I am making a fire truck cake that RJ found on YouTube. I baked three little 8x4 cakes and cut them into various-sized pieces to make a fire truck shape. Then it came time to whip up the colored frosting. I ordered gel food coloring from Amazon to ensure I had vibrant colors. Jip made up the gray. It's black gel, but the frosting is supposed to be gray.
I guess it is. It's pretty purplish, but it was in the video, too, so I guess that's fine. Then it was time for me to make the red. I used an entire tub of red gel. The frosting was still pink. So, I said, "I'll mix in some burgundy to darken it up." It turned kinda purple. Whooooops!! I decided that the now purplish frosting would have to be a crumb coat only. Once I made that decision, Jip and I got our mad scientist on and started adding in other colors. After a little bit of black and a little bit of brown, this is what we ended up with.
So, tomorrow morning, the store opens at 9. I will be there to get another can of frosting and all of the red food coloring they have (or maybe I'll just buy some red frosting in a tube?).
Jip's prep work went much better than mine. Jip had to put together a kid's workbench.
It was pretty straight forward, except we discovered that it was missing a small piece. Of course, it has been nearly a year since we bought it (it was on clearance last summer) and it is 11:00 pm, so there isn't a whole lot we can do about it. But, I don't think RJ will care. It turned out pretty awesome.
I think we're ready for a fun day tomorrow!!
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