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Exploding Transformers Cake

How-to Secrets Revealed... When you spend as many hours as I did on something you plan to cut up and eat, you better believe I'm going to document it! My son is a HUGE Transformers fan and I wanted to make him an Optimus Prime cake for his seventh birthday. I'm really happy with how it turned out... and it wasn't as hard as it might look. Shhh ... here are my secrets... Exploding Cake  A huge thanks to Rose Bakes for the exploding cake tutorial. It was really easy and I hope to be able to use this technique again sometime. Spirals This is pretty simple, you'll need Duff's Decorative Cake Wire Twists . Take your fondant, roll it like a snake and wrap it around the spirals until it's covered. Cake Topper Transformers that don't transform are no fun at all, so I wasn't interested in getting a "cake topper". Here's the Optimus Prime  toy I used instead. He was a perfect size for the cake top. I jammed toothpicks into his feet/w