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Hot Wheels Cake – First attempt with Fondant

Hot Wheel’s Race Track Cake!

This was my first attempt at using fondant and I’m not gonna lie it was a little tricky. I looked around on the internet to for some ideas and came up with this plan

I used rice krispie treats to mold the track and then cover it in fondant.

These are easily shaped into rectangles

I shaped the loop de loop first

and then added more track to to it…since I am not a perfectionist….it was kind of lumpy hehehe but hey a little boy is not going to care he will think it looks awesome right?

Then I covered the race track and loop de loop in orange fondant

I rolled it out into long skinny pieces

Then I covered all the rice krispy pieces. It was kind of funky on the circular loop de loop because it was not a smooth surface. (it looks more like a road from the Flintstones cartoon) But all in all I think it worked out pretty good. I think I made the The loop de loop a little bit too thick so next time I would make it thinner so it would stand up better.

For the light signal I simply used a rectangle of rice krispies and a skinny skewer

Melted some chocolate chips and added….

M&M’s for the little lights

My circle looks pretty smooth in this pic!

I think I was going to try and make a tire out of this small circle but I didn’t end up needing it.

Next I made a butter cream frosting and tinted it a fun color blue. I placed it on a round cardboard cake thingy (I can’t think of what they are called!) and covered the cardboard with black and white checkerboard scrapbook paper to mimic the flags at races.

Added some Hot Wheels cars on top and at the base of the cake, stacked up some oreo cookies at the back to represent tires and…

Plopped in some plastic checkerboard flags from the craft store and Voila! Hot Wheel’s Race Track Cake!

I made this for a cake auction and the little boys there were bugging their moms to buy it!

It was one of the most popular cakes there!

Karins Kottage

Welcome to Karins Kottage! There is always something fun going on! You would think after becoming an empty nester couple that our nest would be very quiet and empty but our Kottage nest is usually more full than what we started out with! You might find me hosting a birthday party or graduation party and a baby shower on the same weekend or a big outdoor get together with 25 of our friends and family in the backyard or maybe I might be in the kitchen trying out a new recipe for my hubby and I to grill on the BBQ for a quiet night for the two of us. I am passionate about entertaining and setting a beautiful table! I may or may not have an addiction to cloth napkins and fun salad plates oh and goblets too! I think I will always have a home decorating DIY project in the works as long as my hubby is on board with me haha. We have painted A LOT in the 6 homes we have owned in the 35 years that we have been married as well as re-done multiple pieces of furniture, added wall and ceiling treatments, replaced lights, bathroom fixtures and even tiled floors! I have sewn what seems like a million window treatments for our home as well as for family, made slipcovers, and duvets and even a formal dress or two!