Simply Delightful Cakes

Last week I had the pleasure of making a cake for a co-worker. Her son is a huge Marvel fanatic! Without him knowing, she had him tell her his top 5 favorite superheros. They were Iron Man, Captain America, Scarlet Witch, Ant-Man, and Dead Pool. I had only heard of the first two... But low and behold, Ant-Man and Dead Pool sections turned out to be my favorites.   His favorite was the Ant-Man section.  He and his mom were also blown away with the Dead Pool section too. She had no idea who he was either.  Scarlet Witch's cape gave me some problems, but I made it work. Her section was the hardest to come up with because she doesn't have any weapons - just her "M" looking face mask as one of her signatures. I was sure to add that, but opted for adding her cape instead of her little red corset outfit.  Who knew making one superhero cake would lead me to make two more? Just can't get enough of those heros!

Why oh why do I wait until 10pm the night before to start working on decorating cakes? I need to squash this cycle! Anyways, my son turned 5 last month and had a super hero cake at his pool party. I was delighted how well it went over with everyone, especially the moms there! I shouldn't have been surprised when one of them asked me to make her son's cake, but I was surprised because he also wanted super heroes!  I don't normally make rectangular cakes, but thought this would be a good time to try one out - this way it wouldn't look exactly like my son's.   I showed the birthday boy and his mom the sketch I drew up, and he was SO EXCITED! "That's the coolest cake ever!" That's why I do this. The excitement on their faces makes it all worth it! He then proceeded to point out each of the super heroes on the sketch. "There's Superman, and the Hulk, and that one is Captain America, and there's that green guy. I don't know his...

I shouldn't choose favorites, but this is BY FAR my favorite cake that I've done yet - simply because I didn't have any problems! The cakes came out of their pans perfectly and their edges weren't crispy, the fondant didn't give me any grief, and there was no cursing what-so-ever!   Last year my little guy was in love with Ninja Turtles, and he still is (probably more so this year) but he opted to have superheros on his cake instead - and a Ninja Turtle.   Since it was his 5th birthday, I divided the cake into five sections and let him pick the superheros to be on it. He was so confused to how it was going to look so I drew it out the best I could. I need to do that more often! I referenced it over and over during the decorating process! The only thing I'm not so pleased about is the Spiderman portion - mostly because by the time I made /it to piping on the spider, the black dye was separating itself from the frosting making it turn out more gray th...