Pool Table: Vanilla cake, with chocolate buttercream icing covered with chocolate fondant around the edges and green-blue tinted fondant (as the felt) and little black fondant pockets.
Billiard Balls: Sugar-glazed doughnut holes covered in white fondant, painted with gel food coloring and vanilla-flavored vodka.
Pool Cue & Chalk: White fondant tinted and rolled with ivory and brown gel food coloring (for a "wood" look) and chocolate fondant at the end and the tip-dusted with blue Luster Dust for "chalk". White fondant tinted black and turquoise for the chalk cube.
It seems just yesterday that we were putting her baby shower together (see June 2008 *Bouncin' Baby Shower*) and now that little bundle of joy is becoming mobile! In order for her parents to chase her down as she revs up to chase the dogs, the pool table was being evicted to the garage, so a farewell party was planned. And you can't have a farewell party without CAKE!
Miraculously, I whipped up this cake in about 6 hours, split between the night before and the day of the party. (I'm sure someone out there is saying, "yeah, it looks like this was thrown together in 6 hours....but I don't care, the cake wasn't for you!)
The doughnut holes were the best part (and most time consuming), I thought it was such a coup to have the whole cake completely edible-even if the billiard balls were a tad disproportionate to the pool table. Just in case anyone is wondering...yes, I know there are more than 10 in a complete set, I did make all 16, but only 10 (plus cue ball) fit on the cake, so there.
Sure, if I had thought to bring a cake to this party sooner, I would have added little extra touches (like pockets with fringe and those diamond markers that go around the edge of the table), but I thought this cake was really cute! On a cuteness scale of 10 being the Bow-Wow Birthday cake (first post) and 1 being the Eye Scream Cupcakes (see December 2009), I'd have to say that this cake is up there with Little Orphan Annie & Sandy cupcakes (see August 2008) and the Build-A-Bear Santa cake (future post!)
Farewells are never easy, even if it's only geographic, so to soften the blow, why not immortalize it in cake! My next farewell tribute might have to be for my own party, as I have a super cute pair of Steve Madden peek-a-boo flats that need to be put out of their misery...
Rack 'em Up!
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