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Baron VonFunburger's Haunted Castle Cavalcade
by Linda Jewell · submitted Jul 29, 2009 · 2009 contest
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First of all, can I just say that I had a freaking blast with this contest? As soon as I saw the Baron VonFunburger design, I knew that I had to make it out of cake. It is amazing.
The cake-making process took me about 6 or 7 hours in total; I baked a white sheet cake before going to bed one night, then made a raspberry-chocolate cake first thing in the morning. While the chocolate cake baked, then cooled, I made the icing and the fondant. I should mention that my submission is also entirely vegan cause that's how I roll. Pictures of the cake batter and the fondant-making process can be found in my photolog. I made everything from scratch using only my two hands and with minor assistance from my cat Jim, who can be seen chillin' in a few of the "making of" pictures. My other cat didn't help at all but he did sit by the front door and supervise so that's cool too.
Anyway, once I was ready to go, I sliced my cakes in half so that I would have more material to work with and so that I could stack my cake to an appropriate height for carving some of the bigger pieces, like the mummyburger and the buns. You can see the uncovered carved cakes and the fondanted-but-undecorated cakes in my "making of" photos (the cakes with just their crumb coat were not a pretty sight). It was a hideous rainy day when I was baking, but we had a brief moment of sun as soon as I finished so I was able to get nice lighting for my photography.
In real life, I am not a baker, but a humble graduate student in chemistry. When I learned that my labmate's birthday was only a day after I made my cake, I knew that this cake had been chosen for me by fate. Word of the "weird hamburger cake" floated through the department quickly, and before my labmates and I had finished our first go at the cake, students from other labs started to show up. At the end of the day, people from across the entire chemistry department had come to sample the cake. In the "destroying of" pictures, there are students from three different labs!
And that is the story of how I spent a bunch of time making cake instead of writing my thesis. But I fed my supervisor cake so I guess everything worked out ok(?). Anyway I hope you like my submission! :)
The cake-making process took me about 6 or 7 hours in total; I baked a white sheet cake before going to bed one night, then made a raspberry-chocolate cake first thing in the morning. While the chocolate cake baked, then cooled, I made the icing and the fondant. I should mention that my submission is also entirely vegan cause that's how I roll. Pictures of the cake batter and the fondant-making process can be found in my photolog. I made everything from scratch using only my two hands and with minor assistance from my cat Jim, who can be seen chillin' in a few of the "making of" pictures. My other cat didn't help at all but he did sit by the front door and supervise so that's cool too.
Anyway, once I was ready to go, I sliced my cakes in half so that I would have more material to work with and so that I could stack my cake to an appropriate height for carving some of the bigger pieces, like the mummyburger and the buns. You can see the uncovered carved cakes and the fondanted-but-undecorated cakes in my "making of" photos (the cakes with just their crumb coat were not a pretty sight). It was a hideous rainy day when I was baking, but we had a brief moment of sun as soon as I finished so I was able to get nice lighting for my photography.
In real life, I am not a baker, but a humble graduate student in chemistry. When I learned that my labmate's birthday was only a day after I made my cake, I knew that this cake had been chosen for me by fate. Word of the "weird hamburger cake" floated through the department quickly, and before my labmates and I had finished our first go at the cake, students from other labs started to show up. At the end of the day, people from across the entire chemistry department had come to sample the cake. In the "destroying of" pictures, there are students from three different labs!
And that is the story of how I spent a bunch of time making cake instead of writing my thesis. But I fed my supervisor cake so I guess everything worked out ok(?). Anyway I hope you like my submission! :)
Baker’s site: zaqette.livejournal.com/