Old man reaches 80

My grandfather, (actually the grandfather of my husband) is the sweetest old man on earth, he has been the one who welcomed me to the Dutch family, with a chocolate letter for Sinterklaas  ( that's what you give children when they are young for the Dutch holiday of sinterklaas, though i was already 28 but who is counting when it comes to chocolate???). 

He also taught me that it is possible to comminucate with no language, lots of candy and some love. 

So Tomorrow he is going to be 80, and i thought it is a great ocassion to make a cake for him, a special one, from sugar dough. 

I was thinking a lot what it can be and since he spent most of his Life on THE Holland-america line cruise ship, New Amsterdam, i thoughtful to would be Nice to make a sea themes cake with The ship and the sea that he loved so dearly.

So here is how i did it:

In THE first pictures you find all THE things you need : 

- a small butter cake, you can use a basic one. 

- a kit of cake decorTing sculpturing tools

- spinkels

- Some cake pop sticks

- Some BBQ woorden sticks.

- white and torqouise rolled fondant. 

- a kit of Food ColorSync for rolled fondant, red, yellow and blue, basis colors.

- candels with nummers on them. 

- what 's not in the picture is a fondant roller, which is used to smooth the dough and thin it.

I started with making The slurfachtig if THE cake with a blue rolled fondant, with Some textures which i made with a special instrument for cake decorating, I also adder a little wave. 

Then i made the body from white fondant, and attached it with a cakepop stick.

I also mixed white fondant with one drop of blue coloring and kneeded it to make the pants/jeans texture .

For th body color, as you can see the little ball for the face, i used one drop of red and one of yellow together with Some white rolled fondant and kneeded carefully. 

 I Made a little face and a nose with anther ball of THE body colored fondant i just created...

Then adder Some ears and the face to the edge of the cakepop stick, while the other end of it Goes through the cake, i gave him a little scarf to.. Hehe...

Later on, i added Some eyes and hands:

With 2 dots of blue Food coloring i made pupils:

Made a grey coloring by mixing together blue red and yellow, and then Some more red. Then added Some grey hair and shoes.

I even gave him glasses...

Added Some gifts around him, after all, It's his birthday cake and it has to be festive...

Since opa was a sailor, i made a cool little cruise ship to Carry his 80 Years candles. 

And added The name of his cruise ship "new Amsterdam " on it with Some red Food coloring. 

And finally, i added a little dolphin to watch over his gifts, though my husband told me ot looked more like a seal. I was happy it was any nautical creature... 

 Here it is in a different angle:

So later in the evening I reminded that I did not have a greeting card for Opa, so I made one, 

I made it in a scrapbooking style, turned out great...

And this is the inside:

I hope he likes it and you did too, cheers from The Mad scientist...