Creative Cakes - Car Shaped Cookie Cake

Along with decorations for the party,

I was nominated to make the

birthday boy's cake.

He is totally into racing

(not the Nascar kind, 

but the him behind the wheel kind).

He is also not a huge

fan of cake...

Funfetti is his favorite,

but 

only if he has to pick a cake.

So at the encouragement of his mom,

I decided to do a cookie cake

in the shape of a car.

EEEEEK!!

I have done quite a few interesting cakes

over the past 9 years

of making my kids cakes.

But NEVER a shaped cookie cake!!!

I purchased a roll of cookie dough.

This was going to be challenging enough

I was not fighting with homemade cookie dough.

I cut down a piece of parchment (sort of)

to fit onto my cookie sheet.

Then rolled out the dough to roughly the size of the pan...

and did something I don't do!

I free-hand cut out the shape of a car.

I can't free-hand

ANYTHING!

I forgot to take a picture before I threw it in the oven,

so here is what it looked like IN the oven!

I made little lines in the cookie where I thought 

the doors, windows and wheels would go.

I had NO idea how long to bake it.

I didn't want it too crunchy nor too soft.

I pulled it out when it looked and smelled

like a cooked cookie.

(no idea how long or what temp I cooked it on either-

not much of a "recipe" is it??)

Removing it from the pan was the hard part.

As you can see, if you look closely,

it cracked a little.

Then came the decorating part.

What to do???

I consulted my master cake friend.

She had a couple of great ideas,

but I was worried about

"messing it up".

I thought about covering the entire cookie in icing.

I thought about lots of colors and design work.

I thought about messing it up...

So I settled on the basic outline,

his name,

and age.

Not the best presentation, I know.

I wasn't willing to move it again,

nor take it off of the parchment paper.

So I made due with what I had,

and I had to transport it over an hour away.

I was happy with how it turned out.