Saturday, February 5, 2011

Super Mario Bros. Cake

This is a Super Mario Bros. cake for my favorite 7 year old chickadee!  It is 3 tiers, 14", 10" and 6", and is frosted in buttercream icing with fondant accents and plastic character figures.  The mushrooms are hand sculpted from marshmallow fondant.  The tunnel entrance on top of the cake is a heavy-duty paper tube covered in mmf.  The #7 is a candle.  It is a surprise for the birthday girl... if you see it before she does, try not to rub it in!  :o)  For more pictures, click below.

BTW, I made approximately 18 cups of buttercream icing for this cake... it took nearly an entire 1oz. container of Sky Blue (wilton brand) icing color to achieve this shade of blue.

7 comments:

  1. Amanda VittitowFebruary 5, 2011 at 10:52 PM

    I love reading and looking at your blog b/c you do such a GREAT job with your cakes!!!! I love this Mario cake--

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  2. KristenFebruary 6, 2011 at 10:50 AM

    Thank you so much!!

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  3. ButterflySeptember 13, 2011 at 2:47 PM

    MY 4 year old Autistic son loves Mario, his birthday is in October and I took this picture to a local cake shop and it would cost about 300 dollars to do! So we are getting a cake sheet, I might attempt to do something on my own but the fondant scares me! You do an amazing job!

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  4. KristenJanuary 12, 2012 at 10:00 PM

    Thank you so much! Fondant is a lot of fun to work with -- I actually prefer using it to decorate cakes :)

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  5. UnknownSeptember 1, 2012 at 7:21 PM

    hi i love this cake,were did you buy the cake toppers?

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  6. UnknownSeptember 1, 2012 at 7:22 PM

    hi i love this cake. were did you buy the cake toppers ?

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  7. KristenSeptember 1, 2012 at 10:54 PM

    They were purchased at Target and I have seen similar ones at Toys R Us.

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