For Mason’s birthday party this Saturday he has requested an Xbox cake. I have volunteered to create the cake. Did I mention I’ve never really decorated a cake before? For the uninitiated, this is what a real Xbox looks like:<\/p>\n

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One thing I’ve always been really good at is charactures. The secret involves looking at a person or item picking out unique parts and then emphasizing them (my team always won in Pictionary and Win, Lose or Draw). When looking at that Xbox, I think the key features are: black, green circle on top, roughly rectangular.<\/p>\n

After searching Google, I’ve discovered two things. #1, Xbox cakes aren’t all that rare, and #2, there are some really good looking ones out there. Most of these seem to use fondant — that thick stuff they use on some wedding cakes (and all those cake competition shows). What I didn’t know before I started researching this cake is, most people don’t eat fondant. They pick it off before eating the cake. How dumb is that? I don’t want to make a cake that you can’t eat! A tasty alternative I’ve run across is a marshmallow-based fondant which apparently also works and is tasty as well. Unfortunately, I’m not sure learning a new cake technique the day before the cake is due is the best idea. This time around I’m going to stick with the basics.<\/p>\n

Here are a few Xbox cakes I found via Google. Looks like I am up against some stuff competition.<\/p>\n

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I’ll post pictures of mine tomorrow, regardless of how it turns out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Mason’s birthday party this Saturday he has requested an Xbox cake. I have volunteered to create the cake. Did I mention I’ve never really decorated a cake before? For the uninitiated, this is what a real Xbox looks like: One thing I’ve always been really good at is charactures. The secret involves looking at a person or item picking out unique parts and then emphasizing them (my team always won in Pictionary and Win, Lose or Draw). When looking at that Xbox, I think the key features are: black, green circle on top, roughly rectangular. After searching Google, I’ve… (read more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}