"It's a Strike!" Bowling Cake
by Amanda
(Las Vegas, NV)
"It's a Strike!"
I filled and layered 2 - 12" x 18" cakes. Using the sharp end of a veggie peeler, I scooped out the "gutters". I iced the cake in Buttercream and then covered it in brown Chocolate-Marshmallow Fondant. I used a 1/2" dry chip brush (cheap paint brush with the wooden handle, looks like a baster-brush )with a small amount of brown icing tint to get my "faux wood grain". This was evenly achieved by brushing off the excess brown on a paper plate before applying it to the fondant in a quick, back and forth, sweeping motion. I added strips of dark brown MM Fondant over the "gutters", and used the ball end of my fondant tool to shape it into the scooped out cake.
The bowling ball and pins were made out of MM Fondant a couple of days earlier so they could dry and harden up. I painted the red stripes with red icing tint mixed with a little bit of vodka(so that it would dry). Before adding these to the cake, I inserted toothpicks into the bottoms so I could get them to look as if they're falling down from being hit by the ball.
Last I added the red fondant triangle guides.
The "Happy Birthday" sign was printed on card stock and attached to wooden skewers, which were pushed down into the cake.
