Off The Road Car Cake Food

HOW TO CARVE A CAKE THE EASY WAY

Steps:

• Prepare - Preheat the oven 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 - 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. Pro tip - freeze the cake for an hour or two. It helps to make fewer crumbs when you carve.
• 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.
• 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.Pro tip - for a big cake you may need to scale the print on a few pages.
• Carve - Using your template carve the cake as shown in the video. Cutting cakes, arrange the pieces layer them according to the template. Make sure to pay attention to the hood making sure it matches the design of your car. Round the front of the cake
• 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 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 chill until the frosting is firm. Pro tip - Don't forget to brush the layers with simple syrup before frosting.
• Fondant - Tint the fondant with the gel food color you want your car. Roll 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. Pro tip - I added the back and side fondant pieces first to create an embossed or bumped look then covered the cake in fondant.
• 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 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 - based on the car you chose you may need to make other elements. For example, race cars such as lightening Mcqueen need strips, logs - 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 use 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

RACETRACK SHEET CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Generously spray 13x9-inch pan with cooking spray.
• Make cake mix as directed on box, using water, butter and eggs. Pour batter into pan. Bake and cool as directed for 13x9-inch pan.
• Run knife around side of pan to loosen cake; remove cake from pan to serving plate or tray. In small bowl, mix 1 cup of the frosting and the black food color. On top of cake, spread black frosting in oval shape to look like racetrack. Sprinkle with sanding sugar.
• In medium bowl, mix remaining frosting and green food color. Spoon frosting into decorating bag fitted with large star tip (or grass tip #233). Pipe frosting on sides of cake and on top of cake around track to look like grass. Pipe "grassy area" in center of track. Outline border of track with chocolate candies. Arrange fruit-flavored candies and cars on track.