Day-Dream Cakes: 2nd Nephew

While I've done all of my first nephew's birthday cakes, I have only done a few of my 2nd nephew's. My 2nd nephew's mom married my brother and became part of our family.

Grave Digger

First of all my 2nd nephew's birthday is July so it is extremely hot and we do not own an air conditioner. My butter cream is always extremely stubborn and I have to go between piping the icing on the cake for a few minutes, to putting the bag of icing in the freezer for a few minutes so that it stops trying to melt on me. I made it entirely out of cake and it was my first monster truck I have ever done. It's not perfect but my nephew really enjoyed it.

Camouflage Jeep

All I got told for this birthday was that he wanted camouflage. So I decided to make him a jeep 4x4 ing through rocks. Everything was again made entirely out of cake and homemade butter cream frosting. On the base I also added crushed oreo crumbs for dirt and oreos as the tires.

Chocolate Family Cake

This cake was for his family birthday, so I was told to do something simple for it. It is a simple round cake with homemade chocolate icing, and orange colored butter cream icing. All I did for this was pipe hunting objects around the sides.

Hunting Cake

This was one of the first fondant cakes I had ever done. It is a two tiered round cake with a camouflage rice crispy treat gun wrapped around the cake. I mixed the colors to make the fondant camouflage. (My fondant is always homemade, NEVER store bought) I piped an orange browning head on the face of the cake and used fondant and gold shimmer dust to make bullets to place around the cake.

Duck Dynasty Cake

Finally this year he wanted a Duck Dynasty cake. So since his favorite is Uncle Si, I decided to do this cake. It is Si coming out of the water with a duck decoy on his head. This is suppose to be the crazy way he decided to hunt the ducks that day. Since his hands are 'lethal weapons' he felt that if he let the duck come to him he would be able to get more of them. I dirty iced the entire cake with my homemade peanut butter icing and covered Si and the duck in my homemade marshmallow fondant. Every part of this cake is edible. It is entirely cake. The base was covered in blue colored piping gel to give it a swampy watery look.