I love love LOVE two things best when cake decorating- a fun cake design and making a cake for someone I know! This cake had both! When Jesseca from One Sweet Appetite asked if I could make a cake for a going away party she was throwing I said of course! When she said she wanted a white trash trailer I about DIED! I was SO excited!!!
The cake is the trailer… everything else is fondant… but the details MAKE it! I wish I’d taken a better picture of underneath the trailer… I made little fondant cinder blocks to cover the dowels holding the cake up! I’m SO in love with it all!
I took two layers of 8 inch chocolate cake and “glued” them together with chocolate Ganache. Then placed it on the side and started carving! Jesseca choose the tear drop shape (or canned ham) trailer! Then covered it with whipped Ganache.
I covered it with grey fondant and used a pizza cutter to create lines on the sides of the cake. then “glued” on the details with vodka (or clear vanilla if you’d rather). This is when it got late and I forgot to take more pictures- (although I instagramed a few…) dang it… but I sprayed it silver and hand created all the rest of the details out of fondant.
See? Silver… The fondant board is just covered with brown fondant and then to create the dirt look/feel I added Cocoa! In fact I used the cocoa on my fingers to rub along the details of the cake (once the silver was dry) and give it a “dirty” look! After that it’s all about the details… tires, rocks, stairs, curtains…
I created an aged, broken down, tufted couch (more cocoa for dirt) in this “lovely” color- going for an out of date aged couch… (and crumpled beer can on the ground)
My favorite pieces is probably this broken folding chair! Actually my broken version broke, so it’s TWICE broken, how white trash is THAT!
I made a TV for our trailer dwellers… I wanted to BREAK it, but I couldn’t figure how the best way to do that, so I added aged rabbit ears instead.
And of course our random, long grass/weeds around our mounds of “dirt” and old broken down tires… (and more dirt)
The TOILET… one of the few requests Jesseca gave me, that and the random beer cans around. I made 4 different toilets trying to get it JUST right. I’m dying I’m so in love with how it turned out!
I love my trailer cake and I hope you all do to!
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leelagovind
September 13, 2012 at 8:16 amwonderful trailer cake!i cant imagine it s a cake..how can she feel to cut it?ashlee you have nimble fingers ..appreciate you..
Ashlee
September 14, 2012 at 9:58 amThank you so much! She did say it was hard to cut into!
Jen
September 13, 2012 at 12:29 pmThis is AWESOME!!!!!! What a fun cake!!!!
Ashlee
September 14, 2012 at 10:00 amThanks so much! It was SUPER fun to design and make!
Jesseca
September 13, 2012 at 1:11 pmIt was SO perfect!! Everyone loved it, and it was really really hard to actually cut and eat it. I’ll have to find out what chocolate cake recipe you use. It’s SO yummy!
Ashlee
September 14, 2012 at 10:12 amIt was SUCH a fun order to make! And fun to make something for a friend! I’ll email you the cake recipe! Thanks for sharing your red velvet with me!
Jess from Cox's Corner
September 13, 2012 at 1:13 pmI love it! Your cakes are so fun!
Ashlee
September 14, 2012 at 10:13 amThanks Jess!!! I really really love creating them! It’s so much fun to carve and design such fun creations!
Kara
September 13, 2012 at 1:54 pmThis is hilarious, and so freaking awesome!
Ashlee
September 14, 2012 at 10:15 amThanks Kara! It’s been a long time since we’ve seen each other! I miss you! We need to get together soon!
jani lebaron
September 13, 2012 at 2:05 pmI loved this so much I had to pin it!
Ashlee
September 14, 2012 at 10:15 amThanks so much! I’m glad you like it! I wish I was going to make it to the party tonight so we could officially meet in person!
Kirsten
September 13, 2012 at 2:12 pmI my goodness! I totally love it! You are so talented.
Ashlee
September 14, 2012 at 10:19 amThank you so much! When the subject of the cake is so much fun it’s easy to get creative and really get into the details!
Whitney Allen
September 13, 2012 at 2:32 pmOh my gosh this cake is seriously awesome. Great job!!! Seriously how fun is that!
Ashlee
September 14, 2012 at 10:20 amI agree, SO fun! It makes such a difference in a cake to have a subject that’s so enjoyable!
michelle@somedaycrafts
September 13, 2012 at 5:01 pmYou are so talented! Love this cake!!!!
Ashlee
September 14, 2012 at 10:21 amThanks Michelle! It’s been too long since we’ve seen each other! Glad that work is going so well for you!
Gina
September 13, 2012 at 5:10 pmWOW! This is awesome! Maybe I missed it- how long did this take you? I know when I did my little boys cake, Lightning McQueen- it seemed to take forever! But then again, that was my first cake I had ever decorated by myself… Great job!
Ashlee
September 14, 2012 at 10:23 amI’m kind of a slow decorator since I’m such a perfectionist. The decorating alone (not counting the baking) took about 8 hours? I’m guessing since I don’t actually time myself. I put my kids to bed, and work all night, with a few breaks for food and nursing the baby…
Lucky Red Hen
September 13, 2012 at 5:11 pmI feel like a broken record, but here I go anyway… I LURV your cakes! And if this is what a white trash trailer looks like, I WANT A WHITE TRASH TRAILER 😀
Ashlee
September 14, 2012 at 10:23 amIf you ever need a cake let me know 😉 It turned out pretty darn cute!
Lori Allred
September 14, 2012 at 12:02 amGirl friend you ROCK!! This is amazing and makes me giggle every time I come back to visit it!!
Ashlee
September 14, 2012 at 10:26 amThank you so much! And thanks for the shout out on FB! If you ever need a fun cake for work or anything let me know! I’ve done a few pinterest inspired smash cakes if you want one for your show!
Charlotte
September 14, 2012 at 8:38 amThis is so cute! Honey Boo-Boo would love it.
Ashlee
September 14, 2012 at 10:27 amThank you so much! my mom died, she and my dad are living in a trailer right now and she now wants me to make one for her!
Paul
September 14, 2012 at 9:57 amThat is a amazingly cool cake. You are great at making cake.
Ashlee
September 14, 2012 at 10:31 amthank you so much! Having such a fun subject to make a cake on makes it that much more fun to design! I love creating and doing it!
Kimberly Curtis
September 14, 2012 at 10:09 amLove this!!! We drive by a little trailer community once in a while, and this is about how it looks with about 10 more trailers scattered in random spots. 🙂 and probably a few more broken things layin around.
This made me laugh!!! You are really really creative!!!
Ashlee
September 14, 2012 at 10:33 amHA! It depends on the trailer park, some are nice and some are… well this! I was going to add a clothing line, but ran out of time! Making the broken couch and chairs was SO much fun! I’ve totally driven by THIS trailer park before 😉
jani lebaron
September 14, 2012 at 11:21 amNext time! 🙂
Ashlee
September 18, 2012 at 1:44 amfor sure!
julia
May 4, 2013 at 3:50 amGreat job! It’s very creative! Must have been fun to make
Ashlee
May 6, 2013 at 8:26 pmIt really was! one of the most fun of all the cakes I’ve done!