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Take Flight Cake Ideas
Take flight and let your imagination soar with ideas for flight-themed cakes. This broad category has many cake design possibilities based on everything that flies. Choose a central focus for your cake before beginning and make your plans from that design choice. Cake decorating supplies are sold online, in craft stores and in baking stores. Add this to my Recipe Box.
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Plane Crazy
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Bake a cake with a plane on top for pilots, flying enthusiasts or plane-lovers. Use your choice of round, square or rectangular cake as the base, and add a 3-dimensional, edible airplane on top. Use cake scraps from leveling the cake held together with frosting or snack cakes such as Twinkies to make the fuselage of the plane. Pipe icing on either side of the main plane body to create the wings. If you do not have the skills to make an edible airplane to top the cake, use a constructed balsa wood glider or a toy plane as a cake topper. Be sure to write "Take Flight" on the side or top of the cake in icing.
Lovebirds Cake
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Planes are not the only flying object to serve as the centerpiece for a "Take Flight" themed cake. Lovebirds can be used for a romantic cake or these feathered creatures can also encourage a bird-watcher to "Take Flight" with his goals. Place a stencil with a bird on top of an iced cake and cover the stencil with a contrasting color of icing. Gently lift the stencil to leave behind the iced image of a bird. Use sugar letters to write "Take Flight" if desired.
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Butterfly Cake
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Butterflies are colorful flying creatures, too. These insects are appreciated by those of all ages. Creating a butterfly cake requires cutting two round cakes in half and trimming each half into the shape of the four parts of the butterfly's two wings. The bottom half of each wing should be smaller than the top half. Frost the cake after arranging the cake halves with your choice of frosting and decorate it with colorful candies such as gumdrops or jelly beans. Licorice or pretzel rods stand in for the butterfly's antennae.
Hot Air Balloon Cake
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Take flight in a hot air balloon as Dorothy did in "The Wizard of Oz." To make a cake with the round shape of a balloon, bake the batter in an oven-proof bowl instead of a cake pan. Use frosting to glue together wafer cookies in a cube shape to make the balloon's basket. Cover the half-sphere cake with icing on a cake board and place the basket below it on the board. Connect the two with licorice ropes to serve as the ropes between the balloon and basket. Use frosting to attach the ends of the licorice to the wafer cookie basket. Wrap another piece of licorice halfway around the width of the top cake for the central connecting rope. Add animal cookies inside the basket for "riders," if desired. Use candy to decorate the rest of the balloon.
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