Justice League Cake

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The Long awaited JUSTICE LEAGUE CAKE!!

I have decided to do a dummy cake. What is a dummy cake you ask, well it is made out of styrofoam. Then covered in fondant like a regular cake but the best thing is it last for a long time! One of the many reason why I love styrofoam so much.

So my first dummy cake I decided to do was The Justice League (of America) for all the nerds out there! It is a six tier cake. One tier for each original member....BUT not only is it the members of the Justice League, there is also their number one villain on the back side. Yup that is right half super hero and half villain.

Superman Vs. Lex Luthor


Superman side is His color with the "S" logo on front. The logo is made out of yellow fondant and the "S" is hand painted on. The red cape is on top, is thinly rolled fondant placed to look like Superman is flying. Superman's belt is at the bottom of the tier, its hard to see behind Batman's cape.

Lex Luthor is on the other side of Superman. Not most would recognize this as Lex but the symbol that is on this tier is from his krypton suit that he wore to keep from dying. Apparently too much krypton exposure for anyone is bad. Haha little superman humor. Everything on this tier is just to mimic Lex's suit, and made out of just fondant.

Batman Vs. The Joker

Now for the Dark Knight!! The bat symbol is a tad more 3-D. At the bottom of his tier the boarder represents the utility belt Batman is always supporting. Pretty sure one of those compartments is infinite, where else is he going to get everything he needs when ever he conveniently needs it?! His black cap is draped over the top of his would be shoulders.

On the opposite side of Bats is the infamous Joker!! From the bright green color to the purple belt boarder. His mouth was actually carved into the fondant. All the teeth that make up his famous smile were made one by one. All of them were petal dusted to give the dirty grimy look of his teeth. You can't help but SMILE when seeing this tier.

Green Lanter (John Stewart) Vs. Sinestro

Green Lanter is up next. Since there are five total green lanters from earth. I know what your thinking, WOW so many I didn't know about!? The one from Justice League is John Stewart. Each Suit is different thats why there is a significance to get it right. Also I made a Green Lantern ring to go along with the costume (not shown). Nothing special, just constructed all out of fondant.

 Sinestro who used to be a green lantern is now yellow, the opposite of green and not to mention bad. Yellow is fear and green is will power. Sinestro was the creator of the Yellow corp. making him the strongest. Anyway It is just a mimic of his suit. His symbol is hand drawn on his suit everything else is fondant.

Flash Vs. Captain Cold

Flash is up next on the cake. His suit is very basic. So he just has the symbol in front with lighting bolt belt, and lightening blots on the side of the cake to mimic his head piece on his suit. It's simple but yet screams flash.

For the Villan I choose Captain Cold. The only reason I choose him was because he is Flash's number one villain. I felt like Captain Cold compliments Flash better than say gorilla grodd. It just the basic ice blue suit with the white ice shawl on top and his yellow belt.

Martian Man Hunter Vs. Ma'alefa'ak J'onzz

Next up is Martian Man Hunter. This shows his bare chest with the red straps that hold his cloak on. The cloak is draped over the rest of the cake. The reason his cloak is straight and less wrinkly than Superman and Batman is that when every you see Martian Man Hunter in the series not a single ripple is to be found, BUT it did mimic the collar to give it some life.

On the other side you will find his brother Ma'alefa'ak, if you fide yourself struggling on the name its ok I don't think any one really knows how to pronounce it properly. If you can, congratulations to you!! This is to mimic Ma'alefa'ak coat. From the chains to the rips. I do enjoy it!

Wonder Woman Vs. Cheetah

Lastly we have Wonder Woman. It was created to mimic her suit. With the blue and stars on the bottom to the red on top. She also has the Wonder Woman symbol hand painted in the front.

For her villain I choose Cheetah. For a couple of reasons. She was shown more in the series and for the fact I wanted to show off some of my free hand withe the Cheetah print. Yup! That's right no stencil here all free hand.

To complete the whole cake the watch tower from the first season of JLA will be the topper for the cake. It is made completely out of rice crispy and fondant. With hand painted marking and details.

This cake is more on the 2-D side but I am constructing some 3-D cakes for the future! I hope you enjoyed if and will give you some cake ideas for the future and come order them. Any idea is welcome for a cake no matter how impossible you think it is. I will try my best to make it happen to the best of my ability. Also if you have any crazy ideas for a dummy cake let me know, I'm always up for something new!!

**Don't forget we have a post again on Friday!!** 

Emotions of a Cake Decorator

There is a list of emotions that happens when I do cakes that are not dummies.

 Before I bake them I get extremely excited and happy to do them. All the ideas start flowing, I plan every little detail out how I am going to do what. Then comes the baking part. After the batter is made and in the oven that is when the anxiety sets in. Thoughts pop in my head like will it turn out? will it even bake? am I even capable of doing this? All of this self doubt happens.

I guess it's because I strive for perfection on each cake the I make. Its my name going out there and I want this to be perfect. My heart and soul goes into every cake I make. They are like my children, that are meant to be eaten, but minor details. I have a lot of self doubt.

After the cake is out of the oven a relief set in. Seeing the cake in its perfection calms the doubt for now.

After it cools and is inspected to make sure that it is still amazing I stack it. Taking lot of time and effort to make sure that it is completely level. Nothing's worse than an unstable cake that's leaning.

Then the anxiety returns when the frosting stage sets in. I'm ok with frosting but I always get nervous to make sure the sides are parallel and the top level. Not to mention trying to get it as smooth as possible to look like fondant. Which I am amazing at. Fondant is the only thing that I am 100% confident with.

After it's covered in fondant or just iced. I have a little moment of relief, if it looks good. Which I'm told it always does, but I always find at least one or two things I think are bad but no one ever notices. The way I look at it is, The day I don't find I mistake or something to work on is the day that I stop striving for perfection.

Then I start to decorate which gives me the most joy because I know the hard parts are behind me. I really do love to decorate it gives me a feeling of accomplishment and happiness. You can always find me smiling unless the cake is giving me attitude then I am frowning but that rarely ever happens.

Yes, cakes do have a personality; each one is different. Most are very pleasant but you will always get that rotten egg that just doesn't want to cooperate. It tries your patients and your sanity but in the end they are the most magnificent work you have ever done because you try your hardest.

Though I do that with every cake I bake. I feel like each is an extension of my self. I strive to show that passion to every one and hopefully they will appropriate it as much as it do.