After making a successful cake with fondant we wanted another excuse to play with fondant. S's cousin turned 10 a day after S so we saw it fit to make her a cake. She is absolutely obsessed with Juicy, so we wanted to make her a Juicy cake. We googled different Juicy cakes and a lot of them seemed to be way over our heads but we finally found a juicy shopping bag cake that looked like something we could accomplish.
Making this cake was a lot harder than we thought it was going to be. We started by baking two rectangular chocolate cakes with the intention of cutting them in half and then stacking them. Unfortunately when we tried to stack the cakes they started to fall over. After trying many attempts of getting the cake to stand up straight we decided there was no hope for this juicy cake. We didn't want to waste all the cake that we made so we decided to turn the cake into cakepops!
There was no way we were giving up on the Juicy cake. So the next day we baked two more chocolate cakes but instead of using them right away we refrigerated them so that they became more firm. Our next challenge was the fondant. We were able to the right shade of pink fondant but the brown was another story. We tried liquid and gel food coloring but we just couldn't make the fondant a dark brown. We finally got it to a light sandy brown and decided to just use that color so we wrapping it in plastic wrap and then a few minutes later the light sandy brown became dark brown!
The next day we cut the cakes in half and stacked them. We layered the cakes with a delicious oreo buttercream. This time because the cakes were firm they didn't lean. We rolled the pink fondant out over the cake and then used cookie cutters to spell out Choose Juicy.
We also used the brown fondant to make handles on the bag. S's cousin was very happy when she saw the cake and it tasted amazing.
