3D
We Were Tomatoes
by Lilly Silbert @LillySilbert · submitted Aug 5, 2009 · 2009 contest
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Description
I chose this design because I love the evil ketchup chasing the terrified little tomatoes. It's like they're running from the scary zombie ketchup. To make this design I used chocolate cake to make the cake balls for the tomatoes and yellow cake for the hills. Rather than due a traditional 3 tiered cake, I wanted the ground to be 3d as well.
First I made the cake balls and put them in the fridge to chill. I used rice crispy treat to make the body of the ketchup for weight and support issues. Instead of fondant, I used modeling chocolate. I did this because I wanted it to taste as good as it looked and if I used food coloring to color fondant that vivid a red, it would have tasted bitter and chemical. But chocolate colors beautifully and is oh so tasty! I mean ...it's chocolate. And it goes very well with the chocolate cake. I did use fondant for the stems and the shoes because tomatoes just wouldn't seem complete without the stems and how would they run away without the shoes. :) I used a food color pen to draw on the eyeballs.
I had a lot of fun giving the tomatoes attitude. Their expressions were just awesome.
In order to create the hills, I sculpted yellow cake into the hills. I frosted it with homemade buttercream and covered them with green fondant.
As I arranged the tomatoes I tried to convey the fact that they were about to pulp themselves and were fleeing in terror. I love how their little hands are waving in fright. The ketchup is just looming over then with these big zombielike teeth. You can almost hear him yelling, "Raaaarrrrr!" and the tomatoes are all, Run! Run for your lives! The ketchup is coming and it's not heinz!
First I made the cake balls and put them in the fridge to chill. I used rice crispy treat to make the body of the ketchup for weight and support issues. Instead of fondant, I used modeling chocolate. I did this because I wanted it to taste as good as it looked and if I used food coloring to color fondant that vivid a red, it would have tasted bitter and chemical. But chocolate colors beautifully and is oh so tasty! I mean ...it's chocolate. And it goes very well with the chocolate cake. I did use fondant for the stems and the shoes because tomatoes just wouldn't seem complete without the stems and how would they run away without the shoes. :) I used a food color pen to draw on the eyeballs.
I had a lot of fun giving the tomatoes attitude. Their expressions were just awesome.
In order to create the hills, I sculpted yellow cake into the hills. I frosted it with homemade buttercream and covered them with green fondant.
As I arranged the tomatoes I tried to convey the fact that they were about to pulp themselves and were fleeing in terror. I love how their little hands are waving in fright. The ketchup is just looming over then with these big zombielike teeth. You can almost hear him yelling, "Raaaarrrrr!" and the tomatoes are all, Run! Run for your lives! The ketchup is coming and it's not heinz!
