Wow! Am I excited with how this turned out! I was sent several Tow Mater pictures to consider while making this cake for Megan and Gavin. This started out as a 12x18 sheet of chocolate chocolate-chip cake. I cut three 6"x12" sections of cake. and stacked two of them on top of one another. I doweled the center area where I was going to stack the cab of the truck. Then, I cut the remaining 6x12 in half and stacked it on top of one another to form the driver's cab.
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| This is a 1" sheet of styrofoam cut about 1.5" smaller than the cake. This will provide the gap under the truck so that the tires look like they're in the right spot. |
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| Dirty iced-side view. |
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| Dirty iced-front view |
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| Dirty iced-back view. |
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| Yes! Tow Mater is actually blue underneath all of that rust! This is the base layer of blue and green fondant. |
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| As soon as I covered the cake in blue fondant I made a small cut in the front and inserted a piece of paper towel to help form his lip in preparation for his teeth. |
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| All black sections of the towing set up are dowels covered in black fondant. I stuck them together with a little bit of water. I used melted chocolate for the end piece. The tow cable are peelable twizzlers. |
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| Mater's eyes. In hindsight, they're a bit small...but at least I captured the look of Mater. |
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| I purchased wire at Micahels that was covered in brown wrap. These will be Mater's side mirrors after they dry. |
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| I used a cookie cutter and cut tires out of styrofoam. Then, I put a layer of piping gel and fondant on the wheels. I used a small circle cutter for the rims and dragees for the bolts. |
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| Side panel of Mater's car. I used the fine tip decorating pens and hand wrote this on. |
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| Front engine area. I used a rectangular piece of fondant and a circle cutter to cut out the black part. |
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| Mater's trademark buck teeth. |
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| White fondant dusted with yellow dust with black fondant stripes. |
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| All details are in place. Now all that is left is dusting! |
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| Back view... |
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| I used 3 different colors of luster dust and "dusted" Mater's rust on to him. I used bronze, aztec gold, and dark brown. My inspiration for the cake is at the bottom of the picture! |
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| Final cake-back and side view. |
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| Final cake-front view |
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| Final-back view. |
