How to Carve a Cake the Easy Way
Calories: 27
Adjust Servings Here: 1 cake
Description
A car cake can make a great celebration cake for a boy or man of any age. Whether a six-year-old boy or a 60-year-old man, he sure loves his car. This simple, easy, and effortless car cake tutorial can be used to carve the car cake no matter which car brand or make you choose and no matter how big or small the size you need.
Ingredients
Chocolate sheet cake
- 4 cups (500 g) All-purpose flour
- 2 cups (400 g) Sugar
- 1½ Unsalted butter
- 5 large Eggs
- 3 Baking powder
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- ½ tsp Salt
- 2 tsp Vanilla extract
Ganache
- 18 oz (510 g) Chocolate bittersweet or semisweet
- 1 cup (240 ml) Heavy cream (38%)
- 2 tsp Vanilla extract
Plus
- 700 grams Marshmallow Fondant
Instructions
Chocolate sheet cake
- Prepare - Preheat the oven to 350°F/ 177°C/ Gas mark. Prepare a 15 x 17 sheet cake pan for baking - grease and line with parchment paper. If you don't have a sheet pan, you can also use 2 x 8-inch square tins.
- Dry ingredients - In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. And set aside.
- Wet ingredients - In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time until well combined. Use a spatula and scrape the sides of the bowl when necessary. Next, add the flour and milk mixture in three batches. Then, add the vanilla extract.
- Bake - Pour the batter into the prepared sheet pan or appropriate pans and bake on the middle rack for 50 to 55 minutes or until a skewer inserted inside the cake comes out clean.
Frosting
- In a large bowl (microwave-safe), combine the chocolate and heavy cream. Heat for a minute or more until all the chocolate is melted and smooth. Add the vanilla extract and combine well. Cover and leave to set in the refrigerator for a few hours overnight.
Decorate
- Template - Search and print the template of the car you plan to make from Google. Print it to the size you want the cake - actual size! Alternatively, you may like to draw the diagram of a fantasy car on paper and use it as a template.
- Carve - Using your template, carve the cake as shown in the video. When cutting cakes, arrange the pieces and layer them according to the template. Make sure to pay attention to the hood and make sure it matches the design of your car.
- Ganache - Once you have carved the shape, frost the cake with frosting between layers and crumb coat the cake with a thin layer of frosting. Place the cake in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. Then, add more frosting and frost the truck, making sure you have nice square corners. Smooth the cake with a flexible smoother and let it chill until the frosting is firm.
- Fondant - Tint the fondant with the gel food color you want your car. Roll the fondant and cover the whole cake. Cut excess fondant from around the cake. I used white fondant and airbrushed it yellow, but it's easier to use a pre-colored fondant.Use a cake smoother to smooth and create square corners around the cake.
Complete the design
- Use your master template as a guide. Cut additional templates to the appropriate size and use them to cut fondant in the color and size of the car. Outline the windows and doors, then add the extra fondant cutouts. I used black fondant for the front and back glass, doors, wheels, etc.
- Bumpers - I also added the front and back elements like bumpers and racing stripes. I used silver luster dust for a metallic look.
- Headlights - Use black or white fondant and then paint with silver metallic luster dust with alcohol. You can also use colorful candy for
- Wheels - You can use silicone molds for car wheels or make them from scratch, as I did in my tutorial for a fire truck cake. Today, I used my son's car wheel as a model and created my own silicone mold. Once the mold was ready, I filled it with black fondant and added the rest of the details accordingly.
- Extra elements —Depending on the car you choose, you may need to make other elements. For example, race cars like Lightning McQueen need strips, logs, and Rustezes, which are easier to make with edible prints.
- A fondant board - Is a great way to add more elements and dimensions to your car. I used the cake board to create a road. For sports cars, you may like to make a racing track on the cake board. Also, you can use cake scraps to create more elements on the cake board, such as a slope or road.
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