An old friend whom i used to teach baking classes to a few yrs back got a hold of me via facebook and asked me to make 2 birthday cakes for her husband and his twin brother. They both love motorcycles and wanted to incorporate that theme onto the cake. I did not originally know what direction i wanted to go w/ the whole motorcycle theme. I scoured the net and looked at various examples of things and i did what i always do...i take an idea from this cake, then i take another idea from another cake and then throw my own stuff on it and come up with something original. I saw a cake that had handmade fondant gloves on it and i thought id like to incorporate that idea, then i saw a cake that had flames & i thought i wanted to incorporate that idea--wound up nixing that idea tho. they both wanted black & red colors so i figured that would be easy--i seem to do an over abundance of red & black cakes these days but its cool cuz i like working with red & black. I knew making a mototrcycle out of fondant was gonna seriously test my artistic abilities, not to mention my patience so i decided to just buy the motorcycles at a party gift store. they turned out to be perfect in size & look. But as i was making this cake i really did not know where i was going with it, design-wise so at the last minute i thought id pull out my damask stencil & add a little glamour to it & i managed to pull off a motorcyle cake that was artistic & pretty yet kept its masculine edge.
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