This cake was for my co-worker's son 19th birthday. He's in school to become a firefighter. Underneath the black fondant is the Perfect Chocolate Cake. For the ladder and fire hydrant I piped out royal icing. Originally the cake was going to be picked up from my place but I procrastinated getting started and instead delivered it up to Aurora so I wasn't on a time crunch. I took Mr. T and Miss E out to the Lone Star restaurant for dinner for making the trek up with me.
For this "cake" I made two dozen vanilla cupcakes and arranged them on the cake board in the shape of the rainbow and clouds. To make sure the cupcakes didn't move I added a dab of icing on the bottom of each cupcake. It's not that often that I get to dye icing, or six different colours at once. You can get a really good bicep workout, Miss E was kind enough to lend her figurines as models for the picture. The clouds piped out perfectly. The rainbow was a little more difficult. Next time I would put a base coat on the cupcakes to help keep the top coat more level and easier to pipe over.
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