After watching the premier of the new season of Ace of Cakes on Food Network last week, Adam proposed that we try to sculpt and ice a cake ourselves. Not having ever done this before, I was a bit skeptical of what we would be able to create. He came up with doing a watermelon…like an entire watermelon…I thought we could just start with slices and build up to the whole watermelon. So we set out Friday night with making the cakes. While I wanted to make it from scratch, since we were undertaking the sculpting and icing and everything, Adam convinced me to use a mix and bought icing just to see how it turned out this first time and then next time I could make it from scratch. I’m glad he protested because this ended up being a bigger project than we thought, but it was so fun! I have chronicled all the steps below. I hope you enjoy! I think it turned out pretty good for our first try!!
We iced a crumb coat so that no crumbs got into the colored icing. (sorry the pic got deleted)
That’s super cute!!
that’s adorable. Now I want to figure out a way to make little mini watermelon cakes. š
What a fun summer cake! I think its great both of you tackled it… I enjoy working with my husband in the kitchen too š
Too cute!
Very cool! The colors are so vibrant, it looks great! I love that you did it with your husband, mine would never decorate cakes with me!