Step One: Planning the Cake

Sophia's birthday was yesterday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOPHIA!! She asked me to make her a cake for her "road trip" party next week. So I talked to her tonight and we decided on vanilla cake, dyed red with chocolate icing then covered in chocolate fondant. Then she said she wanted Elmo and sparkles. So, I've decided that I am going to make the Elmo out of color flow icing, to do that I had to find a picture that would work. The only one that I could find was colored and I needed it to be black and white, well really only because we don't have a color printer here at home so I didn't want to waste all of the black ink. So I pulled it into photoshop and pulled the color out. So, this is step one, planning. I printed out two Elmos because you know if I only make one it will break. I picked up the chocolate fondant and Amy was nice enough to give me her color flow icing powder. Now, how to dye the cake red without it tasting funny?? Hmmm.. I think I may need to do a little more research.