TRACTOR CAKE TO BAKE AND ASSEMBLE
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About 1 1/2 mixes (loaf cake less than
1 mix, 6" a little over 1/2 mix)
Body of tractor: Standard
size bread pan
Large wheels: 6"
round pan
Small wheels: Oreo cookies
CARDBOARD for the tractor to sit on
..the same size as the tractor loaf cake)
10
X 14-INCH CARDBOARD for finished car
STYROFOAM (I use house insulation styrofoam.
It is cheap and just the right thickness).
OREO COOKIES for front wheels
BUTTERCREAM
ICING: Yellow for headlights, red for tail lights and chosen tractor
color (darker for outlining is nice).
DIRECTIONS/ASSEMBLY:
1. Bake cakes and place on a cake rack
to cool. You will need to trim the loaf cake slightly, to have the seat
elevated
2 Cut a piece of cardboard the same
size as the body of tractor. Wrap the cardboard in foil and tape underneath.
3. Cut a 1-inch thick piece of styrofoam
slightly smaller than the tractor.
4. Place styrofoam on 10x14-inch foil-wrapped
cardboard, secure with icing.
5. Place loaf cake on the
foil-wrapped
cardboard.
TRACTOR BODY:
1. Add OREO cookies for front wheels.
Decorate tip 5 or as desired.
2. Pipe yellow headlights, tip 4-5 and
smooth icing with a dab of water on your finger.
3. Pipe tail lights and smooth as above.
4. Steering wheel: Place half of an
Oreo on a dowel rod or drinking straw, decorate and press at an angle into
the loaf cake.
5. Star
fill-in tip18 desired color tractor.
6. Decorate wheels using star / writing
tips etc.
TIPS: Icing cut cake: Always add water
to thin icing down. Airbrush an icing road on the cardboard.
Add tip 233 green grass and
sprinkle
flowers.
Paint the grill with pearl
dust once crusted well! And around headlights etc.
*We DO carry a tractor-shaped
cake pan. It is very detailed and is located with PANS / then Pantastic
pans