I mentioned in my last post that Jimmy’s birthday was on Monday. I followed my yearly tradition of baking and decorating a cake for him!
He’s really into Ford trucks, so I figured I’d make a cake with the Ford symbol on it. Pretty simple! I baked a chocolate cake, whipped up a batch of vanilla buttercream frosting, and got to work.
I divided the cake into two layers and filled the middle with a thin layer of buttercream. I also frosted the outside with a light crumb coat. Then I worked on the fondant.
I decided to go with pre-dyed blue fondant this year after spending over two hours dying fondant in 2012, LOL.
After I cut the fondant to the cake’s size, I began to pipe “Ford” on the cake. I only felt comfortable doing this after spending a few hours practicing with different pastry tips earlier in the week…
After piping the letters, I used another pastry tip to pipe some flowers along the bottom of the cake to add a little pizzazz.
Suddenly, the cake was done. Ahhh. I instantlyy felt my shoulders drop away from my ears, haha.
I think it’s safe to say that Jimmy liked it because he dug right in. Please excuse the mess behind Jimmy in the picture of him cutting the cake! (Notice our china that we were generously given in the lower right hand corner?!)
Past cakes for Jimmy’s birthday…
Cheeseburger cake in 2011, welding cake in 2012, and Oreo cake in 2013!
Living My Full Life 
Your cakes look awesome!! Way to work that fondant!!
Haha, thank you Brittany!!
I love your cake! I remember the welding cake but not the others, but I love how you do this for Jimmy each year for his birthday :). It’s so fun and creative and the cake looks delicious as well.
Thanks, Amy!! I’m pretty sure I like baking and decorating the cakes more than Jimmy likes eating them hahah.
I frosted ice cream cakes all day today! I am getting good at writing on them however I’ve never experimented with fondant. Too laborious haha
Yay for ice cream cakes! I’m going to be making my first one the day before my wedding haha. Oh boy! Fondant can definitely be laborious!
Wow all these cakes just look amazing. I could not be happier for you and I’m glad you enjoyed making them.
Thanks Hollie! I definitely enjoyed making them… probably even more than Jimmy enjoyed them haha.
So much work for such a simple design! You are so talented :)! I’m also blown away by the cheeseburger cake…
Seriously…. imagine if it was some crazy complicated design… yikes! But thank you for the compliment, P! I think the cheeseburger cake was definitely the best one.. or at least the most unique haha.
I think that you’re making him fun cakes every year is SUCH a wonderful tradition!! 🙂 Someday, you’ll have a scrapbook of memories, and how much fun will it be to look back on all these cakes… and memories!!
Thanks, Nicole!! Yay for scrapbooking all the memories 🙂
You are so sweet! What a fun tradition to have 🙂 that cheeseburger cake is awesome!
Thanks, Leigha! I thought of you the other day when my sister got nominated for the cold water challenge! I showed her your video and I was like “She lives in Michigan!!!” haha. My sister officially thinks you’re hard core!
Hahahaha that’s awesome! Thanks for telling me 🙂
oh gosh, these cakes are awesome! they look incredibly professional, and now i’m thinking i should probably try one. is the fondant hard to master? i think that’s the only thing holding me back…
Thanks!! It’s definitely a lot of fun to give it a shot, even if it all goes haywire (which happens to me from time to time!). The fondant isn’t too tough to master. I just watch a lot of YouTube videos before I have the courage to go for it 😉
AMAZING. You are so talented!!! Also, I work for Leif Johnson FORD as a social media rep…..could I maybe use a picture of your cake for a Facebook post? We’re always looking for stuff like this.
Thank you, Christina!! You can definitely use any pictures of my cake for Facebook!
I’ve said it before, but you are one of the most amazingly thoughtful people in the world. Yo uare amazing and the relationship between you and Jimmy is so wonderful! Love the cake!
Aww, thank you so much for that compliment, Nikki! That made my day!
Came out great!
I bet you wrote Ford so many times it started to sound SUPER weird. I love it when that happens.
Thanks, Missy!! YES it totally did seem weird after a while. I was like whoa… what am I doing?!
This looks awesome!! Good job. You make the BEST looking cakes, my friend.
Thank you, Amy!!
I looked at all of you previous posts of all the cakes and it was a wow moment! Good job dear you. You have some creativity and talent. Plus a kind heart. A winner combination. Your man is lucky to have a girl like you.
Aww, thank you so much! That means a lot to me coming from you!
You are so creative!!!!! Love love love it!
Thanks, Kim!!
You did a great job! You always do! I’m impressed with your baking skills. That cheeseburger cake is especially impressive to me!