Cake: Kim's Bachelorette Party

After I completed Kim's bridal shower cake I told Scott, I don't think I want to make any more for awhile, so I might skip making Kim's bachelorette cake and just go buy one.  Well, a day later, I was ready to go at it again.  Maybe because I really wanted to see if I could do a certain design and I knew it didn't have brown in it.  Man, that brown.  I wanted to make this cake one layer higher than my previous two cakes and I didn't have the utmost confidence in having a three layer "cake", so I decided to, you guessed it (or not) use Rice Crispie treats for the bottom.  A sturdy, yet fun surprise of a layer to have as the base of the cake.  I was going for sort of a petal/skirt situation with a belt like thing on top.  I wanted to cover the top with something as there were some imperfections in the fondant so I impulsively carefully decided to start adding some zebra stripes and they looked pretty good!

So, it started out all alone like this:

Then, after the cakes were baked, she got a bit of a crumb coating and looked like this:

Then, voila!  She all of a sudden looked like this!  A little rocky but I eventually smoothed out some of the jaggedy edges:

 A shot of the zebra action:

Here is her backside:

And of course a little side pose:

Don't look too closely as there are a ton of imperfections, but everyone thought the cake looked great.  Some asked us where we bought it.  And I got many many compliments on how it tasted so I would say it was a success!  I don't really take any credit for taste as all I have to do is dump some things in a bowl, mix, and bake.  Betty Crocker, you did it again.  For those curious, it costs less than $10 including everything (frosting, cake, fondant, etc.) to make this cake and about 3-4 hours of time baking, frosting, fondant rolling, and designing. If I would have tried to buy one like this, I would have had to pay at least three times as much.  I feel like I am getting a little better each time.  It was a really fun design I wanted to try and looked absolutely nothing like my inspiration cake, but it turned out alright nonetheless!  Still planning to make Nolan's cake so we will see how that goes!