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After watching hours and hours of The Food Network and various cake shows over my summer break, I decided I wanted to make my own birthday cake this year, and make it better than just a birthday cake. My family brainstormed ideas of what I could make. Then, my sister Valerie found the ThreadCakes contest. We picked the "Test Pattern" t-shirt to replicate, and that's when the process began.
My sister, my mom, and myself were the contributors to this delicious mess. While listening to the Michael Jackson coverage on CNN, we decided we would stack three 6-inch cakes together to create the shape of the T.V. and prop another 7 or so inch cake on the front of those cakes in order to have a flat surface to work on. We decided to make the colored stripes out of Airheads. We cut the Airheads and rolled them together to make the stripes long and narrow. We had to use yellow food coloring to "paint" a white Airhead to get the yellow stripe, and we used black food coloring to achieve the gray stripe. We dyed the chocolate frosting black using black food coloring. We shaped the bottom of the Airheads to look like they were melting off the T.V. by hand. Then, we created the puddle at the base of the T.V. by rolling the leftover Airheads into skinny pieces and placed them together.
I'm not gonna lie, we were all slightly embarrassed of this cake at first. By no means do we think we're going to win, but our family and friends were impressed so I'm submitting this anyway. And hey, maybe we'll even wind up on CakeWrecks!

Submitter's Comments: (High Res Image)
After watching hours and hours of The Food Network and various cake shows over my summer break, I decided I wanted to make my own birthday cake this year, and make it better than just a birthday cake. My family brainstormed ideas of what I could make. Then, my sister Valerie found the ThreadCakes contest. We picked the "Test Pattern" t-shirt to replicate, and that's when the process began.
My sister, my mom, and myself were the contributors to this delicious mess. While listening to the Michael Jackson coverage on CNN, we decided we would stack three 6-inch cakes together to create the shape of the T.V. and prop another 7 or so inch cake on the front of those cakes in order to have a flat surface to work on. We decided to make the colored stripes out of Airheads. We cut the Airheads and rolled them together to make the stripes long and narrow. We had to use yellow food coloring to "paint" a white Airhead to get the yellow stripe, and we used black food coloring to achieve the gray stripe. We dyed the chocolate frosting black using black food coloring. We shaped the bottom of the Airheads to look like they were melting off the T.V. by hand. Then, we created the puddle at the base of the T.V. by rolling the leftover Airheads into skinny pieces and placed them together.
I'm not gonna lie, we were all slightly embarrassed of this cake at first. By no means do we think we're going to win, but our family and friends were impressed so I'm submitting this anyway. And hey, maybe we'll even wind up on CakeWrecks!

Submitter's Comments: (High Res Image)
After watching hours and hours of The Food Network and various cake shows over my summer break, I decided I wanted to make my own birthday cake this year, and make it better than just a birthday cake. My family brainstormed ideas of what I could make. Then, my sister Valerie found the ThreadCakes contest. We picked the "Test Pattern" t-shirt to replicate, and that's when the process began.
My sister, my mom, and myself were the contributors to this delicious mess. While listening to the Michael Jackson coverage on CNN, we decided we would stack three 6-inch cakes together to create the shape of the T.V. and prop another 7 or so inch cake on the front of those cakes in order to have a flat surface to work on. We decided to make the colored stripes out of Airheads. We cut the Airheads and rolled them together to make the stripes long and narrow. We had to use yellow food coloring to "paint" a white Airhead to get the yellow stripe, and we used black food coloring to achieve the gray stripe. We dyed the chocolate frosting black using black food coloring. We shaped the bottom of the Airheads to look like they were melting off the T.V. by hand. Then, we created the puddle at the base of the T.V. by rolling the leftover Airheads into skinny pieces and placed them together.
I'm not gonna lie, we were all slightly embarrassed of this cake at first. By no means do we think we're going to win, but our family and friends were impressed so I'm submitting this anyway. And hey, maybe we'll even wind up on CakeWrecks!

Submitter's Comments: (High Res Image)
After watching hours and hours of The Food Network and various cake shows over my summer break, I decided I wanted to make my own birthday cake this year, and make it better than just a birthday cake. My family brainstormed ideas of what I could make. Then, my sister Valerie found the ThreadCakes contest. We picked the "Test Pattern" t-shirt to replicate, and that's when the process began.
My sister, my mom, and myself were the contributors to this delicious mess. While listening to the Michael Jackson coverage on CNN, we decided we would stack three 6-inch cakes together to create the shape of the T.V. and prop another 7 or so inch cake on the front of those cakes in order to have a flat surface to work on. We decided to make the colored stripes out of Airheads. We cut the Airheads and rolled them together to make the stripes long and narrow. We had to use yellow food coloring to "paint" a white Airhead to get the yellow stripe, and we used black food coloring to achieve the gray stripe. We dyed the chocolate frosting black using black food coloring. We shaped the bottom of the Airheads to look like they were melting off the T.V. by hand. Then, we created the puddle at the base of the T.V. by rolling the leftover Airheads into skinny pieces and placed them together.
I'm not gonna lie, we were all slightly embarrassed of this cake at first. By no means do we think we're going to win, but our family and friends were impressed so I'm submitting this anyway. And hey, maybe we'll even wind up on CakeWrecks!

Submitter's Comments: (High Res Image)
After watching hours and hours of The Food Network and various cake shows over my summer break, I decided I wanted to make my own birthday cake this year, and make it better than just a birthday cake. My family brainstormed ideas of what I could make. Then, my sister Valerie found the ThreadCakes contest. We picked the "Test Pattern" t-shirt to replicate, and that's when the process began.
My sister, my mom, and myself were the contributors to this delicious mess. While listening to the Michael Jackson coverage on CNN, we decided we would stack three 6-inch cakes together to create the shape of the T.V. and prop another 7 or so inch cake on the front of those cakes in order to have a flat surface to work on. We decided to make the colored stripes out of Airheads. We cut the Airheads and rolled them together to make the stripes long and narrow. We had to use yellow food coloring to "paint" a white Airhead to get the yellow stripe, and we used black food coloring to achieve the gray stripe. We dyed the chocolate frosting black using black food coloring. We shaped the bottom of the Airheads to look like they were melting off the T.V. by hand. Then, we created the puddle at the base of the T.V. by rolling the leftover Airheads into skinny pieces and placed them together.
I'm not gonna lie, we were all slightly embarrassed of this cake at first. By no means do we think we're going to win, but our family and friends were impressed so I'm submitting this anyway. And hey, maybe we'll even wind up on CakeWrecks!

Submitter's Comments: (High Res Image)
After watching hours and hours of The Food Network and various cake shows over my summer break, I decided I wanted to make my own birthday cake this year, and make it better than just a birthday cake. My family brainstormed ideas of what I could make. Then, my sister Valerie found the ThreadCakes contest. We picked the "Test Pattern" t-shirt to replicate, and that's when the process began.
My sister, my mom, and myself were the contributors to this delicious mess. While listening to the Michael Jackson coverage on CNN, we decided we would stack three 6-inch cakes together to create the shape of the T.V. and prop another 7 or so inch cake on the front of those cakes in order to have a flat surface to work on. We decided to make the colored stripes out of Airheads. We cut the Airheads and rolled them together to make the stripes long and narrow. We had to use yellow food coloring to "paint" a white Airhead to get the yellow stripe, and we used black food coloring to achieve the gray stripe. We dyed the chocolate frosting black using black food coloring. We shaped the bottom of the Airheads to look like they were melting off the T.V. by hand. Then, we created the puddle at the base of the T.V. by rolling the leftover Airheads into skinny pieces and placed them together.
I'm not gonna lie, we were all slightly embarrassed of this cake at first. By no means do we think we're going to win, but our family and friends were impressed so I'm submitting this anyway. And hey, maybe we'll even wind up on CakeWrecks!