Red Velvet Hunger Games Cake

Okay, I am just putting it out there now, I LOVE The Hunger Games, all the books and now, the movie. So, in honor of it coming out on DVD (Which my daddy bought me on it's release day, the 4 disk special edition set!) I decided to make a cake. Which, this is NOT what I posted on facebook, that will be coming later, maybe next week or so. Sometime after the cake is eaten. Anyway, it's a Red Velvet cake with vanilla butter cream and the marshmallow fondant I made a post a go.

Now, I didn't make anything fancy or special so there really isn't a recipe. I have done the butter cream and it's box mix, and I showed how to do the fondant, so, what am I going to do? Tips! :D

Okay, I was a dummy and didn't think to print out a template to use for the pin....so what should you do? Print out a template. Which really is, just find a outline of the image, print it out to the size you need DO NOT JUST PRINT, you should figure out what size you will need, and fix the image to the size you need. Once it's printed, cut away all the undesirable pieces until you do have an outline. Roll out the fondant, place the template on top of it and cut away all the undesirable pieces of fondant, I just used a plain kitchen knife for this.

If you forget, or just don't want to kneed the color into the fondant (If you didn't color it before hand like the site for the fondant says to do...) just get a little bowl, squirt some drops of liquid fondant (NOT GEL) into it, and using a paint brush (I bought a set for baking, all clean and ready for use on cakes, they were also the little cheap ones, they still get the job done, no need for fancy expensive stuff!) paint on the color! I recommend doing this before you put it on the cake, letting it dry and then placing your image on the cake. Using a spatula or any thin flat surface would work, to help assist if need be.

Use a tooth pick to trace, do it. It will give you an idea before you make anything permanent, maybe even do just water, that will wipe away, or powder sugar, really anything that will wipe away, just don't do food coloring to outline, you might mess up and then you will have a spot on your cake.

Use your resources, I can't draw a straight circle to save my life, never have, so, I found a bowl that had the outer rim size that I needed and put it on my fondant and traced that.

Don't get frazzled, I don't know how much I can stress that. DO NOT GET FRAZZLED IN THE KITCHEN! It just leads to messes. The one time I got frazzled in the kitchen I messed up icing. Added like 8 times the butter I needed and like 3 times the shortening I needed, it was BAD, I had to start all over, those ingredients, gone, wasted. It sucks, don't get frazzled, it leads to messes and accidents and just makes your day/night bad.

Have fun, play some music and just relax, if you are in the kitchen baking or decorating, just have fun, the sky is your limit with it. You can make or do just about anything you want! Seriously. Just google _______ Cake, there is bound to be something someone made. I have seen cakes that don't even look like cake, they look like a sculpture that belongs in a museum. That is how funky you can get with cake, just have fun and if you mess up, laugh about it, don't get discouraged, everyone messes up, I know I have plenty.

Now for my cake!

It didn't turn out exactly the way I wanted, the Mocking Jay pin should have been better but what can you do? I was dead tired so here we go. 

This is just the top, it has my favorite quote "May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor", and the pin, which both need work, I don't have the best penmanship and I should have printed a template. But it's too late and this is what it looks like, which isn't terrible, I have seen worse cakes. 

If have any questions or something you want to see me make, or want to know if I can find an easier way to do, just comment on here or on my facebook page, I am bound to be on and see it! Thank you!

Mega Cakes<3