Rubik's Cube Cake

Here is a picture of the Rubik's cube cake I made for my oldest DS.  We had all of the ingredients necessary for the cake in the pantry.  But I don't usually keep black licorace in my pantry, so that was an item I had to purchase and could only find it at Walmart.  I also found that I needed eggs, since all I had was hard-boiled.

I know that the cake is not quite square or even, but it is 4 layers as it is and to keep from having to make another 1 or 2 layers, I tried to 'prop up' the corners with extra icing, but didn't quite get it.  I know how and what I am supposed to do to make it even, I just didn't want to make more cake!  Even for a family of 8, that is a lot of cake!

Plus, I took the picture before I cleaned up the tray.  I was planning on using a cardboard cake tray 'thingy', but I had to store it temporarily overnight on this while I was making it and it stuck quite nicely on this, so I just left it on the round cake keeper thingy.

It is alternating 2 layers of chocolate and 2 layers of yellow cake with chocolate icing.  The licorace and colored buttercream are on top of the chocolate.  I knew we would throw away the licorace - no one here likes it.

Here is the cake in the process of being made.

 

Some of my very early Cakes - from 2007

Thought I'd share some of my other cakes:

Some I can't remember the occasion but there was something going on.  Some might have been re-doing the cake done during the decorating class.  They all were from very early on when I first started decorating...

I think I redid one from class for this one.

Just liked the way this one looked (the professional one that is).  Mine turned out very 'not smooth'...

This one was for our church's tech team meeting.  Very appropriate since it was a tech team member's birthday!

First time doing those swag things...

DH asked for this one for a friend going to Iraq.

Tried to reproduce in my own way a cake I found somewhere.  I just don't know where it was...but their's was much prettier than mine turned out.  I think at the time, I just wanted to see if I could find the pattern and 'prove' that it wasn't that difficult.

Spiderman Cake

 I thought it would be fun to show the birthday cakes we make.  Two years ago, when the twins were about to turn 5, I decided to invest the money I would have spent on store bought decorated cakes, in learning how to decorate cakes myself.  So, my 2nd oldest DS and I took a cake decorating class.  Now, between the two of us, we can do a fair job on our own birthday cakes. DS is 'way better than' me when it comes to writing on the cake.  So he gets to be the one to do all the "Happy Birthday's"!  Hence, he was far better than me when it came to making the web on this cake.  In fact, he decorated the entire cake on this one - made the icing too!

I do have to say though, I admire ANYone that has the patience to decorate cakes and the ambition to practice to make it perfect.  I SO do not enjoy decorating cakes.  Well, it's OK sometimes...  At any rate, I know I am not cut out to decorate cakes for anyone else...too much pressure for making it perfect!