Well, the cake turned out, uh, differently than I had imagined.
Some things went well. I think the side “heat sinks” came out pretty good. I used a Christmas cookie covered in green icing for the center “Xbox Jewel”. Tootsie Rolls became joystick ports, and SweetTarts became buttons. I didn’t worry about the colors — I wanted them to look like candy.
What went wrong. Well, for starters, I wasn’t able to find black shoestring licorice, which is what I had planned on using for much of the design. I ended up carving directly into the icing which, while it worked, wasn’t what I had planned. The other thing that went wrong was the white icing I bought. I had planned to write “XBOX” in white across the cookie and across the front to make it more authentic looking, but the white icing came out so sloppy that I had to scrap it. Susan saved the day by picking up some candy letters which I used. Had to buy two packs, of course (two “X”s).
The combination of the black icing and the camera flash makes the cake’s surface look a little funky, but for a quick job, it turned out okay. Most importantly, Mason thought it was “awesome,” and that’s good enough for me.
The cake looked great, and tasted fantastic………I noticed one of the kids had a black icing ring around his mouth , so then I was worried that I probably had black teeth then!
Hope you’re feeling better. Liz
He’ll remember this party for the rest of his life, from the great cake his dad made him to the jump zone to the lost tooth. All part of the excitement. You did a great job, Dad!