Motorcycle

I've realized there is an issue with some of the motorcycles out there. They look like scooters when you see them from the right angle. A friend asked me to make a motorcycle cake for a friend of theirs. I figured it would be a fun challenge. I got the pictures of the bike in question, and we talked it out. We figured the front view would be the easiest to put into cake form. The cake itself was chocolate with chocolate buttercream covered with marshmallow fondant.

As I started working this, I carved out the shape needed and then started covering. First I put on a thin layer of gray fondant to act as the metal surfaces. Then I layered on the red and black where needed. Finally, the headlight was added. The headlight details are simply painted on with thinned cake dye.

Once it was put together, I realized just how much this thing looked like a scooter. I wasn't happy with it, but it was too late to do too much about it. I didn't hear any complaints, but I was personally disappointed that it didn't look cooler than it did. In retrospect, I would have preferred to go with a side shot.