Please help me construct this cake!

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lisainla

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I make my kids' birthday cakes every year, and this year is a tough one. I usually have some idea of where to start, but I'm at a loss of this one.

It is a Bionicle mask:

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/LisainLA/P7230131.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/LisainLA/P7230132.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/LisainLA/P7230133.jpg

The only idea I have right now is to carve it out of a huge mass of cake, so it doesn't collapse.

 
Some thoughts on that . . .

Are you thinking about trying to do a 3-D version of this? If so, structural integrity will be a significant challenge due to all the openings and protuberances.

If it were me doing this, I'd use thatfirst picture as my template. Bake a sheet cake, carve it to look like the mask (as one would look at it from the front) then, go crazy with white frosting. Gold tint for the base, highlights and shadows with Black tint. Finding those tints will also be a challenge but if anyone can do it, it'll be you.

Take pictures!

 
LisainLA , suggestion for you

Have you visited the message boards at Sugarcraft?
I used to, but not for quite some time. It's cake construction, decorating.

Link: www.sugarcraft.com Then under the moving butterfly, message board is the last link listed.

Then there is a list of subjects.. such as cake ideas and suggestions.

Good luck,
Ann

 
Form by molding "rice crispy treats" into this shape, coat with thinned, tinted fondant

then set it on a flat or tiered cake with--perhaps an edible image of the source of this...thing? Geez, you can tell I don't have kids, huh.

 
Or...cover with chocolate icing, blow up this image to correct size, put a piece of acetate over it

then trace outline with melted white chocolate disks. Fill in with more tinted white chocolate. After it hardens, carefully lift and place on cake.

 
The only suggestion I would have is to make it flat, not 3-D. Well, it would

technically be "3-D" but I mean I wouldn't try to make it taller than 1 layer. Then just cut of other pieces and assemble to look like the mask? But I haven't read the others' suggestions yet, so they might have better ideas for you.

 
Thanks everyone! I'll have to mull this over and get started.

Marilyn, I like the Rice Krispie Treats idea, unfortunately DS does not like them. smileys/frown.gif

Bionicles are a Lego product, popular with the 7-16 male crowd. We have a virtual factory in my son's room.......smileys/bigsmile.gif I knew eventually one would make it's way onto a cake!

 
Thanks Steve, I'm thinking this is the direction I'm going to head. SInce I'm not

Since I'd never make it at Charm City Cakes, there is only so far I can take this. smileys/smile.gif

 
Start with an Egg shaped cake mold, carve shape, then make the 3-D part from fondant?

Frost the cake the color you want to show in the cutouts, then color the 3-D mask with edible paint in the appropriate colors and add any details you like with very small paint brushes.

 
LOL! I've you'd seen my previous "creations", this is entirely within the realm of possibility! smileys/bigsmile.gif

 
This was one of my thoughts, the egg shaped cake as a base. I think it might work!

The bad part is I have zero fondant experience.

Well, I did cover a Lightning McQueen cake with purchased red fondant sheets, but that doesn't count.......

 
I had a similar thought: use an egg shaped cake mold for the base...

...then do the 3-D parts in cake and attach them with icing, then ice the whole thing. I think that if you baked a small square cake you could cut parts from that for the 3-D pars.

I'd probably have to do a practice run...

 
You are the only one who will worry about any mistakes, The kids will eat them!

Cake or almost paste could be used to make 3-D add ons, secured w/toothpicks or shortened wooden skewers.

 
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