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Ok so this is "attempt at making a cake" three. My second cake creation was my previous entry "Someday." So let this be the third crack of the egg if you will...
I love this design and it reminds me of an old clock I used to have that was almost identical.
Alright so a little information on myself:
My name is Breanna Cheek, I'm 16, and I live in Alberta. I love watching cake decorating on t.v. so I just had to try it out for myself. So I said this is my third ever try in cake decorating, and it came too late after my last because I was blown away by the other entries!
So enough about me.. "it's all about the cake!" (I had to stick in a mention to the fabulous show, Ace of Cakes.. which I catch every Thursday night)
What went into the cake was: cake batter(with all the fixin's), fondant, food colouring, butter cream icing, chocolate, and a couple of toothpicks for support,
The process:
So I made this cake about the same time as my last entry, so the yellow,
(not lemon, because it did not say so on the box,) cake mix is the same. After adding butter cream icing base, I added on coloured fondant (coloured with food colouring) with a light brown on the top and a dark brown on the sides. I cut out a circle in the middle for the clock out of the darker brown fondant. The numbers on the clock are painted on with food colouring, and the hands are made of fondant. I made sure that the clock was pointing at seven o’clock!
The rest of the details on the top surface of the cake were made of icing and fondant. Around the top edge of the cake, I added some roof tiles made out of brown fondant that I cut with a pizza cutter and scissors. I still wasn’t getting the wood-like effect I wanted, so I wrinkled the fondant and added some sugary icing on top so it had a rougher surface that looked like bark. After adding a few tiles here and there and some icing touch-ups, it was on to the making of the girl. The girl was pretty simple. The chair and herself were made of fondant, the legs had toothpicks for support, and were covered in chocolate. The facial features of the girl are done with brown food colouring, and the indents of flowers in the chair were done with a toothpick. I added some branches that I made by drizzling chocolate on wax paper and cooling it, but most of these branches did not end up on the cake because they were hard to keep on. With leftover green fondant from the chair, I added some leaves all around the cake. And wit the extra black fondant, I made the black birds.
For a couple extra touches, I added the pattern on the clock onto the front of my cake. I also added one of the pine cone parts of the clock that hang down because when I had this clock, that’s what I liked most about it.
After a second cake, my family was sick of eating fondant, but we suffered through it. The process was rewarding enough in itself, eating it was just .. what the heck, the icing on the cake!
I did the best I could to keep all the cake off of my Threadless shirts. ;)
I hope you enjoy my cake as much as I enjoy the design!
