3D
Flowers in the Attic
by Helene Schirmer · submitted Aug 4, 2010 · 2010 contest
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Description
It started one day with three naive bakers and many hours of intense scrutiny of threadless.com. A date was set and great plans were created for their vision; this was their first mistake.
Our first attempt included a lovely headless girl called Cheryl, unfortunately Cheryl wasn’t too steady on her beautifully carved legs and met a sorry fate. So after several hours of baking, carving, icing and tears, we called it a day; not defeated, just more determined.
After some more consideration of how to interpret the design we came up with our plan; focus on the gun, the explosive mad rush of butterflies and pay tribute to the memory of the girl who once was as a slanted shadow.
We started by making our flutter of butterflies out of a mouth-watering mix of sugar paste, catering wire and edible glitter (what’s a cake without glitter?!).
The four cakes were made in 9 x 12 inch rectangular pans with a traditional Victoria sponge recipe and filled with homemade raspberry jam (courtesy of Nana J).
The base cake was covered in jam and white fondant (we underestimated the quantities we would need and several extra trips to the shops was required). The gun was carved from two stacked cakes and then covered in jam and black fondant. The detail for the gun was painstakingly created from black and white icing and is emblazoned with the monikers of the fine gunsmiths/bakers. The shadow of the girl was created from black fondant with some white fondant for the tiny flowers on her top. The details were stuck on with a thinned jam glue.
The unfortunate short existence and demise of Cheryl aside, this took us about 10 hours over two days.
Our first attempt included a lovely headless girl called Cheryl, unfortunately Cheryl wasn’t too steady on her beautifully carved legs and met a sorry fate. So after several hours of baking, carving, icing and tears, we called it a day; not defeated, just more determined.
After some more consideration of how to interpret the design we came up with our plan; focus on the gun, the explosive mad rush of butterflies and pay tribute to the memory of the girl who once was as a slanted shadow.
We started by making our flutter of butterflies out of a mouth-watering mix of sugar paste, catering wire and edible glitter (what’s a cake without glitter?!).
The four cakes were made in 9 x 12 inch rectangular pans with a traditional Victoria sponge recipe and filled with homemade raspberry jam (courtesy of Nana J).
The base cake was covered in jam and white fondant (we underestimated the quantities we would need and several extra trips to the shops was required). The gun was carved from two stacked cakes and then covered in jam and black fondant. The detail for the gun was painstakingly created from black and white icing and is emblazoned with the monikers of the fine gunsmiths/bakers. The shadow of the girl was created from black fondant with some white fondant for the tiny flowers on her top. The details were stuck on with a thinned jam glue.
The unfortunate short existence and demise of Cheryl aside, this took us about 10 hours over two days.