Indiana Jones Cake

by Jere
(Chambersburg, PA)

Indiana Jones Cake

This Indiana Jones cake was for my youngest son, since Indiana Jones is his favorite character, we just had to do a cake shaped like the famous Indy. I started by purchasing a Wilton cake pan named Lil Cowboy.

After my cake had been baked and cooled, I used white decorators icing to completely cover the cake. You have to do this because a lot of the background is not covered with Indy's body.

I had purchased a pack of fondant icing that was pre-colored in different flesh tones. I used the light tan / flesh colored fondant - rolled it out and placed it over the face area in on the cake. Using a tiny bit of gray icing (gray tint mixed with white icing) - I gave Indiana "scruffies" or whiskers on his face - as he is getting a bit older than when he started his crusade - so we had to make him look older.

Using brown icing (chocolate) I piped in his eyes - using tip #3 - which I made wet to look glossy - and using white I made the inside of the eyes using the same tip #3.

His mouth and nose were made of the same flesh fondant - just shaped a bit different. Then using the same fondant color I rolled out his hands and shaped his fingers.

His left hand I had to shape around his whip - which is from the same package of fondant - just a brown and tan mixed together and rolled into a whip and coiled around to look as though he is twirling it in the air.

For his jacket and hat - I used brown chocolate icing - this was just a regular store bought icing - but decorators icing can be used also.

I used star tip #16 for all of his clothing. The strap on the hat was tip #12 - and I just pulled the tip from side to side on the hat. I did the same with the bottom of his jacket.

The inside shirt was made the same color as flesh - using peach (just a tiny bit) tint mixed with white icing - and piped with the star tip #16. The pants were made using a tan tint - mixed with white icing and the star tip #16 was also used.

For Indy's shoes, I just used a regular spatula and chocolate icing and just smoothed it over and wet it down to give it a glossy look.

Overall the cake was a big hit - the boys couldn't believe that Nick actually had an Indiana Jones cake!