Godzilla cake

Godzilla cake

Ingredients:

2 9×13 sheet cakes
buttercream frosting
chocolate fondant
white fondant
yellow gel dye
black gel dye
graham crackers (for sand)
blue sprinkles (for water)

Instructions:

First I laid out a plan, every good designer has a plan right? I wanted to get a vision on how the height of the cake buildings work in relation to Godzilla himself. Once the cityscape was laid out, I was ready to go.

I cut and stacked the cake at varying heights according to the plan and to see how the figure would fit. This Godzilla figure was short, so a two stack of cake was sufficient. I created all the cake buildings off to the side and then moved them into placing them before serving.

Once everything was laid out I quickly crumb coated the cake with frosting, enough to help the fondant adhere. Then I rolled out the fondant to a size that easily draped over the cake.

With the fondant was over the cake, I smoothed the corners and cut off any excess. Since I was also going for more of a cartoon-like look I wasn’t worried about sharp edges. I used simple gray and yellow dyed fondant to add details to the buildings, as well as smoke stacks and turrets out of the same color fondant to give the roof a little more depth.

To ready the cityscape, I used a baking sheet to lay out the plan and rolled out dyed gray fondant for the street paving. Once that was down I moved the cake buildings onto their sites.

By adding landscape details like blue sprinkles for water, crushed graham crackers for sand, it gave the city a little bit more life.

There you have it, a completed Godzilla cake! To which the Baby said, “YAY. WHEN DUZ HE SMASH IT ALL?” Uh…I realized that I had just built an architectural model. Not so much “Godzilla destroys the city” as “Godzilla goes out for a leisurely stroll to see the sights.” In the end the guests ate the cake and the Baby got his ‘smashed’ city. I think Godzilla felt a bit of satisfaction too.