Any bakers here? I need cake help!

[SweetMelissa]

My husbands birthday is this Friday and he hates store made cakes. He doesn't like how they taste. So he wants me to make him this cake



but I am NOT a baker at all! So how would I go about making this cake? The thing that's throwing me off is the blue part inside the cake. I also don't know how to do fondate (is that what its called?) so I was going to use icing and maybe I could melt airheads for the top? lol. Any ideas or suggestions would be awesome!

and yes this is the cake he wants. I really don't want to ask my MIL to make his cake again.

[mariewilcox]

Oh my - LOL - I'm a pretty good baker, but I wouldn't attempt that!

I can't tell if the red layers are cake or a filling of some type? As for the blue layer, I have no idea!

Sorry, I know I am no help at all!

[YepBrook]

First of all, you are a better woman than me... I would kindly say: "no hon, I can't make that cake! Pick again! Love you *kiss, kiss*" LOL!!!

As for my guess on how to make this cake...

It looks to me like they made 2 different kinds of cake. One red velvet cake, separated in 2 8" cake pans (then you could slice each round in half or thirds to make thin red sections). The red is layered with a white cake. It looks like they split the white cake into two cake pans also, with one half of the mix dyed blue with food coloring.

Layer the cake starting with the red velvet since you will have more red than white to work with. After you've stacked the cake, cut a notch in the top outer section equal to the height of your blue cake and (it looks like) about 3-4 inches deep into the cake. Cut a circle out of the inside of the blue cake and place the ring of the blue cake on top of the notched stacked red/white cakes. Ice in between each layer. Looks like LOTS of work.

As for fondant... yeah, it's lots of work. Would he be satisfied with a solid color of icing on the outside of the cake since the inside will be so awesome???

[SweetMelissa]

Brooke that is exactly what my MIL just told me to do as well! lol. I told him he has to pick one icing color for the outside since the inside is going to take me hours to do. lol. He better love me.

[BrattyMeg]

Here's the directions I'd just do the inside and ice it..skip the fondant!
http://www.geekologie.com/2012/04/ca...rican-flag.php

[BrattyMeg]

Here's another with better directions
http://www.glorioustreats.com/2011/0...flag-cake.html

[Arual]

I'd be ordering that cake from a bakery! LOL!!

[glumirk]

This one doesn't look too bad:

http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2010/06...flag-cake.html

And I would totally just buy the sugar sprinkles and make the top using stencils and a star cookie.

[lynnirene]

oh my, you are a very nice wife! I would say something like, "That's really neat looking, sweetie, but wouldn't you rather me spend my time making a really tasty, but not necessarily as pretty, cake?" and hope that he goes along with it

Good luck to you, though! You will have to let us know how it turns out!

[iScrap]

Originally Posted by FlirtatiousBrat

Here's another with better directions
http://www.glorioustreats.com/2011/0...flag-cake.html

This one looks easier to make than the others. You could make the banner using digi supplies, too! I would stick with the all white frosting on the exterior of the cake to make your life easier. I think it looks better, too. It lets the inside of the cake shine.

[Milmomma]

Just incase you wondered, you can buy already made fondant and just roll it out and use a pizza cutter to cut it. And I would use strawberry/ras filling for the red and skip that cake. Then really worry about making the white cake and the blue cake. I'd just do an extra round of white cake but with blue food coloring and cut out the middle circle, replace that with a white layer middle circle and be good.

[dana]

i vote for skipping the fondant too - i think it looks nice, but i think normal frosting tastes 1 million times better

[Gemma]

Mmm that cake looks so yummy, I want a slice of it