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<\/a><\/p>\nAfter some searching, I found the original blog<\/a> that posted it. It seemed simple enough so I thought I would try it.<\/p>\n Now, if this really was a crafting blog I would have taken step by step pictures of how I did it. But this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t and I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. So I’ll just tell you… you can skip this part if you like, just scroll down to the picture…<\/p>\n The cake itself was just yellow cake (box mix ::gasp!::) with some dye added (you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see later), and homemade chocolate butter-cream frosting (which I ate more of that day than I care to admit). The dirt is crush chocolate cookie.<\/p>\n I have not worked with fondant before, so I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about to buy a ton of it and dye it, but I also wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about to invest in a giant thing of pre-colored orange fondant either. Thankfully, Wilson makes this kit with orange, yellow, pink, and purple fondant. Options to do something else at some point but small and cheap enough that if I wasted it, it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a big deal. Perfect! Also, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to invest in fondant tools for what could be a one-time thing either, especially with a small kitchen! So I used what I had. I rolled it out with a rolling pin covered in plastic wrap to prevent sticking. The cones were my favorite thing over all, SO CUTE! I used a lego block to etch the lines for the square bottom to the cones, then just cut those with a butter knife. I shaped the cone part by hand.<\/p>\n After I put those on with the toy (found on Amazon) and the dirt pile, I felt it was missing something. I came up with the traffic signs spelling his name. The fondant I brought came with yellow, remember? How to cut them out? I have a set of salt and pepper shakers from the 99 cent store from when Matt and I first were married. It was the perfect shape! I just used the lid to cut out the shapes. I had some black dye leftover so I colored some store-bought white icing I had and used that to pipe his name on to the signs.<\/p>\n And here is my finished cake! Now for the surprise!<\/p>\n Everyone thought the cake was adorable as it was, but there was one more thing I was very anxious about. You see, I found something out in that original blog post, an added feature you couldn’t see in the photo. And by the very nature of what it was, I would have no idea if it worked until everyone else did. Thankfully, when Crystal cut into the cake, this is what everyone saw!<\/p>\n Caution tape!<\/p>\n It worked perfectly!!! Now this does make it hard to serve as it loses it integrity, but it looked so fun! So there was my first big project! Adorable and quite tasty!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are seasons to life and I am apparently in one of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153forced creativity.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I say that tongue in cheek, no one is holding a gun to my head and making me be creative. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more that situations are arising that are requiring or allowing me to express creativity. So the next several posts I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[106,107,104,918,105,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nYou can read the tutorial here<\/a> on how to do it, it actually is quite easy. I made one mistake early on though, because I was making caution tape, I thought yellow and chocolate cake would be best. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work because cakes do not all bake the same way as far as moisture and texture. The chocolate was denser and stickier than the yellow cake and caused it to fall apart. You have to use the same mix for both cake layers and just dye them which is what I ended up doing. Also, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t panic if your circle breaks in the process, frosting fixes quite a bit and no one will know once it is cut!<\/p>\n