so, i had an official welcome into the Cavaliere family with an invite to Gregg's brother and sister-in-laws' house in Hillsborough for Thanksgiving. for one of only 2 times out of 26, i'd be spending Thanksgiving away from my family in Greensburg, PA...
SO...with that, i started asking some questions about Gregg's two nieces, Maddie and Jackie. since Jackie's 12th birthday was coming up (it was this past Sunday, Nov. 23rd), we recieved an email from Rose, Gregg's sister-in-law about Jackie's latest interest: robots!
SO, we had the idea to make a robot cake for Jackie's birthday and bring it with us to New Jersey. and that's what I did...I make a robot cake. I'm kind of proud of how it turned out.
making the cake involved making a yellow and chocolate box cake, using a 9x13 pan for the yellow cake, and then a 9" sqaure, a small 4" round, and a dome cake out of the chocolate cake.
after baking, i used the chocolate dome cake for the head, a portion of the 9x13 yellow for his chest/body, the 9" square for his legs, pieces of the rest of the yellow for his arms and feet, and the small 4" circle cut in half for his shoulders.
the gray icing, (mixed white icing with Wilson food coloring paste, NOT food coloring...because it's less liquidy and therefore affects the icing's viscosity less) was made from adding red, green, blue, a little pink, and then a little more green...
the rivets on the edge of the robot are chocolate chips turned upside down.
the buttons and eyebrows are M&Ms...the mouth and outlining is just black gel icing.
the cake was a huge accomplishment:
and this is Jackie's reaction to the cake...we had a lot of fun!
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