My soon to be 4 year old wants a hotwheels themed cake. I've been out of doing cakes all year for studies and really think it could be fun to come through on this one for my youngest and last baby.
I assume the monster truck is supported by something similar to fishing line, but what about the support for the loop? It looks like fondant and I'm not seeing supports. Am I clueless here? Is that a sturdy metal or another material?
by Ambitious_Step9506
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I assume there’s a sturdy hoop inside the race track that’s maybe hidden in fondant? With a platform on top and bottom screwed into it?
Looks like witchcraft. Good luck!
my first thought is that the top tier is a styrofoam dummy and that the monster truck is suspended with fishing line
Wow!!! I want to see what you create when you are done!!!
It’s possible that only the black tyre at the bottom is actual cake.
Good luck
Can’t wait to see the finished cake.
That top part doesn’t look like cake to me because of the bottom right edge but I could definitely be wrong because I’m just a lurker here
My mom used to do insanely elaborate cakes like this and I’d bet $100 that the top “cake” is not in fact cake.
It is a custom built structure inside. Essentially it is this: |-O-| inside, tipped upwards. So a flat base with a threaded rod, a circle with washer inserts north & south, another rod connecting a top plate for the top tier. $650 to $750 minimum. This is what I would do.
Your kiddo would love this cake.
To add to other comments, another reason I think the top tier isn’t real cake is that it has perfect dimensions. The sides and top are perfectly straight edges along the tiles in the photo. So I think this is styrofoam or something as someone else suggested.
There is absolutely no way that top tier is real cake. No only because of the weight issue but because you can see the difference in shape between the real cake and dummy tiers I would bet my life on it
Did you see the Hot Wheels cake where the track drove through a tunnel in the cake? It was posted earlier this month. It was incredibly well executed and looks a lot less expensive to reproduce! Just an idea.