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Cookie Loves Milk
by Katie Johnson @katydid · submitted Aug 3, 2009 · 2009 contest
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Description
This is one of my favorite threadless designs... it is just so cute! (and so true!) So when I heard about the threadcakes contest, I had to give it a shot. (This is my first entry to the contest, ever).
I started out making a marble cake batter (chocolate and yellow cake). While the cakes were baking I made fluffy vanilla buttercream frosting. Once the cakes were cooled, I leveled out the layers and stacked them with a layer of buttercream frosting in-between. I then went over the cake with a thin layer of buttercream all around and put it in the fridge for the "crumb coat". Once the crumb coat was set, I layered the cake with the remaining buttercream and then topped that with a thin layer of white rolled fondant.
The next morning, I set to work on the rest of the cake. I dyed some fondant dark blue like the background in the design and rolled it out. I then cut out outlines of the cookie and milk carton figures in the blue fondant before attaching it to the cake. (This way, I didn't have to use extra white fondant to create the milk carton figure.) I attached the sheet of blue fondant and set to work on the rest of the details. (Red fondant for the milk carton, tan for the cookie, dark brown for the cookie chips and for the arms and legs of each figure, as well as the eyes and smile of the milk carton, and off white fondant for the shadowing on the milk carton). After rolling out the dyed fondant colors, I cut out most of the detail work by hand or used round cookie cutters to make some of the shapes. Then I adhered the pieces with a small dab of buttercream. The conversation bubble was cut out with a circle cookie cutter that it stretched and then hand shaped to make "oval". The letters I cut out with letter cookie cutters, and then reshaped a little by hand/with a craft knife to get the font as close to the original as possible.
Overall, this cake took me probably around 6 hours to make (I made the cake the night before and did the detail work the next morning). It turned out delish! The cake was moist and yummy and the fondant didn't taste so bad either with the layer of buttercream underneath it. I did kind of run out of room (especially by the word bubble) due to the contours of the cake, but overall I think it turned out pretty cute. Not bad for my first try!
I started out making a marble cake batter (chocolate and yellow cake). While the cakes were baking I made fluffy vanilla buttercream frosting. Once the cakes were cooled, I leveled out the layers and stacked them with a layer of buttercream frosting in-between. I then went over the cake with a thin layer of buttercream all around and put it in the fridge for the "crumb coat". Once the crumb coat was set, I layered the cake with the remaining buttercream and then topped that with a thin layer of white rolled fondant.
The next morning, I set to work on the rest of the cake. I dyed some fondant dark blue like the background in the design and rolled it out. I then cut out outlines of the cookie and milk carton figures in the blue fondant before attaching it to the cake. (This way, I didn't have to use extra white fondant to create the milk carton figure.) I attached the sheet of blue fondant and set to work on the rest of the details. (Red fondant for the milk carton, tan for the cookie, dark brown for the cookie chips and for the arms and legs of each figure, as well as the eyes and smile of the milk carton, and off white fondant for the shadowing on the milk carton). After rolling out the dyed fondant colors, I cut out most of the detail work by hand or used round cookie cutters to make some of the shapes. Then I adhered the pieces with a small dab of buttercream. The conversation bubble was cut out with a circle cookie cutter that it stretched and then hand shaped to make "oval". The letters I cut out with letter cookie cutters, and then reshaped a little by hand/with a craft knife to get the font as close to the original as possible.
Overall, this cake took me probably around 6 hours to make (I made the cake the night before and did the detail work the next morning). It turned out delish! The cake was moist and yummy and the fondant didn't taste so bad either with the layer of buttercream underneath it. I did kind of run out of room (especially by the word bubble) due to the contours of the cake, but overall I think it turned out pretty cute. Not bad for my first try!
