I'm boycotting Wal-Mart's Bakery for birthday cakes. This was a hard decision for me. I dearly love the icing but, lately, I'm not too impressed with their artistic vision. I admit to not having any cake decorating skills but *I* do not work in a bakery decorating cakes!! It doesn't take much skill to stick a cheap plastic toy on top of a sheet cake!!
And so, for this weeks Make It From Scratch, I submit this not really made from scratch, but decorated at home, Godzilla birthday cake. I used a cake mix and canned frosting. BUT, I decorated it myself (as if you can't tell from the picture LOL).
It all started when Ryan requested a Godzilla cake for his 9th birthday. I'd already decided I was not buying any more $25 bakery cakes. I googled Godzilla birthday cake and came up with two ideas. One was far, far beyond my capabilities but I decided to tackle this skyscraper. I baked two cakes and cut them in graduated square shapes. I stacked the cakes and iced the tower, to the best of my limited abilities, to look like a skyscraper. Then I rammed Godzilla into the side of the cake so he could climb the building. It came out a little more "art deco" than I intended but Ryan loved it.
An added bonus was the cost savings. Instead of $25, I spent $7 on cake mix and icing, including a fancy can of spray icing to do the windows. The Godzilla was another $8 but that's a toy Ryan will play with for a long time, unlike those cheap cake kits you get at the bakery. Even including the toy, I spent $10 LESS than the bakery!
Now, if I could just get some of that bakery icing. Mmmmmm.
3 comments:
Congratulations on your first cake. I am fortunate that for the last 3 years, my mom has made my kid's birthday cakes. This year she couldn't make them, but I was fortunate because my daughter wanted Dora and Diego cupcakes instead of a cake. That turned out pretty well, so I got up enough courage to try a birthday cake for my hubby this week. It turned out really good. I used a box cake mix, but made my own icing. It tastes SO MUCH BETTER than a store bought cake. It cost me less than $5 to make and the cake is so moist and fresh.
Thanks for participating in the Make it from Scratch carnival.
Karen
www.balanceindiet.com
Mixes are still made from scratch compared to buying it made for you! That cake looks fun! Way to go!
Rats, this is one of the HowTos I'm hoping to do one day... Well, you can just consider it a form of flattery when I copy you :-) To make the forms of our bday cakes I cut paper first. Circles for circle cakes, rectangles for sheet cakes and then cut them up and tape them together until I get the design I want. This year I took two circle cakes and made a turtle :-)
You did a great! job! I love your cake!! I know your son was proud. It's kinda fun, too, isn't it?
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