When I made my first rainbow loom bracelet, I proudly posted a picture on Instagram, showing off my ability to rainbow loom.  I was quickly put in my place and was told I was not rainbow looming, but in fact was using a Cray-Z loom.  I had NO idea what the comment meant.  I had to research to learn that I was using a different brand from rainbow loom.  How embarrassing!  I was called out my a pre-teen.  

In order to make this cake, I first had to research what in the world a Rainbow Loom even was.  I had heard of it in passing, but in order to FULLY understand what I would be making, I went out and bought one.  I was pretty much instantly addicted.  Making these bracelets reminded me so much of making friendship bracelets from when I was younger.  It took this old bird a while to figure out the directions and how to “pick” the elastics, but once that was out of the way, I was a bracelet making machine. 

Once I had established the idea behind how to loom, I was ready to build it into a cake.  Or so I thought!  I tried a couple different versions of this, like a cupcake cake for example and it just wasn’t working for me.  I went back to the drawing board . . . or looming board . . . and started again with a rectangle cake.  

Making the elastics from ribbons of sour belts is a little bit time consuming, but easy.  The most difficult part was being patient enough to not shove the candy directly into the flame of a candle to speed the process up.  Trust me, it doesn’t!  It just burns the candy and leaves the ends black.  I tried using licorice ropes, and regular licorice to make the elastics, but I didn’t have any luck with them.  What I also liked about the sour belts was the fact that they provided a number of different colours to work with. 

Can you guess what kind of bracelet I was making?  

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