Well, the cake turned out, uh, differently than I had imagined.<\/p>\n

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Some things went well. I think the side “heat sinks” came out pretty good. I used a Christmas cookie covered in green icing for the center “Xbox Jewel”. Tootsie Rolls became joystick ports, and SweetTarts became buttons. I didn’t worry about the colors — I wanted them to look like candy.<\/p>\n

What went wrong. Well, for starters, I wasn’t able to find black shoestring licorice, which is what I had planned on using for much of the design. I ended up carving directly into the icing which, while it worked, wasn’t what I had planned. The other thing that went wrong was the white icing I bought. I had planned to write “XBOX” in white across the cookie and across the front to make it more authentic looking, but the white icing came out so sloppy that I had to scrap it. Susan saved the day by picking up some candy letters which I used. Had to buy two packs, of course (two “X”s).<\/p>\n

The combination of the black icing and the camera flash makes the cake’s surface look a little funky, but for a quick job, it turned out okay. Most importantly, Mason thought it was “awesome,” and that’s good enough for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, the cake turned out, uh, differently than I had imagined. Some things went well. I think the side “heat sinks” came out pretty good. I used a Christmas cookie covered in green icing for the center “Xbox Jewel”. Tootsie Rolls became joystick ports, and SweetTarts became buttons. I didn’t worry about the colors — I wanted them to look like candy. What went wrong. Well, for starters, I wasn’t able to find black shoestring licorice, which is what I had planned on using for much of the design. I ended up carving directly into the icing which, while it… (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-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","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=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}