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Fisherman s Find
by Kathy Adams @Kat's Cakes · submitted Aug 12, 2011 · 2011 contest
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Description
Ok, so I chose Fisherman’s Find because I love any subject relating to the ocean. I thought the little guy in the boat viewing his many selves was interesting. Although it was a cake bearing darker colors, I thought I would try it for my first one. I decorated and designed cakes in the past so making this one brought back a lot of memories about ingredients, techniques, tools and tricks.
For this cake I thought I would use mostly fondant and icing rather than gum paste or modeling chocolate, just for experiments sake. This cake basically took two days. The first day I baked all the cakes and formed a plan for assembly as well as made fondant, royal and buttercream icing. The next day was spent assembling, building, covering pieces with fondant and then finishing the cake. This cake took approximately 10 hours to complete. As I was building I did notice I had a scale issue that was fixed easily by cutting nearly the bottom half off after it was covered with fondant. No support was needed for this cake as it wasn’t too large (heavy). I decided to paint the cake with a mixture of gel food color and lemon juice. I painted at least 4 coats to get a dark, navy blue. I know there are higher quality dusts you can buy, but this was my first cake in a very long time and I had a budget! (Things can get expensive!) Next, I made a template for the fisherman from the print out, cutting out the parts to make him and then attaching the tiny fondant pieces to the cake with water. I piped on the other small bottle and attached tiny fondant remnants to resemble another fisherman in a bottle.
I could have submitted it just like this, but I thought the addition of clouds and a moon would make it more dramatic. These pieces were cut out, dried and attached on the end of floral wire. The wires that are shown are the only thing about the cake inedible. Looking at the finished product, there are a ton of things I would do differently. Overall, I was happy with the outcome.
For this cake I thought I would use mostly fondant and icing rather than gum paste or modeling chocolate, just for experiments sake. This cake basically took two days. The first day I baked all the cakes and formed a plan for assembly as well as made fondant, royal and buttercream icing. The next day was spent assembling, building, covering pieces with fondant and then finishing the cake. This cake took approximately 10 hours to complete. As I was building I did notice I had a scale issue that was fixed easily by cutting nearly the bottom half off after it was covered with fondant. No support was needed for this cake as it wasn’t too large (heavy). I decided to paint the cake with a mixture of gel food color and lemon juice. I painted at least 4 coats to get a dark, navy blue. I know there are higher quality dusts you can buy, but this was my first cake in a very long time and I had a budget! (Things can get expensive!) Next, I made a template for the fisherman from the print out, cutting out the parts to make him and then attaching the tiny fondant pieces to the cake with water. I piped on the other small bottle and attached tiny fondant remnants to resemble another fisherman in a bottle.
I could have submitted it just like this, but I thought the addition of clouds and a moon would make it more dramatic. These pieces were cut out, dried and attached on the end of floral wire. The wires that are shown are the only thing about the cake inedible. Looking at the finished product, there are a ton of things I would do differently. Overall, I was happy with the outcome.
