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Polar Gardening
by Hillary Bliss @HVickieB · submitted Aug 1, 2010 · 2010 contest
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Description
I decided to combat the 100+ degree heat of August with a cake that would make me feel cool. Blue and white are my favorite colors, so I picked the Polar Gardening design to re-create in cake. I haven't worked with fondant much in the past, but the clean lines and simple shapes in this scene are very fondant-friendly.
I baked the base layer (10” x 18” x 1”), half a 6” sphere, and a 6” layer cake to construct the base and igloo. Since I follow a vegan diet, I baked a basic vegan yellow cake recipe with basic buttercream (no butter, of course!) under the fondant layer. This recipe is a dense, sweet cake that almost tastes like a sweet bread, but most importantly is very structurally sound and most.
The cake and igloo are covered in fondant and dusted with luster dust, and gardener is molded out of fondant, except for his rake, which is made of linguine noodles. Since the time of the original portrait, our polar gardener’s crop has boomed and expanded into other frozen treats, including ice cream cones (made out of Bugles and fondant covered in luster dust), ice cream sandwiches (Cookie Crisp cereal with buttercream filling), and the traditional popsicles (gum drops with linguine sticks). After a detailed study of igloo architecture, my boyfriend Bruce carved the ice blocks into the igloo. After taking the requisite photos, my mom, my boyfriend, my brother, and I all celebrated the bountiful harvest with huge portions of cake!
I baked the base layer (10” x 18” x 1”), half a 6” sphere, and a 6” layer cake to construct the base and igloo. Since I follow a vegan diet, I baked a basic vegan yellow cake recipe with basic buttercream (no butter, of course!) under the fondant layer. This recipe is a dense, sweet cake that almost tastes like a sweet bread, but most importantly is very structurally sound and most.
The cake and igloo are covered in fondant and dusted with luster dust, and gardener is molded out of fondant, except for his rake, which is made of linguine noodles. Since the time of the original portrait, our polar gardener’s crop has boomed and expanded into other frozen treats, including ice cream cones (made out of Bugles and fondant covered in luster dust), ice cream sandwiches (Cookie Crisp cereal with buttercream filling), and the traditional popsicles (gum drops with linguine sticks). After a detailed study of igloo architecture, my boyfriend Bruce carved the ice blocks into the igloo. After taking the requisite photos, my mom, my boyfriend, my brother, and I all celebrated the bountiful harvest with huge portions of cake!