House on fire! Call the firefighters!!

My little nephew wanted a fire truck cake for his 4th birthday. Well, you should know the party theme were knights and everything with it. I thought he might want a knight's cake, but my bad.

The bad thing, I had to work and I had to fix the cake too. So I had to cheat with the fondant. Got a black, red and blue fondant from a bake shop nearby. Thought it would be a good idea, but nope. The colors are really awesome and really strong, but to work with it, it wasn't so good. Next time I have to try it on my own, but I bet, I won't get such a strong black color. Anyway, let me show you the result.

Doesn't look too bad. But it could be better!

As usual I baked my amazing biscuit. I made 3 cookie sheets of biscuit. One for the ground, one for the house and the 3rd one for the fire truck.

After cutting it in the right shape, I covered it with buttercream.

I used one for the ground, where I wanted to set up the burning house and a fire truck.

Cutting another biscuit into a little tower. The only problem were the different shapes of the biscuit. I put some jam between the layers and cut them into the right shape and finished it with covering it with buttercream.

The next step were forming the fire truck. As you can see, I really worked hard to get it right. Just covered with buttercream it looked like an elephant without the trunk. I also cut the wheels out of the biscuit.

After fighting with the red fondant, the house looked like this. I covered the ground layer with green marshmallow fondant, so it would look like a green field or so.

After creating, cutting and covering both, the house and the truck, I placed both on the ground layer. Forming a little sidewalk in front of the house and putting the black fondant covered wheels into place.

I worked until midnight and on the next morning I finished it up. Created a little fireplug, a house, some fire elements on the house and the little things on the fire truck. I don't think it looks soo bad. Well, it's not a masterpiece from a bakery shop, but it's made with love and a lot of patience.

But the most important part, my nephew loved it! We had horrible warm days in a row and the fondant started to melt. Maybe next time I will use a hardener. But after creating such piece, you will always find something which you could have done better.

Sweet Sixteen Birthday Cake

I found it very difficult to bake a birthday cake for a friend's daughter, who celebrates her sixteent birthday. What kind of cake will you make? After a long discussion with my friend, I decided to bake a usual one, because I don't think I can create a bloody horror one.

So this time you will be probably disappointed, but I promise to make it up.

It wasn't such a big deal, but my friend's daughter liked it. I used a biscuit and marshmallow fondant.