Spongebob Square Pant Cake

This post is not about a tutorial of how to make spongebob square pant cake. This post is about how to salvage when things don't go the way you have planned. I had offered to make a cake for my friend's son's birthday. Boy wanted a spongebob cake. I had planned to make different fondant elements in the beginning of the week so that it dries well. I did not know that I will be swamped at work the same week working about 12 - 14 hours a day on a new project. I still made the cake, everything went well, but not the way I had planned.

Firstly, it was an eggless cake. I have decorated many cakes, but none of them are eggless since most of them crumble when torted or carved. I could not use eggs this time. I chose this cake from allrecipes which uses condensed milk. I did make some changes taking the pointers from different reviewers but the cake came out dense and strong. I will probably stick to this recipe for all my eggless cakes that need to be decorated. I did not want to take the risk of torting and I used a homemade bake even strips. They rose without a hump in the middle and when I stacked them one on the other, it was fine without crumbling.

See the smudge mark? That happened just before taking pictures.

Then came the decorating part. I had plans of making rice crispy treat pineapple and then covering with fondant and decorating. I had again, no time. I went and got a styrofoam egg and covered that with fondant, painted. When it came to sticking the leaves, the fondant gum paste mixture leaves I had cut out the day before didn't dry. I had two options. Cut the leaves from real plant and stick it on the top or cut a foam sheet that was green in the shape. I chose the second option. But, the challenge was to make them stand up. I literally sewed them together and bundled them. Then I stuck them with a toothpick on the top of styrofoam pineapple.

To make my life easy, I used candy molds and made shells, star fish, turtle. All I had on hand were pink, white and chocolate candy melts. All in all, it was not a great job, but the kids loved it.

This cake is the best example for think outside the box. I kept a spongebob cake topper at the party, but I don't have the picture of that yet. I will update the post with that picture if I get it without any human being present in it.

Enjoy.