{"id":5586,"date":"2014-09-02T13:40:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T13:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.com\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2014-09-03T01:46:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T01:46:07","slug":"crayola-crayon-cake-back-to-school-collab-with-socraftastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/?p=5586","title":{"rendered":"Crayola Crayon Cake (Back to School) Collab with Socraftastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s September 2, and we’re headed back to school!\u00a0 To celebrate, my friend Sarah from Socraftastic<\/a>, and I decided to make a crayon collab!\u00a0 Over on Socraftastic, Sarah is going to show you how to make Crayon Lipstick!\u00a0 Here, I’m doing a Crayon Cake demonstration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I got to meet Sarah a year ago when we were both chosen to participate in a creator program that YouTube was running at YouTube Space LA.\u00a0 She is one of the sweetest girls you’ll ever meet, and she is incredibly talented!\u00a0 I’m so lucky she let me join her in this Back To School video!\u00a0 Make sure you head over to her channel and subscriber to her.<\/p>\n

The only “challenging” part of making this cake is getting the correct colours, and the piping of straight lines.\u00a0 I had to do a lot of straightening once we were done filming!\u00a0 I have to get better at piping on an angle that the camera demands.\u00a0 That’s a behind the scenes secret you’ve just been told!<\/p>\n

To get the correct colours of the Crayola box, I had to go and get a box of crayons to be my subject.\u00a0 You’d think a kindergarten teacher would have crayons in all corners of her house, but not me!\u00a0 In my opinion, there is not a perfect science to matching colours.\u00a0 Along the way, you start to learn what colour makes what, but it’s mostly a lot of experimentation.\u00a0 To match the orangey yellow buttercream of the Crayola box, I used mostly yellow gel paste, and a few drops of orange gel paste until the colour was a match against the box.\u00a0 To make the dark green, I used regular green gel paste, and added drops of black until I had the dark colour.\u00a0 You could get away with making yours with a bit less black than I did though, as it looks really dark against the yellow contrast.<\/p>\n