Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!

Submitter's Comments:
Hello Everyone! Greetings from Malaysia~

I had known about Threadcakes since three years ago but only this year I finally had the chance to enter!

Being new to this, I decided to do a 2D cake because I didn’t want to do anything that is beyond my caking capabilities. So my cardinal rule of design selection was to choose something simple and doable in the time frame that I was allocating this project to. Boy, was I wrong about that whole simple thing!

I had chosen a few designs, mainly all patterned type and finally settled to this one because I think it will be interesting to do pattern design and transformed it into a cake! I knew I didn't want to make just a flat cake and transfer the designs just like that. I wanted to try and transform the design into a cake - meaning the design is incorporated onto the round surface of a cake.

The idea sounded simple at the beginning. But after few layers of coloring the fondant (29 different shades of colors, mind you!), tracing and cutting the shapes accordingly before layering it on the cake, only then I realized that this was not a simple task at all. *Sigh*

The first few colored layers were done using a method called Wax Paper Transfer Method (WPTM) that was popularized by my cake idol. However, I failed on the attempt of doing this method and decided to just go layer by layer soon afterwards until the end. This way, the layers were easily blended especially at the both ends of the designs in which I decided to join them together to create a seamless layer.

The cake was a 6 inch moist vanilla cake with buttercream and strawberry jam and shelled with dark chocolate ganache. As with the design, the cake was baked in rainbow colors just for the fun of it. I used only two cake boards placed on top of every two layers of the cake as the structure.

I added two elements on this cake; the pressed tube of oil paint and the defying-gravity of pouring oil paint. For this, I used a balloon stick inserted with wires so that it will be easy to bend into a curve shape. The reason of these additions is not because I think the design is lack of anything, but I wanted to create a story to the cake: the pouring oil paint created the messy melting of many array of colors. Hence, there are many colors coming out from the hanging tube.

After all the colors were painstakingly placed on the cake, I added some dimensions to the tears/bleeding part by first making a teardrop shaped fondant and stick them on the tears/bleeding part before smoothing them out using the modelling tools. Although the process was tedious, but I am glad that I went through it because this was where I learned a lot about fondant modelling and the right tools for smoothing fondant. Doing this also helps with the overall look of the cake as it was initially a bit crooked. In the video, the crooked cake was a bit obvious at least for me.

I now know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided next time to achieve a straight looking cake – cake needs vertical structure. This can be done by using bubble straws or dowel rods. Knowing about this fact and neglecting to use it for this cake was a decision I struggled to make because I wanted to minimise the use of non-edible structure in this cake as required. A decision that now I wished I’d do differently.

Making (AND finishing) this cake was truly an experience for me. I now know so much more than I did before entering this competition. Although there are many areas that I can improve on, I love the outcome of this cake and am proud of it!