This cake was for my boyfriend's nephew's 5th birthday in December. I was told vanilla cake, vanilla frosting with bananas on it. Real bananas. Then something about a car but that really didn't make sense so his mom told me we could put a toy car on it or something.
Well, here I was thinking I was a clever gal so in order to incorporate real bananas, I would make a cake that looked like a banana split! I made this cake at my boyfriend's house with limited tools/equipment, so it didn't look particularly great, but it was recognizable.
Yeah, piping skills still sub-par. Ah well. Vanilla cake, vanilla frosting. I baked the base cake in a round pan and carved it into the sundae dish shape. I used a Wilton Mini Wonder Mold pan and cut down the mini cakes to be short like ice cream scoops. I colored the vanilla frosting to have the colors I needed and used a little chocolate frosting for the chocolate scoop, and colored some chocolate frosting for the "fudge" on the chocolate scoop. The caramel is real caramel topping, the whipped cream is frosting, the strawberry topping is gum paste, as are the cherries.
The verdict? He immediately tried to take the cherries off because he didn't want them on there and he didn't like the cake in general. :-( I was crushed, but he IS only 5. Looking back, I would have gone with a Hot Wheels cake (he loooves HW) and just ignored his request for the bananas, but ah well. Live and learn.
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