Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

For my eighth Threadcake, I decided to make the design "Life is Like a Box of Terrible Analogies" into a cake...how else? Making a heart-shaped box of terrible analogies, of course.. (Entirely edible!)

The cake itself is a Red Velvet cake to make it extra heart(ish?).

The day before I made this cake, I made the "candy wrappers" out of gumpaste. I used kid's building blocks (that I washed well) to drape the gumpaste over so it could dry and hold its shape. The square "chocolate" candies are actually solid fondant that I made an awful yellow shade so the cake would not only be filled with terrible analogies, but also be colored in a nice gaudy way to match. The "bitten-into candies" are shaped with lollipop sticks to make bite marks and painted with brown food coloring..and apparently they probably didn't taste great because only one "bite" was taken out of each. Finally, I used a food marker to draw on the words to each piece.

I baked and leveled the heart cake, then rolled out some fondant for the bottom of the box. I cut a heart shape out of the fondant, and adhered it to the cake board, then placed the cake on top. I decided to step outside the norm and ice the cake with chocolate frosting instead of cream cheese frosting, because..well, I've had too much cream cheese frosting lately and didn't really want to look at it. Plus, red velvet is essentially a chocolate cake anyway, so it tasted great with the chocolate frosting. I covered the top of the heart cake with fondant, and then made the sides out of slightly hardened strips of the remaining fondant. Then all I had left to do was place the candies on top to complete the heart box effect.


As for my analogies, I decided there was no sense putting full sentences on the candies, so I picked SAT-type analogies instead, like this:

Potato:Peeler::
Cow:Chainsaw

(I suppose you could peel a cow with a chainsaw..but I wouldn't recommend it..hence the "terrible" part of the analogy.)