For this fun cake two sports are interestingly combined. Nicholas is an avid long boarder. His mom says he is out all day boarding. When it came to celebrating his 11th birthday he requested to go bowling. So for his cake his mom had the fun idea to show him boarding down the bowling alley.
This is the fourth cake I am creating for this family. I was honored to also make these three cakes for them this year.
For this cake the bowling alley is made from vanilla bean cake with white chocolate buttercream carved into shape. Then is was covered in fondant which was painted as I am showing here to create the wood grain effect.
Fondant bowling pins are set up on one end and and a figurine depicting Nicholas on his longboard is on the other end. He is dressed in is favorite skate shorts and orange shirt.