Young Justice Themed Cake - July 2014

I made this Young Justice themed cake for my daughter Cara for her 15th birthday.  Young Justice is an animated television show that mainly focuses on the younger generation of superheroes.  The character on the right side of the cake (on the blue strip of fondant) is not from the show; it is a character that Cara made up based on herself named Bluefire.

More details and pictures to come... :)

(I created my animated name at this site.)

It's the Amazing Spider-Man... Cake! - May 2008

I made this 3D Spider-Man cake for Caleb's 6th birthday.  Caleb knew he wanted a Spider-Man party since his previous birthday (well actually a bit before that even).  He had picked Superman for his 5th birthday (see the It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman! post), but he already knew then that he wanted his next one to be Spider-Man.  :)

 

 

The shoulders and chest of Spider-Man are made of cake; Spider-Man's head is actually made from a hollow craft egg.  I was looking for a styrofoam egg, but I couldn't find one the right size.  I did find an egg the right size made out of a really thick cardboard type of material that worked though.  It kind of reminded me of a very hard paper mache type of thing.

 

underneath the icing

So, the part that is cake is made from two 6 inch round cakes and one 9 inch round cake.  (I found the basics of how to make the shape of this cake from a website called 'Coolest Homemade Birthday Cakes'.  It is basically just a site where people post cakes they've made to share with others and the cakes are separated into categories - Spider-Man, cats, etc.)  The two 6 inch round cakes I stacked to make the chest.  The 9 inch round cake I cut into quarters and stood them up on their sides to make the shoulders.  I used the part of the cake that I cut off when I leveled the 9 inch cake on the top of everything to make the transition to the head a little more natural.  I covered the craft egg with foil and 'chiseled' a hole in the bottom so I could insert a dowel [this is where I wished I had found a styrofoam egg :) ].  After the dowel was in the head I inserted the dowel into the cake so that Spider-Man would now have a head.  :)

I crumb coated the cake and the egg.  After that was set I covered everything with red buttercream icing except a small part of his arms and the sides of his chest, I iced there with blue buttercream.  I piped the outline of his eyes with white buttercream and filled them in.  I piped around his eyes with black buttercream icing and piped on all the webbing for his head.  After the head was finished I went on to piping the webbing for the chest and shoulders, outlining the blue sections, and drawing the spider symbol on Spider-Man's chest.  After I cleaned up the board at the base of the cake I piped a thin border around the base of the cake with black buttercream icing.  I thought it gave the cake a more clean and finished look.

Caleb was so excited about his Spider-Man cake, and it was a big hit at the party.  :)

After Caleb blew out his candles and while we were getting everything ready to cut the cake, my dad had loads of fun entertaining the kids [and himself :) ] by rotating Spider-Man's head from side to side and talking to the kids like it was Spider-Man talking.  The kids were cracking up!  I think it was just more from how he was moving the head 'looking' back and forth at the kids as they would say something than really anything he was actually making it say.  It was funny.  :)

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Spider-Man Cupcakes - April 2008

I made these Spider-Man cupcakes for Caleb to take to school for his birthday in Kindergarten.

After I baked and cooled the cupcakes I iced them with buttercream.  I used my piping bag to draw Spider-Man's head with buttercream icing tinted red.  I filled it in except for the part where his eyes would be, since they are white I just let the icing underneath show through.  Next I used buttercream icing tinted black to pipe on the webbing and outline the eyes.

Holy Cake and Ice Cream, Batman! - July 2007

I made these Robin themed cakes for my daughter, Cara's, 8th birthday.  Robin was her favorite superhero, so she had a Robin themed party.

Help!  Robin!  The building is on fire!  :)

For the building I baked a 15x15 cake and cut it into 9 sections.  Then I stacked the sections on top each other.  I iced the building with buttercream icing tinted gray.  I used yellow fondant for the windows and outlined everything to give it that cartoon/comic book look. 

The only non edible things on the cake are the metal wire that Robin's bat line is connected to (it runs through the cake and is attached to the underside of the board) and the bat line, which is just a piece of black elastic cording that I had leftover from making Robin masks for the kids at the party.

Robin is made out of fondant.  Yes, I know he looks a little LEGOish with the yellow skin and all.  I used some leftover yellow fondant from the windows to make him and then painted it with food coloring.  I think I thought painting over it with a little orange would make it look a little more peach and not so yellow, but it didn't work so well.  :)  My original plan was to have Joker on top of the building and a person that he captured and tied up, but I ran out of time (hence the yellow Robin :) ).  Just pretend Joker and the person he captured are inside the building.  :)

I made these Robin cookies to put in the kids' goodie bags.  I used a gingerbread boy cutter to get the shape.  After they baked I painted them with food coloring and/or a food coloring pen to make it look like Robin.  The cape is made out of yellow Fruit Roll-Up.  I had seen some Superman cookies like this online that someone had made back when I was looking for stuff for Caleb's Superman party (see the It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman! post).  I thought they were so cute.  Unfortunately, I didn't have time to make them for Caleb's party, but when Cara wanted a Robin party I realized they could work for Robin too.

It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman! - April 2007

These are the Superman themed cakes that I made for Caleb's 5th birthday.

The Superman logo cake is just a square cake that I cut to the shape of the logo and then iced with buttercream icing.

The way I got the pillowy look for the cloud cake is I baked a cake in a loaf pan and also baked cake in mini muffin tins.  I put a quick coat of buttercream icing the loaf cake, and then I stuck the mini muffins all over it and iced over the mini muffins with buttercream.  The Superman figure is just one of Caleb's Superman toys. 

underneath icing

Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel - April 2006

I made these cakes for my son, Caleb's, 4th birthday.

 

 

Everything on Batman is cake iced in buttercream except his nose and the ears on his cowl.  Those are made from Bugles covered in buttercream icing (you know the cone shaped chip snack).  The cake was baked in a batter bowl and then I built up the top of his head some more using some extra cake from the logo cake.

The Batman logo cake was just a 9x13 cake that I cut into an oval and decorated with buttercream.