This year’s Birthday Cake (Skylanders) is in the works!

OK, I know, I’ve been a slacker, don’t shoot me!

But it is June and you know what that means, time for another birthday party for The Boy and another birthday cake.  This year The Boy is turning 8, and he’s all into Skylanders.

So I’ve been working on the cake today.  It’s not going to be as ambitious as last years Dalek cake for the Doctor Who party, but I am trying out a new technique: Candy Clay.

Today I made candy clay, baked 4 cake layers for a 2 tiered cake, frosted the top and bottom tier with a crumb coat, and made up and colored a batch of marshmallow fondant.  whew!  I’m going to go play around with my candy clay now….

So, follow along on Twitter if you like to see pics of the in process stuff.

instagram cake photos

Pics from Instagram.

Previous The Boy Birthday Cakes (with tutorials):

Tutorial homemade dragon cake dabbled
Dragon Cake, featured on the cover of Amazing Cakes (Instructibles) book.
Perry The Platypus Cake (featured a bunch of places, including Disney blog.)
Perry The Platypus Cake (featured a bunch of places, including Disney blog.)

Angry Birds Cupcakes Tutorial
Angry Birds Cupcakes

The Dalek Cake, from last year's Doctor Who party.
The Dalek Cake, from last year’s Doctor Who party.

My first one - Robot cake (featured on MSNBC)
My first one – Robot cake (featured on MSNBC)
Clone Trooper cupcakes (from the Phineas and Ferb meet the Clone Wars party)
Clone Trooper cupcakes (from the Phineas and Ferb meet the Clone Wars party)