2D 7
Bad Hair Day
by Sarah Erickson · submitted Jun 30, 2012 · 2012 contest
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Description
Hello! My name is Sarah and I am eleven years old. I chose this design for my mom's Mother's Day cake. Here's how I made it:
I chose to do a rainbow cake on the inside, so I mixed up some vanilla cake batter and dyed it. While that was baking, I made some frosting. Seeing as my cake didn't have an arm growing out of it, I carved a smaller circle from the cake and used the outer ring for the arm. After I crumb coated the cake, I made some marshmallow fondant, colored it a yellowish-orange color, and covered the cake with it.
On to the rays. But how to do them? Toothpicks covered in fondant? No, too short. Strings of fondant? For the floppy ones, yes, but for the straight ones no. Piped out candy melts? Good enough! So, I melted a mix of yellow and orange candy melts and piped them out into straight-ish lines. I also made a comb using black. Which broke. A lot. But, using more chocolate, I kept it together. After that, I stuck a toothpick into the cake, made decent sized holes, and carefully poked the rays in. A lot of them broke, but I managed to get enough in there. Then, I rolled out strings of fondant, put them in some of the holes, and positioned them so they would be floppy. Then I drew the face with my food markers. And admired my handiwork. And ate it. Not too bad!
I chose to do a rainbow cake on the inside, so I mixed up some vanilla cake batter and dyed it. While that was baking, I made some frosting. Seeing as my cake didn't have an arm growing out of it, I carved a smaller circle from the cake and used the outer ring for the arm. After I crumb coated the cake, I made some marshmallow fondant, colored it a yellowish-orange color, and covered the cake with it.
On to the rays. But how to do them? Toothpicks covered in fondant? No, too short. Strings of fondant? For the floppy ones, yes, but for the straight ones no. Piped out candy melts? Good enough! So, I melted a mix of yellow and orange candy melts and piped them out into straight-ish lines. I also made a comb using black. Which broke. A lot. But, using more chocolate, I kept it together. After that, I stuck a toothpick into the cake, made decent sized holes, and carefully poked the rays in. A lot of them broke, but I managed to get enough in there. Then, I rolled out strings of fondant, put them in some of the holes, and positioned them so they would be floppy. Then I drew the face with my food markers. And admired my handiwork. And ate it. Not too bad!
