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?
