Training

So this cake was one disaster after another. It started out as an attempt at a different threadcake, but a major structural collapse left me with no usable cake and a large quantity of buttercream and green fondant. I then decided to use some of my smaller round cake tins to make the body. That was working great until one rose too much, caught on the element in the oven on the way out and splattered on the floor.

So I went simple, baked a sheet cake and cut out the shapes. Stacked and shaped them with a decent internal support system this time and set to covering it. The combination of overworked fondant and a tricky overhang made getting the fondant to hang neatly a difficult job, but I got there in the end.

Next, the fun part. I cut the spines out of modelling chocolate and improvised everything else. At first I thought the miniature godzilla toy was tricky, but I was in no way prepared for the horrors of the robot. It would NOT stay together, and the annoyingly warm weather wasn't helping.

After realising the robot was as good as it was going to get, I made the houses, cars and trees out of fondant, and then made the buildings out of fondant-covered cakepops. Once they were on the board, it was a race against time to get the arms with the toys attached and get a picture before everything started falling apart.

I got the picture, and strangely, the whole thing did not start falling apart. I was stunned

Hauled the whole thing in for my colleagues to eat (they now go to the gym a lot more), and the whole thing was demolished in a matter of minutes. Baby Godzilla is no match for hungry PhD students