Again another car cake, I'm trying to get them out there while I can :) This one was a almost black, slightly purple, soft top Porsche Boxter. Again done in the similar way as the other car cakes but this time as it was a soft top the roof was painted with black food coloring to give the matte effect of the material after I had sprayed the car with mother of pearl. This one was vanilla again.
On this cake you will see the windows are white but I have put a wash of light blue food coloring over them to give a kind of glass glaze effect, just adds a little more detail to it.
This is great! I just saw this today and have been looking for some ideas. What did you use for your cake base? I have a friend who wants this very thing for his birthday this Sun, 14th. His car is actually silver in color. I have never made a car before. Any tips would be very appreciated (i.e., fondant/gum paste, type of cake, pan,pattern, etc).
ReplyDeleteHello there, Please forgive the delay in coming back to you, have been in Poland for a while and just getting back on my feet.
ReplyDeleteThe basic cake was a Vanilla Sponge. Its cut roughly to the dimensions of the car and then you use a very thick butter icing to create the curves for the lights and side and back. I find that having a hot bowl of boiling water to smooth the icing out helps. You put you plastic smoothing tool in the hot water and then when its heated up a little shake off the excess water and use it to smooth or round the edges. I would put it in the fridge at this point for about 2 hours. The fondant is coloured with the baisis car colour to start with and then when you have it on the car smooth enough that your happy with it, I put it in the fridge to set for couple more hours.
Then I go back and start putting all the little doors and lines that the car has, mark and cut the windows and lights out with a craft knife and then fill then with a sheet of white fondant icing or black depending what look you want. I don’t normally need to add anything to the fondant for cars to make it more sturdy, its usually ok.
I would say if your doing a silver car do a light grey and use something like a mother of pearl lustre power to give it a metallic finish. I use an air brush and just mix the power with a little water and spray the cake but I have used a large brush, sort of like a blusher brush to apply the powder and then steam the outside of the cake to get the same effect.
I would say as long as you have a firm sponge and a think butter cream you should be fine.
It takes me a while to get the car shapes right, It took me up to 6 hours one night so don’t worry if it doesn’t seem to go perfect straight away. Oh and get all angles of the car it helps so much unless you have a small miniature of the car to hand!
Hope this helps!