latest Birthday cake

My oldest son requested an ice cream cake for his 8th Birthday. He gave me free reign on how to decorate it, so I went with a spy theme. With a little help, I made a bunch of fondant spy tools that I was able to place on top at the last moment. Ice cream cakes are pretty easy really. I baked a plain vanilla cake, split it in half and filled the middle with ice cream. Old School Frozen Custard was having strawberry as the flavor of the day, so I had them do a Neapolitan style....3 stripes, 13 scoops in all. I frosted the cake with a very simple whipped cream icing, with a bunch of powdered sugar in it to stabilize it. I was pretty pleased with the result. I reminded me how fun and easy it is to work with fondant. It really is edible play dough.

All things crazy

It has been a busy summer. Hubby has worked non stop, we are in the process of trying to buy a house and the daily life of 3 small boys is a chaotic ride. Birthday season is now upon us, so I will hopefully update with cake photos very soon. My son has requested an ice cream cake. I am down with his....nothing better than ice cream and cake in one glorious creation. I have talked with the folks at Old School Frozen Custard, and they are going to fill up my cake pan with their seriously awesome ice cream. I'll have a layer of cake already in there, then I'll turn the whole thing out and frost it with a powered sugar infused whipped cream.

Isaac is very into spying right now, so I am going to attempt some spy like stuff with fondant. This could be tragic. Ice cream cakes don't lend themselves to intricate decoration as they melt, thus I must have stuff that I can just throw on the top. Results to follow!