Tools Cake for 60th Birthday + Happy Father’s Day!
Happy Father’s Day!! I don’t have a specific “Father’s Day” cake to share with you, but I do have this very manly Tools Cake that I did just yesterday for Randy – celebrating his 60th birthday!
His daughter threw him a big party and ordered this tools cake – specifically asking for a measuring tape and level – her father’s favorite and most used tools!
I’m sharing it today because I thought this tools cake might be fitting for lots of dads out there on Father’s Day!!
This cake would be a great cake for my Daddy too (unlike the golf bag cake I shared the other day!)… my Daddy works with his hands all the time!! Side note – I’m really missing my Daddy today – he’s in Thailand on a mission trip. If you can spend the day with your Daddy, count your blessings!!
Here are a few details…
This was was a huge cake… it was two 12″x18″ sheet cakes stacked up on top of each other and it was around 4″ tall (maybe a little more!). The estimated servings was 76-98 (according to the Wilton chart I use).
For the measuring tape and level, I made my own molds after using the tutorial by Verusca that I mentioned here. Since it was the first time I’d done anything like that, my technique needs some work, but the tools weren’t too shabby considering.
After getting a general shape from the mold, I added details with my xacto knife, gum paste modeling tools, straws (for the level) and food markers.
For the needle-nose pliers and the hammer, I used chocolate molds. I dusted the molds with corn starch, then pressed the fondant into them, popped them into the freezer for 10 minutes or so, then popped the tools out and made the details really shine with gum paste tools.
I used one of my new(er) alphabet cookie cutter sets and number cutter sets that I got from Brown Cookie. I really like the font of these letters! On exception… I used my lower case block tappit cutters to do the “th” on the 60th!
Because I know my customer loves buttercream, I piled lots of it between layers and all over the cake, then I piped the border on with a large Ateco #825 star tip (from this large tube set).
This cake was vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and the tools were made with homemade marshmallow fondant and Satin Ice Black Vanilla fondant (both with tylose added to help them harden!).
Do you have any questions about this cake? If you made your father a cake for Father’s Day – I’d love to hear what kind! Leave me a comment!!
It was absolutely perfect Rose!! He loved it!!! Everybody kept asking “who made the cake? It is delicious!”
Awww, thank you Melanie!! xx
Rose, you always make me laugh when you say “my technique needs work” or “it’s my first time, so it’s not so great” or words to that effect, and then when you look at the picture of the cake, it’s frigging perfection. Lol… Those tools couldn’t possibly be any closer to the real deal without buying some miniature tools and sticking them on that cake!! Amazing Job….AGAIN!!!
Kim
LOL – thanks Kim! I guess we’re always our own worst critic!
Hi Rose. Love the cake! You mentioned that you used fondant in your chocolate molds. I have tried to do that with some shell molds, but even with popping them in the freezer for more than 10 minutes, they just wouldn’t release correctly. Do you think perhaps is was the detail of the mold? I had not put Tylose in the fondant because I wanted the shells to be eaten on a cookie. I ended up just using chocolate. Thanks
Thanks Angie! I’ve been able to do this with lots of shapes in the past and had no trouble. I forgot to mention… also used a big paint brush to lightly dust corn starch inside the mold. Have you tried that? I’m gonna add that detail to the post!
I will keep trying. I believe I dusted my molds too!! do they just pop out for you or do you have to start them off? Thanks Rose!
I usually just bend the mold back and forth a little bit and it comes right out!
Ahh perhaps that’s the difference. Mine are hard rigid plastic. I am going to try creating my own molds too like the Verusca vid. Thanks for the link to that!
What a perfect guy’s cake! I may have to “steal” this one myself for my husband or father! Both very handy men. That’s wonderful your Dad is on a mission trip, praying for a safe time there and travels home.
i couldnt do this by my self if i tried