Nerd Alert!!! When I got this order, with the laundry list of things that the client wanted on the cake, I had to rack my brain to figure out how to tie everything together without it just looking like a bunch of stuff stuck on a cake. Then I realized the key is the backgrounds. The Tardis & Batman signal both work against a galaxy & night sky with stars. And the Hulk is always smashing through brick walls, & when have you ever seen the TMNT without a brick wall in the background?

So I hand painted both tiers, one in a galaxy fashion in the front, & then airbrushed black around the rest of the cake & splashed with ‘stars’. The bricks are a stencil that I hand-sponged with many layer of color & then airbrushed to tie it all together. All the decor is hand-painted except the ‘Bazinga’ on top, which is an edible image. The 3D Mario Bros. mushrooms are all fondant.

The top tier is Key Largo Lime cake with White Chocolate Lime buttercream filling & white chocolate ganache. The bottom tier is Dark Chocolate cake with Cream Cheese buttercream filling & dark chocolate ganache.

I LOVED doing this cake & had so much fun with it. I’m a bit geeky myself so I was geeking out the entire time. I especially loved painting the backgrounds & seeing the transformation. The cake started out as just plain old white!