When I made my first rainbow loom bracelet, I proudly posted a picture on Instagram, showing off my ability to rainbow loom. \u00a0I was quickly put in my place and was told I was not rainbow looming, but in fact was using a Cray-Z loom. \u00a0I had NO idea what the comment meant. \u00a0I had to research to learn that I was using a different brand from rainbow loom. \u00a0How embarrassing! \u00a0I was called out my a pre-teen. \u00a0<\/p>\n
In order to make this cake, I first had to research what in the world a Rainbow Loom even was. \u00a0I had heard of it in passing, but in order to FULLY understand what I would be making, I went out and bought one. \u00a0I was pretty much instantly addicted. \u00a0Making these bracelets reminded me so much of making friendship bracelets from when I was younger. \u00a0It 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Once I had established the idea behind how to loom, I was ready to build it into a cake. \u00a0Or so I thought! \u00a0I tried a couple different versions of this, like a cupcake cake for example and it just wasn’t working for me. \u00a0I went back to the drawing board . . . or looming board . . . and started again with a rectangle cake. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Making the elastics from ribbons of sour belts is a little bit time consuming, but easy. \u00a0The most difficult part was being patient enough to not shove the candy directly into the flame of a candle to speed the process up. \u00a0Trust me, it doesn’t! \u00a0It just burns the candy and leaves the ends black. \u00a0I tried using licorice ropes, and regular licorice to make the elastics, but I didn’t have any luck with them. \u00a0What I also liked about the sour belts was the fact that they provided a number of different colours to work with.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Can you guess what kind of bracelet I was making? \u00a0<\/p>\n