Beyblade

A friend of mine asked me to make a Beyblade cake. It started just like that, with no other details. I started offering up ideas, which pretty much all got shot down. Finally, her son asked for Burn Fireblaze. I did what anyone else who has no clue about Beyblade toys would do, I hit the internet. If you want to see what the toy looks like, go ahead and do the same. I'm reluctant to put a picture on here for copyright purposes. Now, for those who don't know (like me), these are essentially small spinning tops with designs on top to differentiate them from one another. The purpose is to spin them in an arena and let them fight until one falls down. It's actually pretty fun to play, because we played it extensively at the party. I had the typical problem trying to turn something extremely complex into a cake design. The toy in question has clear orange plastic, metal sides, yellow and black paint, and has holes where you can see clear through it. Not conducive to a cake design. I did the best job I could with the design to try and mimic the toy. The toy also has fins on the sides, which I was able to partially replicate with the cake and fondant covering by putting extra icing in places to make the fins stick out a little. I tried making gray fondant to cover it, and it turned out purple at first because the black dye that I had was essentially a really dark purple. I was out of the super black dye that I prefer, so I had to use what was on hand since it had to be done the same day that I was covering it. I recovered from the purple by brushing the outside with additional black dye dissolved in ever clear. This makes a pretty good glaze, which I painted over the purple fondant. Then I took some pearl dust and dusted the whole think. Once that was done, it looked more like a polished metal than the awful purple that it was before. The top design was cut out freehand from looking at the picture. The cake was vanilla, and there was butter cream icing under the fondant. The birthday boy loved the cake design and said it was delicious. What more could I ask for.