Tron

We all know Tron...lightcycle bikes and battles to the deresolution. grids and glowing lights...even if we didn't like the plot the effects were killer. And we all know dodgeball..those red schoolyard balls whizzing by our heads and we ducked, and yes, dodges for our little lives. Combine them and what do you get? You get a seriously awesome birthday celebration that I had the honor of making the cake for and attending. What started out as a joke ended up being an actual cake order and it was fun from start to finish! 

I started out with a quick sketch and then away I went.

 I used my own chocolate cake recipe that I've been tweaking for years but you can use whatever flavor you want. 


To my chocolate cake I added a whipped chocolate ganache filling with crushed chocolate filled chocolate sandwich cookies( you know the ones).

Did I mention it was a half sheet cake? I had a little trouble getting the top bake on after I filled, but that's what frosting is for right?

Then I frosted it with my chocolate butter cream, also from scratch. Since I was going to cover it with fondant(spoiler) I wasn't worried about making absolutely perfect.

I baked off 4 more cakes using the same chocolate cake recipe to make the towers and covered it all in black fondant.

Time to add the details!

This was A LOT of tedious work but i had my music going and I was in the zone!

I free handed these letters after downloading the tron font the day before!

Almost done!

Finally done! From start to finish it took me about 6hrs...in between feeding the kids and other life stuff!

Glowing in the black light! The entire venue was pretty much blacked out and we all walked around with glow in the dark clothes and glow sticks everywhere!