Mercedes Benz S600 Birthday Cake

Before I agreed to make this 3D cake I scoured Pinterest and YouTube for a tutorial. Thankfully, I found this fantastic video for a Mercedes Benz Birthday Cake. Mr T found the specs and printed them off for me. I didn't do the cake exactly to scale to make sure there was more cake for the guests to enjoy.

First I made the tires so that they could dry out and harden. Then I made the cake board in the shape of the base similar to the video and covered it in tin foil.

For the cake I made a 9 x 13 vanilla cake. With that slab I roughly formed the shape of a car with chocolate ganache as the filling. The ganache worked like a glue to help keep the pieces together.

Once the shaped was formed I covered the entire cake in chocolate ganache and let that set .

The cake was covered in black fondant. Then I outlined all the windows and doors as per the specs. Added the mirrors, door handles and antenna. Using the clay extruder I made the grey outline for the tires, lights, front grill and Mercedes Benz symbol. The covered in silver dust.

To finish off the cake I used some black dye and alcohol to brush all over to make it shiny. I lightly brushed some silver dust over the windows to make it look like it was reflecting light. Lastly, I added the license plates.

Mr T delivered the cake down to Queens Quay for me while I tackled the kitchen clean up!

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