Barney in The Wiggles' Car Cake

It was such a coincidence that I received 3 orders for a 3D car cake for the past 2 months. Even before I posted my 1st Lightning McQueen Car for Evelyn in August, I've already received an advance order from Cavy for the Wiggles car, and also the BMW car from Zima.  Looks like a car themed cake is very popular for boys/guys' birthday. I can now venture into car making only...ha!..:D

Who doesn't know The Wiggles? That's ME! Not until I got to do this..LOL.. That's what I love about doing thematic novelty cakes. I learnt something new each time I need to do a research on the specific theme and that makes life more interesting but of course more challenging. There's so many versions of The Wiggles Cake at the search engine. Cavy's idea was to have her kid's favourite Barney figurine to be seated in The Wiggles car and the 'Happy Birthday' wordings to be placed on the top front of the car.

So this is how it came about. I added more presents on the passenger seat to make it looked like this happy Barney is bringing presents especially for Jovan. On top of that, I added the plastic balloons to compliment the theme and to make it look more colourful and cheerful.

Red, yellow, purple, and blue are the main colours incorporated in The Wiggles theme. Check this out to know them better..:)

Front close-up view.

                          

The rear view.

The Barney figurine and all other decorations were made of fondant/edible gumpaste except for the plastic balloons, windscreen and spotlights.

Thanks Cavy for your continuous support and hope you're satisfied with the cake. Happy 1st Birthday to Jovan. He's such a cute boy and soon-to-be a handsome young man. :)

BMW Convertible Car Cake

Don't we all wish to drive or own a BMW one day? I do...but at the mean time, having the chance to produce this BMW car cake is already a dream came through for me..LOL :P This is my very first BMW and my 2nd fondant 3D car cake. This project took me one whole day just on decorations. 3 hours before the delivery time I was only 80% done on the car and another 25pcs of cupcakes to decorate. Knowing that I may not finish on time, I called up the customer to ask for an extension of another half an hour. Luckily, she was OK with it. I felt bad about it for not being able to deliver on that specific time. I was really in a rush and underestimate the time needed for this cake. Nevertheless, I'm so glad that the whole thing turn into a piece.

Zima forwarded a few pics from the net for my reference. She wanted a BMW convertible car cake with two teddy bears sitting in the car. I was like OMG! Now how do I do that? My imaginations started to run wild and our discussions started over exchanging emails and YM. My main reference was from Elitecakesdesign Australia but I made my own changes to give it a ME touch. Don't ask me what model or series of BMW this is coz I have no idea...ha! :P

                                      Two loving couple teddies went for a ride in the most comfortable car..

The details of the rims were made of an edible image. Couldn't have done the exact with just fondant.

                Let's just say the model of the car is year 2010 ZOOL24 series white  BMW convertible car. :)

And the male teddy bear started to feel romantic by putting his hands on to the female teddy's shoulder.. LOL :P

Oh and those diamond spotlights are non edible. I did inform the customer to remove it before consumption.

  Say Hi there teddies..:D . Forever Friends teddy bears were made out of fondant/gumpaste, hand moulded.

Besides the car cake, there were another 24 pcs of edible image cupcakes to go along. Due to privacy, I have to sensor the images and show only the remaining images which were the birthday boy's favourites and wish list. The flavour for the car cake was chocolate moist cake filled with chocolate ganache, while the cupcakes were butter with creamcheese cupcakes.

Zima smsed me to tell me that the cake was very pretty, cute and delicious and she was very satisfied with it. Thanks so much Zima. I'm more happier when you're happy.:) See you next time. :)



Lightning McQueen Car Cake

Eventhough I'm left with no maid to help out with the washing and cleaning up, I can't help but happily say yes to my dear friend who had in advance informed me that she will be ordering a cake from me. It was for her husband and nephew's birthday. I first jumped at the idea of a 3D car cake. A cake that needs carving and creativity in getting the right shape and curve...ha..:)  Furthermore, the car has to be decorated in fondant, which is more complex and difficult compared to just piping with buttercream. Oh well, never try never know. I was then eager to try out this 3D McQueen design after much inspired by so many pictures at flickers.. Thanks to the Internet and all the successors who has done it before.

I think he has got a sweet smile there, don't you think so? :P Oops..look at those crushed cones, he's not a careful driver there..hehe.. And don't worry, those sand were made from crushed digestive biscuits. Rise crispies and chocolate candies stone-like for decoration purposes.

Here goes the driver, Mr. Wesley one of the birthday boy.. not sure how old he is though..:)

Here's little Keith at the passenger seat. He is turning 4.

Front logo with their names embossed and the chick spotlights..

Tadaaa....Thirteen accompanying cupcakes to go with McQueen. I supplied a number '4' candle for Keith but no age mentioned for Wesley as requested. According to Eve, the main star for the party was Keith.:)

Another little blue racing car leading the race :)

Like Evelyn said, everyone was impressed and surprised with the 2 in 1 birthday cake. Viewing from the right hand side, it's Wesley's birthday cake.

Turn it around and voila..!.. it's Keith's birthday cake..... :)

Evelyn told me that her nephews and nieces' 1st reaction when they saw the cake was they shouted "McQueen!" then her nephew took out his McQueen CD and started making comparisons...haha...glad he could recognised it in the 1st place...:)

The back view of the cake.  

                         

My Hubby commented that the sport rims should be bigger. I agreed. That's because I didn't expect that the car cake would be this big as I have made the sport rims days in advance to let it dry hard, before I can imagine how the actual cake would turn out. Will take note on that the next time. By the way, the flavour of the cake and cupcakes was brown sugar vanilla butter cake. The cake weighed almost 2kg. Size 10"x5".

Thanks Eve for the order. I'm so glad we made it *wink* :)

All packed and ready to go...vrrooommm..........