Skylanders portal cake

Homemade Skylanders Portal Cake!

Happy Birthday to my beautiful daughter who will be 8 years old! She adores Skylanders! In fact, she is super excited about the new Skylanders Swap Force that’s coming out too! She loves Cynder the best! So, I ended up making her a Skylanders Portal Cake with a Cynder character on top!

Here are a bunch of Skylanders Portal Cake ideas:

Normally I post easy homemade projects but only the cake on this one was easy. The Cynder is a whole different story. That baby was difficult! If you are a beginner and want to make this cake I highly suggest you make the portal cake but just put a Skylander Game piece on top or a Skylanders figure on the top piece instead of trying to make your own.

The cake is a homemade cake with butter cream frosting and covered in fondants. I used the white fondant and I purchased the black gel for color it.

The Cynder Skylander is made out of Gum paste. It hardens are it dries. Once it dried, I ended up using the gel paints watered down with vodka to paint the pieces that needed painting. You never want to use water. The alcohol in the vodka will evaporate. I didn’t have a mold of any kind for Cynder. It was created using molding tools and bowls to shape the wings as they dried.

Here are a few of the tools I used:

Here are a few photos to show you the process:

I added color to the gum paste to start making Cynder.

I molded out the Cynder body with my hands.

I shaped the wings and placed them in the curve of a bowl to help hold it’s shape as it hardened.

Just a regular round cake that was frosted with butter cream icing (Yummy!) and then covered with fondant in the shape and design of the Skylanders Portal device.