3D Finalist 1
My Life is a Game (a New Stage)
by Azra Markar · submitted Aug 16, 2011 · 2011 contest
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Description
My sister and I decided to work on our Threadcake together. We chose “My Life is a Game” as our Threadless design. It is an interesting design with MANY small components which we decided to challenge ourselves with. The two of us spent 3 full days baking and decorating the cake.
We began by baking a vanilla pound cake in two 9X11 inch pans. We used a round cutter to cut 12 circles which were then sandwiched with chocolate buttercream to form the 6 layers of our cake. Each small cake was placed on a cake board and covered with buttercream and then grey marshmallow fondant. Five boards were covered with marshmallow fondant as a base for the clouds, and one with blue modeling chocolate as the bottom layer. We used a wooden dowel which was drilled into a wooden board as the base for our cake. Each cake also contained plastic straws as support between the layers. The 6 cakes were stacked by pushing the board and cake through the dowel. Our final cake stood at nearly a foot and a half tall.
Most of our time was taken up by creating the many creatures surrounding the cake. They were all made from modeling chocolate; an exception being the clouds, which were marshmallow fondant. We made each color using food coloring, trying to keep it as accurate as we could. A couple figures (little hut, the swirly tongue and two thin branched trees) required some support. We used toothpicks in the hut, and wire in the other figures. A black edible food marker was used to add extra details.
To finish off the cake the figures were placed around the cake, using some tylose glue to attach things firmly.
This cake was definitely a challenge. We initially had some trouble stacking our cake using only a wooden dowel and plastic straws, it was not stable and our cake was about to topple. This ended up with our bottom cake being crushed, which we redid with leftover cake. We had to alter our plans to include a wooden board to stabilize the dowel which improved the structure tremendously. Also the figures were very small and time consuming, but were worth the effort. This was also the first time we have tried using modeling chocolate, and we’re happy to say that it was very easy to work with.
Our Threadcake was a challenge but turned out to be a tasty success!
We began by baking a vanilla pound cake in two 9X11 inch pans. We used a round cutter to cut 12 circles which were then sandwiched with chocolate buttercream to form the 6 layers of our cake. Each small cake was placed on a cake board and covered with buttercream and then grey marshmallow fondant. Five boards were covered with marshmallow fondant as a base for the clouds, and one with blue modeling chocolate as the bottom layer. We used a wooden dowel which was drilled into a wooden board as the base for our cake. Each cake also contained plastic straws as support between the layers. The 6 cakes were stacked by pushing the board and cake through the dowel. Our final cake stood at nearly a foot and a half tall.
Most of our time was taken up by creating the many creatures surrounding the cake. They were all made from modeling chocolate; an exception being the clouds, which were marshmallow fondant. We made each color using food coloring, trying to keep it as accurate as we could. A couple figures (little hut, the swirly tongue and two thin branched trees) required some support. We used toothpicks in the hut, and wire in the other figures. A black edible food marker was used to add extra details.
To finish off the cake the figures were placed around the cake, using some tylose glue to attach things firmly.
This cake was definitely a challenge. We initially had some trouble stacking our cake using only a wooden dowel and plastic straws, it was not stable and our cake was about to topple. This ended up with our bottom cake being crushed, which we redid with leftover cake. We had to alter our plans to include a wooden board to stabilize the dowel which improved the structure tremendously. Also the figures were very small and time consuming, but were worth the effort. This was also the first time we have tried using modeling chocolate, and we’re happy to say that it was very easy to work with.
Our Threadcake was a challenge but turned out to be a tasty success!