I made this Wrestling Cake Design for a friend’s son’s 10th birthday since he was a big wrestling fan. I did a lot of research on-line, looking at every possible wrestling cake I could find for inspiration. I tried to incorporate features from several different cakes to make it my own and not a direct copy of someone else’s.
This cake was made with 3 10″ square pans at 2″ deep. I really wanted to use fondant but an experiment a few nights before using the black fondant didn’t work very well so I decided to go with regular icing and use the paper towel method of smoothing it out. I did use the Wilton black dye, took quite a bit, but the color came out pretty rich. The stars on the side were made with the Wilton candy melts and star mold.
The white mat on top was made with a homemade marshmallow white fondant and cut to size. I piped on black icing around the edges of it since the black icing did fade through a bit around the edges. The ring was made using dowel rods and a red roping I found at a fabric store.
The wrestling characters were bought at Walmart and luckily had small holes in the bottom of their feet, so I was able to use a skinny dowel rod and hot glue them into the feet to use for stakes. The stakes later released out easily with no damage to the wrestlers!
Fabulous job! All of the ideas really help.
Thanks! I’m glad you like it!
thats really cool but i made all my cake edible! i used pretzels for the rods and red lickrish for the rope..it was really cool! and they ate it all!
I am making a grooms cake for a DIE HARD WWF fan ..I was wondering what options you thought would be best for the ropes around the ring? I have been debating between.. fondant and gumpaste.. but I question the stability/ fragileness of it… I am not worried too much about edibleness but more of character/realism…Any ideas!?
One person above mentioned she made her entire cake edible…I would have loved to have done that, but after looking at picture after picture I found that the vast majority of people that used edible roping had too much sagging for my taste, which is why I chose to use real rope instead, and since my customer was paying for it to look good and didn’t care if it was entirely edible or not, I chose to try to go for the tighter look. Plus I knew I would be traveling to deliver the cake and didn’t want to risk the movement causing the rope to sag anymore. I’m sure it’s possible to get it tight using a food lace, but with limited experience with it, I chose the safest route being it was my first cake I did for someone outside of my family.
Hi angela! i absolutely love this wrestling cake! So does my soon-to-be 7 yr old who has put me up to the challenge of making it for his b-day next week! 2 questions:
what is the paper towel method and what did you attach the stars with? Thanks so much!!!!!
Great cake. I am making one for my grandson. What did you use to paint the dial rods black.