Boofy Cakes

This past weekend we celebrated my cousin’s birthday! He is really into the Call of Duty video games and he wanted me to make him a Call of Duty cake! Last year I made him an Army themed cake that was camouflage with army men on it. So this year I wanted to make something more specifically Call of Duty.

I took this opportunity to try out a new recipe for a fondant substitute. I love the way fondant looks, but my family doesn’t care too much for the taste. I found this recipe online for Marshmallow Creme Fondant. I decided to try it out! Unfortunately it didn’t work out quite as well as I had hoped. It was a pain to make, incredibly sticky to roll out, and it tore while I tried covering my cake.

See? I had to patch the sagging torn fondant and it looked terrible. This fondant never really set or stiffened like normal fondant, so it continued to pull, sag and bubble. ARG! And I was so excited to try this new recipe! I should have known it sounded too good to be true. Luckily, the cake looked good enough, but I won’t be trying this one again.

I turned the cake around so that the damaged side was on the back. I used some regular fondant that I had left over from a previous cake to make the logo and name plate. To make the decorations I printed out the Call of Duty logo and cut it out of paper. Then I dyed my fondant a light grey and rolled it out. I placed my template on the fondant and used a small sharp knife to cut around the logo. Once I had the logo cut out, I used a soft brush to cover it in a fine metallic powder called luster dust. This gave it a metallic look. I buy soft make up brushes to cover large areas with powder. Then I used a small brush that I purchased from the painting supplies to dust a black powder to shade the top and bottom of the logo. These dusts and powders can be ordered online from cake decorating websites. They’re cheap and they last a long time since it doesn’t take much. Then I outlined the logo with a black food coloring marker. Wilton makes markers that are filled with food coloring that you can purchase at many craft stores. You can use these to draw on fondant, cookies, etc. Then I just placed it on to the cake! I was really happy with how the logo turned out that it made up for all the trouble I had covering the cake with the Marshmallow Creme Fondant.