3D 3rd place 2
Green Thumberjack
by Kylie Mangles · submitted Oct 18, 2013 · 2013 contest
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Description
I love this design, coming from a family of west coast loggers, who love the west coast rain forest, it is true to my heart. I also love the designers style and thought it would be a good challenge.
I started by printing it out to the size I wanted the finished cake to be. Then measured everything to figure out how big to make the cakes. I baked some deliciously moist chocolate cakes for the body and tree stump and rice krispies for the head. Then I made a batch of milk chocolate ganache, white modelling chocolate and milk modelling chocolate. After baking the cakes I torted them and stacked them with chocolate ganache and hazelnut praline. I thought the flavour was fitting for the design. After they chilled I carved them and coated them with some more chocolate ganache.. mmm CHOCOLATE.
I made all the extra pieces out of gum paste or modelling chocolate, like the pot, axe and hoe. Then shaped the head out of Rice Krispies and covered it in... you guessed it more chocolate ganache. Then some modelling chocolate and began shaping his face and adding features. I used an extruder to make his red chest and arm hair.
In trying to use as little supports as possible I used one doweling, and glued a cake board cut to the shape I needed in the middle and placed it in the centre of the cake drum. I used modelling chocolate for his legs and boots and pretty much everything else. Then I placed the cake carved for his body on the cake board and covered it in modelling chocolate. When attaching the arms, because they are so thick and heavy I threaded a piece of 20 gauge floral wire through his upper body to help support the arms so they could stay on. I also used a paint brush to keep one of his arms in place while it dried. Unfortunately the hoe handle broke :(... lesson learned, always make an extra of anything that needs a lot of time to dry. I didn't have enough time to remake the handle and have it dry properly. So I used a piece of doweling covered in fondant.
I used colour dusts mixed with vodka to paint on details like the stripes on his shirt, the lines on the stump and the white on the racoon. Then I placed everything in place and moved it into position with the background. For the background and base, I covered a cutting board and a cake board with modelling chocolate.
It took about four days to complete the cake. I had hoped to make it for my brother and my dads birthdays but I wasn't able to at the time. So it was a belated birthday cake. My brother his wife enjoyed cutting into it and everyone enjoyed eating its awesome chocolateyness.
I started by printing it out to the size I wanted the finished cake to be. Then measured everything to figure out how big to make the cakes. I baked some deliciously moist chocolate cakes for the body and tree stump and rice krispies for the head. Then I made a batch of milk chocolate ganache, white modelling chocolate and milk modelling chocolate. After baking the cakes I torted them and stacked them with chocolate ganache and hazelnut praline. I thought the flavour was fitting for the design. After they chilled I carved them and coated them with some more chocolate ganache.. mmm CHOCOLATE.
I made all the extra pieces out of gum paste or modelling chocolate, like the pot, axe and hoe. Then shaped the head out of Rice Krispies and covered it in... you guessed it more chocolate ganache. Then some modelling chocolate and began shaping his face and adding features. I used an extruder to make his red chest and arm hair.
In trying to use as little supports as possible I used one doweling, and glued a cake board cut to the shape I needed in the middle and placed it in the centre of the cake drum. I used modelling chocolate for his legs and boots and pretty much everything else. Then I placed the cake carved for his body on the cake board and covered it in modelling chocolate. When attaching the arms, because they are so thick and heavy I threaded a piece of 20 gauge floral wire through his upper body to help support the arms so they could stay on. I also used a paint brush to keep one of his arms in place while it dried. Unfortunately the hoe handle broke :(... lesson learned, always make an extra of anything that needs a lot of time to dry. I didn't have enough time to remake the handle and have it dry properly. So I used a piece of doweling covered in fondant.
I used colour dusts mixed with vodka to paint on details like the stripes on his shirt, the lines on the stump and the white on the racoon. Then I placed everything in place and moved it into position with the background. For the background and base, I covered a cutting board and a cake board with modelling chocolate.
It took about four days to complete the cake. I had hoped to make it for my brother and my dads birthdays but I wasn't able to at the time. So it was a belated birthday cake. My brother his wife enjoyed cutting into it and everyone enjoyed eating its awesome chocolateyness.
Baker’s site: www.freshlysqueezd.com
