Lights! Camera! Action!

I did it!  My first, real cake order that was going to someone not in my "inner" circle, therefore making it a real cake order.  A few weeks ago a lady who is moving to Saudi Arabia with us saw a picture of one of my cakes on Facebook and asked if I would be willing to make a cake for her daughter's 9th birthday.  I said yes, of course, just so that I could practice with cake decorating.  She told me their party was going to be at the movies and she wanted to know if I could make a cake in the shape of a popcorn container.  I did some research and decided that I would use her popcorn container idea as the cake topper and make a cake that had edible pieces surrounding it.   Here is what it looked like!!!

 

I took a class on fondant and gumpaste about a month ago and learned how to make homemade fondant which tastes 10X better than the store bought kind in a box (not to be confused with Satin Ice's brand in the containers).  Anyways, I drew out my pieces and began working on them early in the week so they would have plenty of time to dry by Friday.  The movie ticket, reel, and clapper are 100% fondant.  I used rice krispie treats as the structure for the popcorn container and sealed it with royal icing (to keep the RKT from shifting), gave it a layer of butter cream, then covered it in white fondant and added the red stripes.  The popcorn was miniature marshmallows cut up and sprayed with yellow icing coloring called color mist.  

Since the birthday girl was turning 9, I tried "diva-ing" the cake up with a red carpet and made miniature fondant balls to look like lights.  The border of the cake had alternating colored stars and bigger stars were put on the side of the cake! It took some time to cut out each one of these pieces, but it was worth it! The little girls face was PRICELESS!!   

Now, I can't go through this post without mentioning that Brooks helped with this cake, just like he helps with all my other cakes.  Brooks, being an engineer, has an eye for straight lines, the ability to calculate ratios,  determine proportion sizes, and pays very, very, very close attention to the small details.  Therefore, when it was time to place the popcorn label on the front of the container, he got that job!!!  He did an awesome job measuring out the distance from the stripes to the circular label, did some cutting, then gluing (with food safe glue of course) and VOILA... it turned out perfect!!  I even let Brooks ice the edges of my cakes because he can get them to be exact angles and smooth as can be. He is really talented with it!  Thanks babe for all your help!  I couldn't have done it with out you and thanks for being so understanding that the house wasn't cleaned, didn't get picked up, and no laundry was done all week.  I appreciate you more than you know!

Heads up: my next cake is due April 10th and it's for a crawfish boil.  I can't wait to show you what's happening with that cake.