My son turned eight today and had a very specific request for his cake. It started out as a skeleton/fire/rock theme and evolved into this.
It changed as my kiddo decided he wanted to incorporate axolotls into the design. This is his precious drawing he made for me that showed what he wanted.
I made a few aesthetic decisions, but everything is pretty close! It’s vanilla cake and strawberry cake with basic American buttercream. The top layer is iced with grey, but the bottom layer is iced white and painted with black edible paint to limit how much food dye it would take to make that much black vanilla icing.
Everything is edible, save a handful of toothpicks. The decorations are either fondant with edible pen and powdered food coloring, white chocolate, or isomalt sugar fire.
This was a picture I found online and just borrowed since it closely resembled what he had requested with an axolotl face and two 
here are some progress pics.
My kiddo originally requested an axolotl as a robot made out of fondant for the topper, but after I made this axolotl, his little brother suggested I make a figurine of the birthday boy making a sort of Freddie mercury pose on the axolotl. It was so silly (as everything my six year old does), that we went with it. It’s so ridiculous. I love it.
My eight year old birthday boy is the king of dad jokes, so the Zac Roxolotl (rocks a lot “l”) was a big hit.
Fingers crossed it does ok on the counter tonight. 
we are celebrating tomorrow with cousins and it’s too tall to fit in the fridge. 
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