How To Decorate A Cake Like A Trampoline

For my little i's 7th birthday, he wanted to invite friends to a party at Xtreme Air which is a trampoline park. I was game – nosotros tend to "outsource" birthday parties every other year, so decided I would let them do all of the work but I would however bake the cake.

Of class we headed over to Pinterest to get some ideas for a cake and decided to make a trampoline cake! On the scale of cakes I take attempted to tackle over the years, this was on the easier side. Deport in mind, baking and cake decorating is certainly not my strong suit, definitely like to cook more than broil! But, the boys really seem to enjoy the cakes I bake and both helped me with this one quite a scrap.

Challenge #one – my son wanted red frosting. I e'er use the Wilton Gel Icing Color, but carmine can normally prove to require many jars of it! Goose egg a 2d quick trip to Michael'due south couldn't solve though! I used four cans of Betty Crocker Whipped Frosting Fluffy White – only would take been fine using three.

Challenge #two – the Wilton Saccharide Sheet The Married man purchased for me to utilize as the trampoline was completely stale out. Nothing a 3rd quick trip to Michael'south couldn't solve! Note to Hubbys purchasing carbohydrate sheets in the future, make certain they feel pliable before purchasing them!

Once I got past these, it was a pretty quick process. This is a two-layer cake, using a 13″ x nine″ pan – but I put two Betty Crocker Super Moist French Vanilla block mixes in each pan.

Later frosting the entire block, I cutting the sugar sheet down a little bit and placed information technology on top. You lot want to make certain you lot have fresh frosting so that it acts like a glue to the saccharide canvas. I placed the cake in the refrigerator at that point for about xxx minutes to permit that set.

Adjacent, I saved ane tin of frosting and split information technology between two bowls. In 1 I mixed with bluish icing gel and in the other, a fiddling bit of black icing gel (to create the silver/grey color for the springs). I piped the blueish trampoline padding on kickoff, and then let fix in the refrigerator over again for most 30 minutes, and so did the springs.

A few days prior, I took photos of my son jumping on our trampoline – of course you lot could take these with the child continuing on the ground too. I cut out the photos and used a 16-gauge aluminum wire to create the springs by wrapping them around a mark and so I taped them to the back of the photo.

My older son fabricated the 7 "bluecoat" the day before in summer camp and wanted it to be part of the cake too – it was the perfect addition!

The cake was a big hit with the party goers and the staff at the trampoline park! They even asked if they could take a pic to post on their social media sites!

I had a lot of fun making it and the boys both did a smashing chore as my administration!