Mountain Bike Cake

For this cake I was requested to make a yellow mountain bike and the flavour was to be chocolate. This was an 8" two layer chocolate cake with chocolate filling. To this day I still cannot draw a bike from memory. The frame always looks slightly off. Thankfully I didn't have to rely on my memory and was able to print off a clip art drawing to use as my guide.

Thank goodness for my clay extruder to do the bike wheels and frame. You have to use fresh fondant. If it's even slightly dried out it becomes virtually impossible to twist it out of the extruder. After two tries with the yellow I broke down and made some fresh yellow fondant and it came out like butter!

I made the trees out of three different shades of green using my small oval cutters.

For the little rocks I had three different shades of grey and rolled up tiny little stones or rocks.

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