3D
Insomnia
by Helen Yeung · submitted Aug 17, 2010 · 2010 contest
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Description
Who doesn't love sheep? Cute and fluffy, these sheep were so irresistibly adorable that we couldn't NOT make this cake!
The cake was a simple chocolate cake covered in a chocolate buttercream frosting. Colored coconut flakes and crumbled Oreos were used for grass and soil on the top, and the tufts of tally-mark-grass around the sides were piped buttercream. To make the sheep white and fluffy, our first instinct was to use marshmallows. A jumbo marshmallow was inverted and covered with mini marshmallows so that the mini marshmallows would stick together. Pretzel sticks composed the legs, and chocolate covered almonds made the perfect shape for the heads. These grazing sheep were placed around the cake as you would expect to find a flock in a pasture.
This cake was made in two sessions. The first session, which was only a couple hours long, was just for baking and cooling the cakes, and the second session lasted about four hours, as we played around with different ideas on how to construct the sheep and how to arrange both the sheep and the elements of the ground.
At the end of the day, all the hard work paid off, and the reward was being able to eat the cake, sheep and all! The chocolate cake proved dense but moist and not too sweet, a perfect pairing with the sweetness of the buttercream frosting. Even the marshmallow sheep were good to eat, almost like a s'more with marshmallows and chocolate!
The cake was a simple chocolate cake covered in a chocolate buttercream frosting. Colored coconut flakes and crumbled Oreos were used for grass and soil on the top, and the tufts of tally-mark-grass around the sides were piped buttercream. To make the sheep white and fluffy, our first instinct was to use marshmallows. A jumbo marshmallow was inverted and covered with mini marshmallows so that the mini marshmallows would stick together. Pretzel sticks composed the legs, and chocolate covered almonds made the perfect shape for the heads. These grazing sheep were placed around the cake as you would expect to find a flock in a pasture.
This cake was made in two sessions. The first session, which was only a couple hours long, was just for baking and cooling the cakes, and the second session lasted about four hours, as we played around with different ideas on how to construct the sheep and how to arrange both the sheep and the elements of the ground.
At the end of the day, all the hard work paid off, and the reward was being able to eat the cake, sheep and all! The chocolate cake proved dense but moist and not too sweet, a perfect pairing with the sweetness of the buttercream frosting. Even the marshmallow sheep were good to eat, almost like a s'more with marshmallows and chocolate!
