A cake in the shape of a #5

When we were planning Adri’s birthday he pulled out a book that I have of different fun cakes for kids. He asked me to make one for him. There were a lot of them and I don’t have any experience in baking cakes and making such complicated decorations, so I told him I would make the #5 cake and he was very happy.

I then thought about the theme of the party: the movie Cars, so I decided to make a road and add a Lighting McQueen and a Mator, I got those as regular toys and just placed them on top and it everything turned out great!

It wasn’t that easy though, I did have to research a lot in Google, ask around, post in twitter, find the trays I needed, the type of frosting, etc, etc. Here is a little summary of the process:

• I baked 2 cakes, a round one and a square that I cut into 2 rectangles to make the shape of the five.

• I got too much frosting,  (I realized later after I finished, sooo much left over!) but I was nervous about the red because all the info I found said that it is the hardest color to obtain because as soon as you mix the ink with white it turns out pink. But I did found a Wilton forum that recommended to get the Re-Red and Red (No Taste) Icing colors, and that really worked well!!

• For the black I used chocolate frosting and added black color so it became black pretty easy.

• I added a white line in between both colors and the dotted line thru the middle to make the road. I was very unsure on where to place the candles but my mom was there to help me with Maya, calm me down when I thought it wasn’t going to work out and bounce ideas (thanks mami!) and we found that place to be the perfect spot. It wasn’t easy to find red candles btw, they mostly come in pastel colors, but I found a package of bright bold colors that had them.

• You’ll notice that the final cake was a little broken in the middle (see photo below). It was starting to melt! So, I should have left it in the fridge during the party but I wanted to show it off!! It was so hard to take the pictures os the step-by-step meanwhile making and decorating a cake for the first time but I loved it and the boy was absolutely happy on his day despite anything else! 😉

• Le añadí una linea blanca entre cada color y la líneas que dividen los carriles de la pista. Estaba un pooco indecisa en donde poner las velitas pero mi mamá estaba aquí conmigo ayudándome con Mayita, calmándome cuando me volvía loca pensando que no me iba a quedar bien  a tomar decisiones (gracias mamita!) y decidimos que el lugar perfecto era el que ven en la foto abajo. Por cierto, no me fué fácil encontrar velas rojas, las venden en colores pasteles casi siempre pero estas las encontré en un paquete que tenía varios colores fuertes.

• Notarán que la torta final está un poquito rota en la mitad (vean la foto aquí abajo). Se estaba empezando a derretir! La he debido de dejar en la nevera durante la fiesta pero es que quería dejarla afuera para que adornara la fiesta y la gente la viera!! Me costó bastante tomar fotos de todo el proceso mientras que la estaba haciendo y al final también porque la luz no era nada buena pero Adri quedó fascinado con su torta y muy muy feliz en su día!