Skateboard Cake with Moving Wheels

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Comment by Gail Taylor on November 6, 2011 at 7:33pm

You are welcome!  Have fun :)

Comment by Felicia Bishop on November 6, 2011 at 6:49pm

Thanks for the detail Gail. I'm going to give it a try in December for a girlfriends son. I think I will make a practice one in the mean time. LOL Thanks for the inspiration!

Comment by Gail Taylor on November 6, 2011 at 5:41pm

Thanks Felicia :)  I did this one over a year ago, with a lot of other cakes in between... so I'm not too sure about all of it.  The main things I did was carved the cake so that its ends curved down, the way a real skateboard would when lying upside down.  (I went into Walmart and put one of their skateboards on the floor, upside down, and took a couple of pics of it ;)  The other important part was to carve all the cake out from underneath it, so it would look like it was resting on the two curved ends.  Then I put black butter cream under there so it would look like shadow.  For the graphics, I copied a real Tony Hawk skateboard that I found online.  It's all done with fondant (the red skateboard, green logo, skull graphics).  This is what I can't remember... whether I did the skull with edible markers or hand painted it with color paste... I think I did it with the color paste.  That's how I do most of my stuff like this.  The trucks (axil) and wheels are made out of modelling chocolate, and then painted with silver pearl dust.  I put a skewer through the truck and then each wheel was put on, and then the wheels were able to spin on the axil :)  (to make the right shape of the axil, I used the pictures I had taken at Walmart :)     Hope you give it a try!  Good luck :)

Comment by Felicia Bishop on November 4, 2011 at 9:12pm

I would love more detail on how you did this cake. I think it is amazing! Stands out from all the others! Trying to imagine how I would begin to try something like this :)

Comment by Jennifer Ponder on May 11, 2010 at 7:54am

Wow, that is really cool, looks just like a skate board, awesome job