3D
Bleeding Heart
by Cathy Shapelow @CathyBakes · submitted Aug 6, 2010 · 2010 contest
1 / 22
Description
Taking a look at all the shirt designs eligible for the contest, my mind wrapped around the idea for this cake because, to me, it showed a "bleeding heart" sitting on a wedding cake: as though it was "ripped out". But who would have their "heart ripped out" with it bleeding on a wedding cake? A BRIDE... whose groom was caught in the act on their big day (with a bridemaids none-the-less)!
Hense the design of my cake is the wedding cake that symbolized their marriage, now black, holds the bleeding heart that he ripped out of her chest. The groom and his bridesmaid mistress, going "behind the back" of the bride, who is left sad and alone on the biggest day of her life.
Here's how I made it:
I started out with a cream cheese pound cake to which I poured into a three tiered pan. Once each cake was cut and balanced, I stacked them on top of each other using a homemade lemon frosting. To minimize the effect of each tier on the cake, I chose to fondant the cake vertical with four main seams. Those seams where then covered with a red fondant which I cut into "blood-like" shapes and free formed around the cake, spilling onto the base. To create the heart I combined mulitple colors of fondant until a marble- like appearance was achieved: giving it black veins to make it more life-like.
This was the first time that I constructed people out of fondant. I constructed the heads and torsos first, allowing them to refridgerate for 1 day. To make the bridesmade, I covering her torso in pink fondant and twisted fondant to make her hair (all attached by water). The groom I covered in black fondant, made hair and even gave a 5 o'clock shadow to. I choose to have them kissing, and did not give them faces. I then put in fridge for 1 more day to hold.
For the bride, after assembling her head, torso and chest (with water and time in fridge) I then wrapped white fondant around her to make it look as though she had fallen on the floor in tears after witnessing what was behind her back. Her hair was made from twisted small pieces of fondant attached by rows with water. I then added blue fondant tears to emphasize the pain she was in.
How did it taste? Amazing, but of course. Cream cheese pound cake is one of my favorite cakes to make and ate all the scraps of cake over the 3 day cake making process. The lemon frosting gives the cake a great summertime feel. The only problem is: I could probably eat the rest of this cake by myself, so I gave some to the dogs.
Thanks again for letting me enter The cake took me 3 days total to make.
Hense the design of my cake is the wedding cake that symbolized their marriage, now black, holds the bleeding heart that he ripped out of her chest. The groom and his bridesmaid mistress, going "behind the back" of the bride, who is left sad and alone on the biggest day of her life.
Here's how I made it:
I started out with a cream cheese pound cake to which I poured into a three tiered pan. Once each cake was cut and balanced, I stacked them on top of each other using a homemade lemon frosting. To minimize the effect of each tier on the cake, I chose to fondant the cake vertical with four main seams. Those seams where then covered with a red fondant which I cut into "blood-like" shapes and free formed around the cake, spilling onto the base. To create the heart I combined mulitple colors of fondant until a marble- like appearance was achieved: giving it black veins to make it more life-like.
This was the first time that I constructed people out of fondant. I constructed the heads and torsos first, allowing them to refridgerate for 1 day. To make the bridesmade, I covering her torso in pink fondant and twisted fondant to make her hair (all attached by water). The groom I covered in black fondant, made hair and even gave a 5 o'clock shadow to. I choose to have them kissing, and did not give them faces. I then put in fridge for 1 more day to hold.
For the bride, after assembling her head, torso and chest (with water and time in fridge) I then wrapped white fondant around her to make it look as though she had fallen on the floor in tears after witnessing what was behind her back. Her hair was made from twisted small pieces of fondant attached by rows with water. I then added blue fondant tears to emphasize the pain she was in.
How did it taste? Amazing, but of course. Cream cheese pound cake is one of my favorite cakes to make and ate all the scraps of cake over the 3 day cake making process. The lemon frosting gives the cake a great summertime feel. The only problem is: I could probably eat the rest of this cake by myself, so I gave some to the dogs.
Thanks again for letting me enter The cake took me 3 days total to make.