Spacie Stacie: Bikini Cake Pics

BIKINI GIRL

OK, so I've been told (advised???) that this girl has one skinny waist and huge honkers. Hubby thinks next time I should give her a thicker waist.

Well, anyway... we'll start with "my canvas". Most artists use canvas board. I use cakes.

MY CANVAS

Here it is! I have always used Pillsbury cake mixes. Everyone has always commented that they're so good they thought I had some homemade secret recipe of some sort. Nope. ;-)

MY CAKEBOARD

I make my own buttercream frosting and dye it with paste colors. For this bikini girl cake, it was my first time playing with fondant icing, so I did not make that frosting, although I will teach myself how. For starters, I thought it best to start with ready made. The white frosting here is NOT made with any butter. To get the "whitest" white frosting you should not use butter OR brown vanilla, you should use clear vanilla. The recipe is NOT a secret either: I use Wilton's recipe. Watch out for crumbs!!! They are a cake decorator's worst nightmare, especially with a brown cake.

SKY AND SAND

Brown sugar is "sand" and is very fun for any beach-themed cake. You can also take a pile of cookies and attach them together with frosting to make sand castles. No sand castles here. I did not have enough of blue fondant to cover the whole sky but that is OK because I planned on adding green trees. I thought of this cake while laying in my tanning bed and couldn't wait to get home to do it. LOL

BIKINIS NEED BOOBS

And here we have them. I have a "boob cake pan" bought from a local naughty store. I recently did a boob cake for a girl's boyfriend and I had used for the first time a butter cake recipe that called for "real butter" instead of vegetable oil. She reported back to me that it was out of this world, so I decided to try it (eat it) myself. The "waist" is from a second boob cake I had done (cut in half). The boob cake pans makes two cakes and I was planning to do something else with the second one but then when I suddenly thought of this cake while tanning, I figured the gal would need a midsection and this would be the best way of providing it.

FROSTED BOOBS

Now here is where I made a little mistake and is one of the reasons for my rant on "PLANNING" and "PERFECTION". I am a perfectionist. The problem with this cake here is that I frosted the boobs without realizing they were too far off to the right. They were not centered. I did TRY and pick them up and moving them but it wasn't going to work. TOO LATE. So, what to do?

As much as I try to make it seem like this is new to me, those who know me know better! I have been doing cakes since my kids were babies. My kids are now 17, 20, and 23.

EVERY CAKE CAN BE RESCUED WITH FROSTING! I call it "cake surgery" and I am awesome with it. I had already planned to do trees. So now one of those huge tall trees would now run alongside to the left. The brown frosting is not homemade. Darker colors are very hard to create. The brown tree trunk frosting is ready made. I piped it out using the reverse side of the basket weave tip which is flat.

Now, the green frosting...LOL Remember, I mentioned that I had ready made fondant frosting? The package came with the four primary colors: red, yellow, blue, and green. I had envisioned red and yellow: bikini, blue: sky/water, green: trees. I opened up the package of fondant and each color was wrapped in silver foil with a sticker on each one indicating what color it was except for the fourth package. The others were stickered with "yellow", "red", and "blue", so I assumed the unstickered one would be the assumed "green" (what a way to save money on labels? Let them deduce that its gotta be the green one...)

NOOOOOOOOOO, I opened it and it was YELLOW! So, naturally I opened up the package marked "yellow" thinking "Maybe its really green?" NOOOOOOOO so I now had two yellows and no green and I'm about to provide tree leaves to my already piped tree trunks!!!!!

WHO has green frosting in their possession at any given moment?

ha ha

ME!

Yes, I just happened to have a bit left over from a recent cake I did. I am a pack rat and I hate throwing things away and this is one of those instances that keep me holding onto things I have no idea how I'm ever going to use. I had put that green frosting in the fridge with no clear idea on how I would ever have any use for it and here was my answer: I needed trees (and grass!)

The only thing I would have done differently is pipe the grass with the hair/grass tip. I just frosted it on flat at the bottom.

BIKINI FINISHED

So, if you're an experienced food blog reader, you're going between the above picture and the one above it going, "WTH, she's missing pics!!!"

LOL

Yes, I was so thrown off with my fondant package not including green and recovering from it that when I laid out the yellow and red fondant I forgot to take pics!

It was kind of good that I had two packages of the yellow because I would have had to roll it really thin to get enough for both sides. I made the circles using the opposite end of a cake tip. So I cut the yellow circles out with the cake tip then replaced it with a red circle.