american car cake

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• published: 30 May 2014
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This easy, great looking cake is a pleasure and fun to make. Great for father's day, boys parties, birthdays, American independence day celebration or for fans of cars. Ingredients: 1. 1 box of butter cake mix (or use any of your choice) 2. Vanilla frosting 3. 1 box of ready-to-roll icing or use fondant 4. Red and blue liquid food coloring (or use red and blue gel food coloring and diluted with water, clear vanilla extract or clear vodka) 5. Black and white gel food coloring "Wilton" or "Americolor" 6. Edible confetti pastel stars, select white color stars only 7. Brushes, toothpicks Method: 1. Preheat oven to 180C (or according to instruction on the cake box). Grease and line with baking paper loaf tin about 10cm x 20cm (4inch x 8inch); if your loaf tin is a little smaller or bigger it does not effect design - go ahead and use it. 2. Mix cake according to instruction on the cake box. Pour into prepared loaf tin and bake it according instructions on the cake box. When it baked, let cool. 3. With serrated knife, slice off half of cake to about 1,5cm (0.59inch) at a less acute angle for front of car; trim other side to more round shape of American mustang car. Check where you will make the tires and leave that parts untrimmed, then trim rest of bottom cake under small angle of about 45 degrees to make look like bottom of car (no need to trim underneath, just outside). When you finish all the trimmings and happy with design, apply vanilla frosting all over cake and apply small amount under bottom of cake too. 4. Take ready-to-roll icing or fondant from the packet and knead on working surface sprinkled with powdered icing sugar until it soften and became manageable. Roll into large shape size bigger then your cake, turning often to prevent stick to the working surface; then transfer on top of cake. Apply small amount of powdered icing sugar on your hands and shape the cake starting from top. Trim away extra of fondant far away first, then bring close to the cake, leave enough on sides to tuck under the cake. Use flat knife to press fondant underneath to the cake. Shape the tires. 5. Draw design of your car on top of cake with toothpick or use back of brush. Apply blue liquid food coloring for front of car and place 11 rows of white stars while color still wet, starting first row in front of car from 5 stars, then 4 stars and continue again 5 stars, then 4 until finish in total will be 11 rows. Then mix small amount of black and white gel food coloring to create grey color and apply for windows and all areas need to be colored. Apply red liquid food coloring to create red lines. Apply small amount of black gel food coloring to create tires, use grey color for inside tires. Outline grey bits of car with very small brush, use dark grey color for it or black color. To make cake more realistic look use toothpick and gently press on outlined areas.