Birthday Cakes and Fimo

[Sakurako]

Lindy just told me that some of you would like FIMO birthday cakes. To
begin with, only one of the cakes shown in the Party Party was primarily
FIMO. That was the rectangular cake with the AG logo on it, and the "cake"
was really 2/3 of a cardboard wrapper for individual tuna cans, covered in
FIMO. Most of the cakes were old dusting powder lids heavily "frosted"
with acryllic paint, with FIMO decorations. For example, the big pink cake
has only FIMO raspberries. I realize that the old-fashioned bath powder
containers with the big powder puffs inside them are becoming hard to find.
However, you could easily frost some other round plastic container. I
would suggest using the individual "baking pan" that comes with those
delicious molten chocolate cake desserts that you microwave. After you've
enjoyed the dessert, wash out the baking dish, turn it upside down, paint
the rim whatever color you want the cake plate to be and then use Liquitex
acryllic to frost the outside of the bowl. If you want a square or
rectangular cake, I'd suggest looking for some styrofoam packing material
of the right shape. An example of this is the AGPNY style cake, which was
made by gluing together the four styrofoam cubes that held the Japanese
style birthday cake table in its box. The seams where the four cubes were
joined were covered by "ribbons" of FIMO that I glued over the seams after
I baked them but you could also use real ribbon and then paint over it to
look like frosting. You could also use regular canned frosting on any of
these bases. All the decorations on that cake and the blue decorations on
Gina's chocolate cake were made from FIMO. It would be easy for me to make
you FIMO cake decorations for these kinds of cake and not very expensive,
either to make or to mail.

The other option is to cover a small round cardboard box with FIMO and then
decorate it. I think it might cost as much as $30 to $35 per cake if I
used this method to make personalized birthday cakes and the shipping would
be high, also. If anyone is interested in this approach, please tell me
how large a cake you would want? I think Molly's birthday cake is a little
too small to be convincing, but that's just me.

Another alternative is to make FIMO cupcakes. I've been working on some.
They're very heavy because they use up an entire 2 ounce brick of FIMO
each. Cupcakes would cost $5 each if I made them for you, not including
shipping.

My final suggestion is, I think, the easiest and cheapest -- plus it tastes
good. Go to a kitchen supply shop and buy doll-sized cake pans. Then use
Jiffy cake mix and frosting mix and make an edible cake! It might not last
forever but you will also have the fun of eating it! And you can cut it
into individual servings, which you can't do with any of the solid cakes I
used in my party. The picture of Gina and her friends eating their cake?
That was a real cake, not FIMO! The yellow jackets that had been buzzing
around all afternoon being disappointed finally got to share in the
goodies."

[AG DRESS DESIGNER]

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