My 11 year old daughter asked for a Hunger Games Cake that included aspects of all the books: an arrow, a mockingjay, the lottery, the girl on fire. Wow! I did some research on line and combined ideas that I found.
Hunger Games Cake Directions
- I baked 2 layer cakes, 10 inch and 6 inch, so I would have room to include, “may the odds be ever in your favor” around the top of the bottom layer.
- Each cake was covered in black fondant, which is not very forgiving. Luckily, I could cover up the flaws with the flames.
- I used a flame pattern that I enlarged twice to get different sized flames.
- I traced the flames onto red, yellow, and orange fondant, and cut them out with an Exacto knife. It took about 2 days to get everything traced and cut.
- I stored the finished flames between waxed paper with a thin coating of Crisco to keep them pliable.
- I then blended the fondant colors together and used the knife to cut out the letters of her name.
- I knew that I didn’t have the skills to make a believable mockingjay, so I found a raven at the craft store (it was close to Halloween) and covered it in gold spray paint.
- I knew I needed a light arrow that wouldn’t pull at the cake and fondant. I used the wide bubble straws and attached an arrow made of craft foam, then spray painted them gold. The different materials covered in spray paint gave a nice effect.
- I had planned to use the flaming candles that shoot up about a foot above the cake, but her party was at a bowling alley, so that would have been a fire hazard.
- I found gold “1” sparklers and thought that would look cool on top, but again, a fire hazard. Instead, I found long golden candles for the top. Not as dramatic, but they were pretty.
My daughter and her friends LOVED the cake. The parents asked me where I bought it. ;) It was a lot of work, but seeing her face and her excitement made it all worth it.
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