolled flat and cut out with various sized cups and caps. The camouflage was added by smooshing random shapes. all detail is stuck in place by simply wetting the area you want to fix it too.
The last step was to crumble up some cookies to make the dirt the tank was driving on.
That's all folks! hope you enjoyed this and see you again next year for Brody's 7th birthday.
I'll post a vid of him blowing out the candles in a few days.
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