So.... be proud of me, I finally moved away from 'the box' of cake mix! I found an amazing chocolate cake recipe on another baking blog I read and it is just awesome. I baked a couple batches of the cake, threw them in the freezer and then started putting everything together (I highly recommend freezing your cake especially when layering because it makes it soooo much easier to handle large sections of cake without breakage)
Ah yes, chocolate cake, chocolate icing and cherries.... yummy!
Top layer on... again, frozen cake... super easy to put on!!
I tooth picked down my photocopied stencil to cut out the car shape for the top of the cake.... frozen cake is super easy to cut and it hardly leaves any crumbles, nice clean edges.
Since the cake is cartoony anyhow, it was great to ice backgrounds without worrying about things being smooth! I wanted the mountains to have movement.
So the background is butter cream... and for the road, I formed it out of chocolate icing, which is stickier than the butter cream, so the Oreo cookie crumbs would stick and look more like a nice asphalt road.
If you are wondering how I got my cake plate so clean after working with Oreo crumbs.... haha... I got out the vacuum... :) (totally not joking, I did!!)
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