Halo Theme Birthday Cake

Every now and then I do a cake instead of cupcakes—this is ok for me! So this time around I was asked by my first paying client to create a Halo themed cupcake for her son’s 12^th birthday!  So not being a player myself, I began researching photos and ideas. I came across a fondant version of “Master Chief” with his gun pointing it at the “Happy Birthday”. Volia! I found my idea!

Now I’m not the best with fondant right now so I decided an alternative route: my almond bark and candy wafers you melt down and mold into what ever you desire. I drew the master chief (and did pretty well for just looking at the inspired design) and taped wax paper over it, melted the candy wafers and chocolate into separate bags and began creating. I started outlining first; to achieve this properly, the tinier the slit at the corner of your bag, the finer the line. As I worked my way through the character, I filled in the shapes. When I was finished, I did a tiny bit of white almond bark for the gun and mask. His mask is yellow and I got creative and did yellow nerds over the white. After I was done I set him in the fridge.

Now the cake flavor was yellow and I used the white whipped frosting. The background was going to be black with a sun (like on the cover of the Halo Reach game). The coloring of the sun worked out great; the black turned out purple. So I had to rush out and buy some already black frosting in a tube. It worked and did its job thankfully! After doing the background, I placed Master Chief on top and wrote in the appropriate wording. It was a success and looked awesome!