If you are not familiar with Skylanders, it is a game where you have this little figures that you put on a base that connects up to a game system. When you put a character on the base, you get to play that character in the game. It's been a huge hit since Christmas. You almost can't find these things in the store at all.
After working on ideas for a while, my son decided he wanted one of the characters called Ghost Roaster. Now, I could either to the character laying down, or use an idea that I had been wanting to try for a while. Originally, my wife and I came up with this idea for a Ben 10 cake. I won't explain who that is if you don't know. The idea is to take a character like this and copy it onto a transparency so that it looks like a projection coming out of the cake. That's exactly what I did here.
I made the base out of cake and covered it with a thin layer of fondant. Now, I only had a couple of hours to do this, so it is certainly not my best work. Normally, it would look more like the stone it is supposed to be made out of. I was pressed for time because we had a really busy week and lots to do to prepare for the party.
Once the base cake was done, I took a glob of the fondant and formed it into the base for the figure. I then took the transparency and bent is slightly before pushing it into the fondant base it had. It stood up perfectly. My son was happy with it, though I was a bit disappointed. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so wasn't totally thrilled with this one.
THAT IS AWESOME! I would love to know how to do that transparency! Great idea!! :)
ReplyDeleteThe transparency is easy. All you have to do is take an image and photocopy it onto transparency paper. Then, cut it out and DONE! It's a really cool effect and pretty cheap to do. It gave it that little creepy touch it needed.
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