3D
A Banana Slipping on a Banana Peel
by burton wills · submitted Jul 5, 2009 · 2009 contest
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Description
I had this rather oddly shaped cake remnant from my previous Threadcakes entry. I didn’t think I could do much with it until I saw Andy Gonsalves’s “Banana Slipping on a Banana Peel” t-shirt design. The shirts has such a graphic, classic cartoon, 2D look and I thought it would be fun to try and imitate that look in 3D, well, mostly 3D, by sculpting the banana guy out of cake.
I also planned to decorate the cake and cake board entirely in fondant of my own making. My fondant is not very forgiving but its behavior is very predictable. My plan was to avoid any food color painting with the exception of top of the Banana’s head (the stem) because I wanted to get the gradation from solid black to yellow and planned to airbrush that part. The rest, even the tiny details, I wanted to do with fondant. So, besides the typical rolled fondant covering of the cake, I did a bit of fondant sculpting and some very thinly rolled fondant appliqués on the cake and the cake board.
For the record, it is not easy to feel tough and manly when using the word “appliqué.”
I almost succeeded in my “all fondant” plan but got frustrated trying to do the Threadless Tees logo and finally reached for the food coloring and a brush for the logo tag and the “Made in USA” tag. And while I had the brush out I did the black bits on the small banana as well.
After serving the cake I mentioned that the t-shirt on the cake board was also edible and suggested that we pass the cake board around and all take licks until the cake board was “clean.” This suggestion was met with a lot of resistance and a small amount of profanity.
I also planned to decorate the cake and cake board entirely in fondant of my own making. My fondant is not very forgiving but its behavior is very predictable. My plan was to avoid any food color painting with the exception of top of the Banana’s head (the stem) because I wanted to get the gradation from solid black to yellow and planned to airbrush that part. The rest, even the tiny details, I wanted to do with fondant. So, besides the typical rolled fondant covering of the cake, I did a bit of fondant sculpting and some very thinly rolled fondant appliqués on the cake and the cake board.
For the record, it is not easy to feel tough and manly when using the word “appliqué.”
I almost succeeded in my “all fondant” plan but got frustrated trying to do the Threadless Tees logo and finally reached for the food coloring and a brush for the logo tag and the “Made in USA” tag. And while I had the brush out I did the black bits on the small banana as well.
After serving the cake I mentioned that the t-shirt on the cake board was also edible and suggested that we pass the cake board around and all take licks until the cake board was “clean.” This suggestion was met with a lot of resistance and a small amount of profanity.
