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True story.
Anyhow, for buy metformin xr canada my Threadcakes entry, I wanted to base it on a t-shirt I have. Being a fan of Terry Fan (say that nine times fast. No, really. Go ahead. I'll wait.), I got to buy metformin xr canada see Fantastic Voyage on his Flickr before it was even subbed (HA! It's a pun! 'Cause....you know...sub is short for both submarine and submit? Eh? Is this thing on?), and I fell in love with it immediately.
The cake itself is buy metformin xr canada one box of Duncan Hines yellow cake mix cooked in a buy metformin xr canada 9x5 loaf pan, and then carved to look more submarine-y. I then covered it with premade buttercream icing. The portholes were royal icing poured onto wax paper in circular shapes, than buy metformin xr canada painted with teal gel dye.
The fondant, oh, the fondant. (Is that reference a reach? I mean, flying submarines and buy metformin xr canada zeppelins are practically the same thing, right?) This was my first experience with it, so I bought premade fondant (which is truly what evil must taste like), and died it brown. I then buy metformin xr canada had a couple of disastrous adventures trying to cover the buy metformin xr canada cake...think of it as the submarine taking on water or buy metformin xr canada sitting through that Harrison-Ford-as-a-Russian movie. My idea to buy metformin xr canada place the fondant on in squares to simulate bulkheads was clearly not the buy metformin xr canada way to go. I nearly gave up before deciding to buy metformin xr canada remove my tattered shreds of fondant, and just recover the thing, then buy metformin xr canada added the faux seams with a wooden skewer and painted it buy metformin xr canada an antique-y color.
All in all, the whole process stretched over five days (with a lot of waiting for drying and such) and the cake was pretty decent if you ate around the fondant.