Dreamers

 

CAKING IT: Last week, we cooked up another Birthday Dreams donation. The 12-year old girl loves to play video games on her Nintendo Switch, so we decided to make a life-sized edible Switch atop her chocolate brownie cake with white chocolate filling and vanilla buttercream. 

The handheld console is a big cookie covered in fondant, modeling chocolate and sugar sheet. We used CJ and Annabelle's Switch as our model.

Below, Annabelle is cutting homemade marshmallow fondant to cover the controllers. We were very careful to try to match the exact color of the Switch's red and blue.

The cookie was carefully tilted against a corn dog stick stuck down into the two-layer, quarter sheet cake.

We hope she liked it! (The name in the photo above has been changed for anonymity.)

Our previous project for Birthday Dreams was for a child who wanted a tie-dyed themed party. We wanted to do something more than just ice the cake in a tie-dyed theme, so we finally thought to make little tie-dyed t-shirt cookies to help decorate the cake.

The child's favorite colors were red, purple, and blue, so we used those to decorate the cookies. 

It was a swirled, sugary mess during the process!

And, of course, we didn't just want to leave the cookies plain - they needed graphics on them. So, Annabelle fired up her Cricut and cut out peace signs, happy faces, and other groovy objects.

We put the child's age on the front-and-center cookie. And our cake topper was an over-sized tie-dyed t-shirt with their name on it. (The name has been changed to protect anonymity in the photo below.)

With these out the door, it's time to pick a cake for our December project.