The new fitness craze... Crossfit!

Hi everyone,

Now if you're a fitness freak you've probably heard of this thing called 'Crossfit'. Ask those crazy crossfitters out there and they will go on and on about what it is, means and how much better it is than a gym.. blah blah. I'm definitely no fitness freak and I've tried my hand at crossfitesque workouts but in the end it just wasn't for me.

What does crossfit have to do with cake you might ask? Well a crossfit themed cake of course! My cousin's now fiancee is one of these crazy crossfitters who lives, eats and breathes crossfit.  He started off as a personal trainer in your regular gym but crossfit took over his life and he now works as a certified crossfit trainer. Clearly, there was only one theme that would suffice for his 30th birthday cake...

Introducing to you my most pinned cake on Pinterest!
Ok so 8 pins isn't much but still pretty happy :P Also quality of the pinterest picture is really bad so here's a good one!

Crossfit Cake

This cake was made back in January 2013. It is a kettlebell sitting on a tyre with a skipping rope draped around.

The Kettlebell

The kettlebell was made by baking my cake in the wilton ball pan. The handle was made from rice krispy treats. It was my first time using rice krispy treats (I used Kellogs LCM's and squashed them together). I coated it in chocolate ganache and then covered in black fondant. There was a wire running through the handle so that I could curve the handle to my desired shape and also to insert the handle into the kettlebell cake.  Covering the ball part of the kettlebell was easy until it came to the bottom! Tips for next time - have the ball sitting on a small jar or can so the fondant can overhang and I can smooth the ball down the sides a little easier. Basically I want the ball to be sitting on something tall but with a smaller diameter to the base of the ball.. get it???? Haha, hard to explain but if you've had the same problem I think you would understand.

The Tyre

The tyre was kept simple. Just because I was too lazy to make it 3d with the indents in the middle. But thanks to my lovely boyfriend who helped me cut out the treads. He even measured them out so that they would be even but by the end of it we had done half of it by freehand. 

The Cake Board

First time painting on fondant, and I loved it! I am so pleased with how the wood effect turned out. I used vodka with some brown gel food colouring and used a wide bristled brush. I scored the fondant before painting and once one layer was dry I went over some bits with more 'paint' so that there were different colours of brown for the final effect. 

The birthday boy was very pleased with the cake. It was a simple dark chocolate mud cake (my go to fail safe recipe) for both tyre and kettlebell. Funnily enough, the hit of the day... The handle! Everyone loved the taste of the rice krispy treats, I guess it brought up a lot of good childhood memories!

Thanks for reading
Dee