Airplane cake part 2

As you can see the cake came together great!! But I will finish taking you through how we got there!

Yesterday we left off here…

I pushed it back up and started on a new one! Luckily I was semi prepared for this outcome. So I added two more couplers and plugs and screwed the same plywood used for the wings onto the PVC plugs. (I hope that makes some sense)

After making more rice crispies I started molding the new plane!

Than even more!

Once I was satisfied with that, it was finally time to frost and fondant!! Here’s a nice thin layer of buttercream to help smooth everything out

Now fondant

Then came the details to make it an American Airlines plane!

Then I laid fondant over the base… I prepped and frosted the actual cake part of the cake

(Sorry I didn’t get pics of the assembly but you can still see everything Lindsey and I did to make it come together.

We put the plane on, iced the grass around, painted the base fondant, and added the Birthday girls name!

Thank you to Frank for allowing me to make this cake for Lourdes!

Also check out:
Sister site: Craft Making and Drag Racing

Lindsey’s Jewelry: Hard Wear by Lindsey (Awesome stuff)

Rustified.com – Lifestyle Inspirations from a Renaissance Man (I love his blog- 365 page book for this year, recipes, & daily inspirations)

Rusty J’s Music Site

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Airplane cake part 1

I mentioned this yesterday but the last three days I have been making this airplane cake for a client that is a friend. I cannot show you all of it today because the lovely lady he bought it for doesn’t get it until this afternoon! But I can show you part 1.

The idea for the cake is a 3-D airplane over a Tarmac. So Lindsey, Riley, and I started designing and engineering the structure. We decided to make the plane from Rice Crispies. And the Tarmac the cake.

Shopping trip, cake supplies.

I started my screwing the new 2ft x 2 ft Cake board onto a previously made cake stand

Adding PVC plugs onto the base for the plane stability.

While I was doing this Lindsey started planning the wings and drawing them onto very thin plywood.

Next we started cutting PVC for the plane structure.

Lindsey started making rice crispy treats for molding.

And we set off to molding the plane….

By the end of our molding it looked like this …

But by the next morning it looked like this…

And even worse later in the day….

Come back tomorrow to see how we fix the airplane and completed the cake!!!

Part 2 tomorrow! I promise it all worked out for the best

Also check out:
Sister site: Craft Making and Drag Racing

Lindsey’s Jewelry: Hard Wear by Lindsey (Awesome stuff)

Rustified.com – Lifestyle Inspirations from a Renaissance Man (I love his blog- 365 page book for this year, recipes, & daily inspirations)

Rusty J’s Music Site

Gooey S’more Cookies!

We are all so exhausted from this whirlwind of a week but it was so awesome! Having Rusty J, Sabrina, and Sierra here was fantastic, we all had a blast with the whole group.

After everyone left yesterday Lindsey called and wanted to bake, I was so tired we decided to wait and relax last night instead. But I want to share these cookies I made for Sierra. She loves S’mores so I made:

Gooey S’more Cookies

I started with a basic Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe.

2 Sticks Butter
1 C Sugar
1/2 C Brown Sugar
2 Eggs
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1 tsp. Salt
1 TBSP Vanilla
2 to 2 1/4 C Flour

After the base batter is done:

• Crush some graham cracker

• Add Chocolate Chips and the crushed graham cracker.

• Add mini marshmallows or if you only have large ones cut them up.
(That’s what I did – this gets messy so I used powdered sugar to help ease the sticky mess when cutting)

• Mix that all up well

• Scoop onto prepared pans, due to the marshmallow I recommend a little cooking spray on the parchment.

• Cut up a bit more marshmallow for the top of each cookie

• Bake at 350 for 8 minutes

Also check out:
Sister site: Craft Making and Drag Racing

Lindsey’s Jewelry: Hard Wear by Lindsey (Awesome stuff)

Rustified.com – Lifestyle Inspirations from a Renaissance Man (I love his blog- 365 page book for this year, recipes, & daily inspirations)

Rusty J’s Music Site