3D Finalist 13
Knight Owl
by Zoe Sutton · submitted Jul 9, 2012 · 2012 contest
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Description
I chose this design as I love owls and liked the clever idea of a 'knight owl'. I also liked the challenge of creating a cake which would be supported by just the owls two legs. This is the first time I have attempted a cake that needed the engineering knowledge of my long suffering Dad. We used threaded stud with nuts and washers to secure the three cake boards together.
I have been experimenting with different flavour cakes this year, so decided to try a blueberry sponge with blueberry butter cream for this cake. The blueberry sponge came out a bit softer than the cake i would normally use for a carved cake so the very top of the cake was a bit messy to shape. I covered the carved cake in the butter cream and then in a layer of sugar paste which I had coloured with a navy food colouring paste. I let this layer set over night and then began adding the details of the owl in different shades of navy and ice blue sugar paste, these were all attached to the body of the owl using edible glue. I cut a small hole in the base board and I glued a dowel in it to make the lance. I used a piece of card glued to the dowel to support the icing that I needed to put above it. I created the owls eyes using layers of sugar paste, with the lines of sugar paste created using an extruder. I made the feathers out of yellow and navy sugar paste attached to cocktail sticks, I let these harden before I pushed them into the owls helmet.
As with all the cakes I have done for this competition previously, my family wonder how I can bear to cut into it. But they soon realise when they are each treated to a piece, especially this one being blueberry. It was lush.
I have been experimenting with different flavour cakes this year, so decided to try a blueberry sponge with blueberry butter cream for this cake. The blueberry sponge came out a bit softer than the cake i would normally use for a carved cake so the very top of the cake was a bit messy to shape. I covered the carved cake in the butter cream and then in a layer of sugar paste which I had coloured with a navy food colouring paste. I let this layer set over night and then began adding the details of the owl in different shades of navy and ice blue sugar paste, these were all attached to the body of the owl using edible glue. I cut a small hole in the base board and I glued a dowel in it to make the lance. I used a piece of card glued to the dowel to support the icing that I needed to put above it. I created the owls eyes using layers of sugar paste, with the lines of sugar paste created using an extruder. I made the feathers out of yellow and navy sugar paste attached to cocktail sticks, I let these harden before I pushed them into the owls helmet.
As with all the cakes I have done for this competition previously, my family wonder how I can bear to cut into it. But they soon realise when they are each treated to a piece, especially this one being blueberry. It was lush.
