Tractor with Cheese

 My Nephew asked for a Tractor pulling a wagon filled with CHEESE!  He loves' Cheese so that is what he got...  The tractor is made from rice krispie treats and covered with fondant.  Here he is enjoying some of his cheese...

Such a cute Pirate!!! 

Tractor Birthday

My nephew turned 2 years old this month. Since he can't tell me what kid of cake he wanted his mom and dad choose the theme of tractors.  This kids loves tires and anything that has a motor, really...  I attempted to make a 3-D shaped tractor.  It didn't work out quite like I had hoped- One of my nieces said it looked like a "race-car-tractor".  O.K.  I'll take that... She also told me I was "The best cake maker in the whole world"... O.K.  I'll take that too... :)

Can you see by the pans below how I would use them to make a tractor?

Lindsey helped me "glue" some tires on...

 The rest of the gang helped as well...

Blowing out the candles...

Everyone got into helping...

Here is the birthday boy chowing down on one of his tires...

Super Cute birthday boy! 

Tractor Pull

A big happy birthday to my brother! We had a nice get together at his house to celebrate. I couldn't decide what to put on the cake. It was between Fred Rahmer, his favorite sprint car driver or a tractor... I couldn't find the right picture of the sprint car to replicate so I went with the tractor. I found a design on cakecentral that I liked and essentially reproduced it using a frozen buttercream transfer for the tractor. The cake was chocolate with strawberry filling in between the layers. I think I might have cooked it a little too long, it was a little dry but overall o.k.

Here are some additional pics:

The picture:



The transfer ready for the freezer. I topped it off with green to give it a little more strength


My nieces, playing nicely on the swing set


There was also an ice cream cake- yum, yum. They didn't have enough candles so they added his age 3+4=7 and used a number 5 candle on the ice cream cake and these two singles on the tractor cake to make 7 candles... Get it? If I do the math this year I have 9 candles on my cake... How about you?


For those that follow my house progress, the white barn in the right corner of this picture is the pole barn where my brother built me my shed...