Bugatti Veyron Cake

This is yet another car cake but this time with part of the Sunderland Football Club on the bonnet. A strange shaped car and a challenge the logo is painted with black food colouring and the silver parts with the edible silver paint again.

Ambulance Cake

This was done for a girl who was in training to be a paramedic, her mother thought it would be something nice. Had to do another cake for this one as well as the normal 8 by 12, I did a 8 by 8 to build it up a little more. But this one was a little easier as not as many curves and dents. But its not a particular type of ambulance as I couldn't get details of the vehicle in question to the exact make and model so its an amalgamation of all different kinds.

So yeah, not too bad but could have used a bigger board, that's a 10 inch board its struggling to sit on.

Porsche Boxter Cake

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.

Ferrari Car Cake

This cake was a vanilla and jam cake. I start the car cakes off by baking an 8 inch by 12 inch slab of cake, and then I divide the cake into 3 sections. 2 which are roughly 5 inch's wide and the smaller piece is then cut to make the top of the car.

Then its just a matter of shaping the cake best you can depending on what type of car you are doing. I find that usually using a really thick vanilla butter icing is the best thing to get all the curves and dents on the vehicle. Believe it or not I have some plasticine modeling tools that I use. (They have never been used on plasticine so no worries there).

I would leave the cake to cool in a fridge for about a minimum of 2 hours, then apply the fondant icing. I find to get it as smooth a possible and then work back into it, to shape the doors and windows and so on. At this point I would recommend popping it back in the fridge for another hour at minimum to let the fondant set a little.

I then tend to cut the windows out using a craft knife (for cake use only), and then roughly cut a piece of black or white fondant for the windows and pop it in, trimming where needed. I do the same for the wheels and the lights and some times if there is a grid on the front. Bumpers and little wing mirrors with handles and wheels all get made and put on as you make them.

To put a finishing tough on the car cakes I have an air brush and compressor. I mix a little 'Mother of Pearl' Powder with some water and then air brush the cake before I put things like the registration or any piping detail on.

 Oooo, Red!

So there we have a car cake in the shape of a Ferrari. Please enjoy.