Any ideas how to make this cake look edible?

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I promised my little boy a car themed 5 cake. I had a practice run and now I'm panicking 😫
What can I do to make it look better before I start putting cars etc on it?! Help!!!!!

That's amazing well done! Your little boy is going to love it!

Brilliant!! He's going to love it!

You really pulled it back from a wreck- well done! Otherwise you could have made it a ''car crash''!

That looks amazing!

That's great!

The practice one looked delicious and the finished item is absolutely wonderful!

That's so good OP that I'm now wondering if you bake for a living and this thread is cunning stealth advising 😂 Let's hope that I've just spent too long on Mumsnet! Hope your boy has a great birthday 🎂

Make a ganache and pour it over on a wire rack to smooth the icing?

Hahahaha lol I might have thought this too!

You did a great job op well done

Awww, that’s amazing OP. Well done and happy birthday to your little one.

Please let us know what he thinks of it😍

That is great. Well done, hope he loves it.

I'd stick Cadbury fingers all round the edge vertically.
Then very carefully pipe or roll sausages to make white stripes down the middle for road markings and top with real toy cars.

I'm in the middle of my own cake decorating for my youngest a 4 layer lemon drizzle splatter cake - ime they always look a bit (sometimes very!) ropey until the end when it pulls together!

That's brilliant, thanks for updating! Hope he had a fab birthday too.

You've really set yourself a standard for next year now 😉

Looks fabulous OP! I should have RTFT 🤣.

You absolutely smashed that.

Genius!

I bet your little boy was over the moon with that. Looks brilliant.

Make some grey buttercream and smooth it over the top. Make some royal icing and mark white lines like road markings along the middle of the grey road. Make some green butter cream and using a piping bag to add grass around the bottom of the cake. Then add the toy cars.

This is incredible! I bet he will remember it forever. I still have fond memories of a rainbow sprite cake my mum made about 40 years ago.