Isaiah
Here is a fun fact about me you don’t know. I have eighteen nieces and nephews with one more due to arrive in May. Isn’t that crazy? The youngest of them is Isaiah. He is such a great kid and I am so proud to be his Auntie! Yesterday my sister and brother-in-law hosted a fabulous party celebrating his 1 yr Birthday with 150 of their closest friends and family. Part of my birthday gift to my sweet nephew was to make a small birthday cake he could eat all to himself. When trying to come up with ideas on what type of cake to make I had a difficult time trying to “figure it out”. There was no theme for the party other than the colors yellow and grey. I also wanted to come up with a design complimenting the style of Isaiah and his parents. My nephew has the cutest Converse All-Star sneakers and when I saw them last week I instantly knew I had found my inspiration. I asked if I could bring his shoes home with me and from there I started to make mental notes of how I would re-create them.
Actual Converse Shoes
The cake version had to be a realistic (as possible) replica of his shoes to scale. I textured fondant to make the shoes have a canvas type of appearance. I painted edible silver metallic paint for lace eyelets and used food coloring pens to write Isaiah’s name and to draw a black line around the base of the shoe. I tried to make some of the seams look frayed and the cake itself were 3 cupcakes (per shoe) bonded together by buttercream frosting and carved to look like Isaiah’s shoe.
After attaching the last eyelet I took a step back and just beamed with happiness. The shoes were better than I could have hoped for. I quickly took a picture with my phone and sent it to my sister. She texted me immediately afterward sharing her excitement about the finished cake. By the time I cleaned up the kitchen I was so tired I accidentally grabbed the cakes believing they were the real shoes and stayed up a little longer fixing whatever it was that needed fixing as a result.. oops!
Isaiah tearing into his birthday cake
My sister sent me this picture of Isaiah eating his birthday shoe this morning. I’m told there is video as well and I can’t wait to see it. Anyway, I wanted to share with you a clever idea for a kids birthday cake. I plan on doing a more detailed tutorial of how I made this cake in the future eventually, stay tuned!
The cutest cake ever made, that is all:)
Hi!
You are so talented! Do you do baby shower ice cream cakes? My daughter is having a shower in July… I would like to see some of your ideas! Thank you… Janie
Those are awesome!
Cutest cake ever!
Love how you took an everyday thing but something meaningful to Isaiah/parents and replicated it so well I would have picked up the cake by mistake too! Really special, and a really nice Auntie! Look forward to seeing how you put it together.
By far the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. Brilliant.
You take the cake! Lovely original idea, and so very personalized. Great job, Alice!
These are adorable; just like the real thing… but I bet they taste a lot better 😀
This is AWESOME! I would have cried with pride if I was the one who made it. I saw Isaiah’s note to his Auntie Alice too, so funny and sweet! 🙂
You did an AMAZING job on these shoes!!! Wow. I wish I had half as much talent as you. Happy birthday to sweet, little Isaiah! I hope you can share the video! He’s too cute.
Alice … amazing! I love it. I so want to learn how to work with fondant! Not that I have patience to ever make anything but cut out flowers! 🙂
I can’t believe you MADE this, you are sooo seriously creative and talented! You are someone I truly look up to and admire!! My nephew wore white converse sneakers with a grey suit for his 1 year old birthday so this totally reminded me of that!!
Alice, you have done it again. Blown me away with another fantastic post. I first looked at the photo when I came on the site, and said, “Sneakers? What is Alice up to, now?” Then I read the title, and had to read on.
I seriously thought that the sneaker replica was real. I honestly don’t know how you do it! You are one busy person. Taking care of your kids, cooking, baking, blogging, doing other chores, writing, and then making this cake! Alice, you are really someone that I look up to because I can relate to you in so many ways.
Anyway, I am not going to get all gooshy in public. I’ll just commend you for an excellent job, and for being a great auntie! 🙂
Great post!
It’s so cute. I and My children love it .Thank you for sharing.
OMG! Found you on foodgawker. These might be the most amazing things I have ever seen. Great job! I am wearing my grey converse today!
Really? Could you just be anymore talented? Those are amazing! You have spectacular skill. Can’t let my kids see this or they’ll think they’ve been missing out, ha ha.
Wow, 18 and counting!….and, what an amazing creation! Your nephew, Isaiah, is just precious 😉
Oh. My. Goodness. It’s a Chuckcake.
You’re incredible.
Oh this is spectacular!! You did amazing with the cake 🙂
That is incredible!
Your creativity and talent blow me away—seriously!
You are so talented! Just the idea alone to use the shoes as inspiration for the cake is wonderful. But then you made them look like they could slip right on your feet. So cute!
Alice, you are so creative! WOW! I can completely believe you when you said you mistook the cake for the real one! It is just SO good! PERFECT aunt!
I’m awestruck! What a lucky boy Isaiah is. I’ve been eyeing those real converse for a while, too – they’re cute on their own as well 🙂
Holy cow Alice, that’s a seriously impressive cake. It reminds me of my old skool yellow, high-tops. Love it!