Tyler's Brithday cake

Tyler's official birthday isn't until next Saturday, but we celebrated with the Miles Family today and then, we'll celebrate it with my parents next weekend. Anyways, for months I've been trying to decide how to decorate Tyler's cake and what theme to use. I was originally going ot go with Buzz Lightyear, then it was Kung Fu Panda, then Superman. What I finally decided on was a Superman, Batman, and Spiderman cake. I have never used fondant before and I wanted to try it out. It went really well. I think I am in love. I told Cory I didn't ever want to use frosting again. I actually made my own fondant using marshmallows. It was so easy to make too. I used the recipe off of this site. I was a little scared and nervous at first, but it came together really well. I made teh Hershey's chocolate cake for noth the round cake and the superman logo. Then, it was time for the fun part, covering it with fondant. The round cakes were pretty easy to cover. The superman logo gave me a hard time though. Lessons I learned......put the cakes on a piece of cardboard. I should've learned from watching so much Duff. My superman logo cake didn't get placed well on top of the round cakes, so I really should've covered it on top of a cardboard, then placed it on the cake. I reall yneed to practice rolling the fondant. I think I may have made the batman logos too thick. It was hard to tell for my first attempt though. All in all, I think I did a good job for my first try. It was rally fun too. I highly recommend it to everyone.

Why haven't I discover Wilton's gel dye before now......It really makes the colors pop.

This is the good side of the cake. The other side is kind of bad and messy.

The fondant in the fridge. Tyler opened up the fridge and thought it was cool. I think they look like balls of play dough.

Awsome S. That took me awhile to figure out. But, it looks awesome and is my favorite part of hte cake.

Holy good looking cake, BATMAN.

Nice looking bats.

Another view from above.