Make My Day Camp: Godzilla Cake

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Godzilla Cake

You know how I love to make cake, and I make lots of them - but nothing like this one that Mark and LeDonna made for Dave's birthday last week!! Dave and I were camping for a few days before his birthday and I was talking out loud to M and L wondering how I was going to have time to make his cake and they volunteered to make it for me - and then apparently Mark's active imagination kicked in and he came up with the idea to have a rubber Godzilla stomping thru cake.

We ended up coming home a couple days ahead of time so I was able to assist but pretty much all I did was make 3 batches of buttercream frosting and show LeDonna how to use cake decorating bags and tips. She baked 2 9x13 cakes, one yellow and one chocolate; the chocolate one was frosted with chocolate buttercream and she piped the words on with white frosting - the letters are spaced out so it would be easier to cut the cake into pieces and set around the figurine (like he had busted up the cake on his rampage).

The yellow cake was cut into 4 square pieces that they frosted and stacked on top of each other creating a building. We thinned some buttercream to frost the whole building with a 'crumb coat', put a skewer thru the middle of the top to help it to not tip over, and then put it in the freezer overnight (that makes it easier to frost and not get crumbs in the frosting). The next day while Dave was out for a couple hours we got everything back out from where we hid it and went about assembling the cake. LeDonna frosted the building with gray buttercream and piped on windows in white frosting, then edged along the bottom with green frosting. Set the Godzilla figure by the building, cut cake pieces and stack them around him.

Mark nailed together a couple pieces of scrap wood to look like telephone poles, I threaded cross stitch thread thru the overhead piece resembling the telephone wires; they are held in place on either side of the cake board with duct tape, slanted to make it look like Godzilla caught the wire in his mouth and is pulling the poles down. Someone stuck a candle in his mouth and then we lit another candle placed in a piece of cake (didn't want to light the one in his mouth and melt the figurine haha!)

I took lots of pictures to share with you, and I have to say we had a LOT of laughs putting this together! Hilarious - oh, and the cake tasted great too!

starting the building by stacking cake squares and frosting with a crumb coat

funny side story - We did this over a couple days while Dave was out. We only had 2 hours each day before he'd be back so when he drove away the 3 of us scrambled to get as much done as possible, plus hide what we had completed and washed/put away all the dishes and frosting supplies. Then the next day we repeated hahaha. He never suspected a thing :)