The wife and I really enjoy making fairly elaborate cakes for our children's birthday celebrations. We just completed our latest creation this past weekend. Our oldest son wanted to have a Lego Indiana Jones themed birthday. We were up for the challenge!
We perused what had already been done by other folks, found some great ideas and proceeded with our own rendition. We really liked the idea of a stepped pyramid design with some erosion and overgrowth.
Once we had the vague idea, we purchased some necessary goodies: yellow butter cake mixes, buttercream frosting, chocolate frosting, licorice, chocolate rocks, and other fun confections.
The wife baked four cake mixes worth of cakes (1/2 sheet, and about 3 more 12 inch squares). We cut, we stacked, we came up with this:
Frosting this tower was a chore, but we survived it. I airbrushed food coloring shadows, we embellished it with vines and other tropical looking plants (licorice and green tinted frosting), hit it with some sugars, and airbrushed again.
We ended up with a crystal skull at the top as Indy's treasure...mainly because it just sort of worked out the best. I sculpted the skull out of fondant and a blue icing gel, then hit it with the airbrush food coloring. We stuck on some Lego pieces, candles and called it complete:
This was a fun one. I'll have to post about some of the other cakes we have done (like the Melting Beaker Cake) in a future post.
Let them eat cake,
Rob
