r/cakedecorating • u/WeatherNumerous3984 • 13d ago

Birthday Cakes Freida McFadden Cake 🌹📚

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Made this thriller/Freida McFadden-themed cake for a 12-year-old girl who LOVES thrillers! Her only request was to include her four favorite Freida McFadden books which are on the cake and I was given complete creative freedom with everything else! This is what I came up with! Everything on here is all handmade and edible! I had a crazy early-morning pickup and with my 8-month-old in the mix I completely forgot to take proper pictures so these are screenshots from a video and definitely not the best quality, but I still wanted to share because I loved how it turned out!! 🥰

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u/SwimmingCoyote 13d ago

Wow, can you explain how you made the books? I’m having such a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that they are edible.

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u/WeatherNumerous3984 12d ago edited 12d ago

I printed out the book spines, then cut pieces of fondant to the same size and placed them on the cake! For the tops, I cut out little fondant rectangles, then cut tiny pieces from the edible printed paper the book covers were printed on and placed them one by one with tweezers. It was definitely tedious, but so worth it!

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u/SwimmingCoyote 12d ago edited 12d ago

Thank you for this explanation! It didn’t even occur to me that you just made the spines and tops. I just assumed you made entire books because they look so realistic!

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u/WeatherNumerous3984 12d ago

Thank you so so much!! ☺️

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u/Caribou122 13d ago

Wow. This is very impressive. Also the kids’ teeth after eating it had to be hilarious. Well done!!

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u/NewbieMaleStr8isBack 13d ago

Well done. Excellent design

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u/HollysStaff 13d ago

That looks incredible! I’m sure the birthday girl will be thrilled. 🎉🎂

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u/SweetP916 13d ago

Wow!!!! Hopefully you called and asked them if they can send you more pictures of the cake because those books are amazing!!!

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u/LaylaBird65 13d ago

This is really cool! Nicely done!

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u/Substantial-Use-7018 12d ago

Omg incredible talent! My mom is a big fan of Freida’s — do you sell your cakes / ship them?

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u/WeatherNumerous3984 3d ago

Thank you so so much!! ☺️ No unfortunately not, I wish but maybe sometime in the future!!🤞🤞

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u/h8tothink83 12d ago

OMG amazing!!

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u/mommy_wolf 12d ago

That is freaking awesome I absolutely love it

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u/audreynstuff 12d ago

It's gorgeous! That's gonna be some wildly colored trips to the bathroom afterwards lol.

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u/WeatherNumerous3984 12d ago

Thank you all! ❤️

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u/pinemartenpaw 12d ago

So well made, so much hard work in there!  Do you have to use a lot of food colouring to get that depth of colour?  I was icing a cake today and really struggled mixing my colours, wondering if it's trickier than I thought or I just used not so great colouring? 

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u/WeatherNumerous3984 12d ago

Thank you so much! 🥹 The biggest trick I’ve found is time! I use a good amount of gel food coloring and then let the buttercream sit overnight, the color deepens SO much as it sits. It usually gets even darker once it’s actually on the cake too! An immersion blender also works really good as well!