"Camaro SS10"

Ok, so my son is a car nut. I knew he would want a car for his birthday cake, so we asked what kind of car he wanted. "Camaro SS10" was the answer. Not being a car nut, I had to look it up. I quickly realized that it was the same car as Bumblebee from the Transformers movie. My wife then asked what color he wanted before I could stop her. The reason being that I didn't want to have to do a red car. Getting red over that large of an area would be a pain. I could do it, but really didn't want to. Of course he immediately said, "red." I had to tell him no. We then settled on yellow and black. That was good, because I could find plenty of pictures of that! That's a car I could work with. The cake itself is a vanilla cake, not white. Good flavor. I put butter cream icing between the layers and covered the cake with it to make the fondant stick. It started as two layers that I baked in casserole dishes this time instead of cake pans. The size was about right, so I figured it would work out. This is the first time I've done a car in fondant. It's only the second time I've done a car, so hey, I figure I'm doing ok. The outside is the marshmallow fondant of course, with a few icing highlights. From start to finish, this took about 5 1/2 hours. That's from the time I started mixing up the batter until putting on the last detail. I'm going to start paying more attention to the time it takes, but because I'm curious how long some of the more elaborate ones take.

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