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Celestial Summer Camp
by Michelle Lapus @ureshiikao · submitted Aug 9, 2010 · 2010 contest
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Celestial Summer Camp
This design was so charming and I like how "Pluto" was still included as a planet in this rendering of the solar system, at least, when I was a kid Pluto was still a planet...and still one of the cool kids welcome at the campfire, apparently. Maybe he's just one of the legends the campers hear stories about now. I never went to camp as a kid personally, but I can imagine. All they need is chocolate and graham crackers to make s'mores! At least they never have Smokey the Bear telling them to prevent forest fires...maybe that's why Earth is suffering from so much global warming -- too much time spent around the sun as a kid.
Anyway, this is a carrot bundt cake made from boxed mix, but I added coarsely chopped walnuts and extra cinnamon. The next night I made a cream cheese glaze, tinted with royal blue color and poured it over. The next night was for decorating, which alone took about four hours. The sun sits in the center, and is a molded piece of white chocolate airbrushed yellow and iced with some white decorator icing tinted orange. Next, I made different-sized white fondant circle cutouts for the planets, and cut other shapes free-handed (rings, hats, bows). I then painted the gray parts with a dilute black color (sort of like watercolors!) and airbrushed any parts that needed to be yellow on the planets (especially the "reflection" of the sun on their faces). For the facial expressions I painted a not-so-dilute black gel icing on. The roasting sticks are black fondant, and really mini marshmallows (the kind from packets of hot cocoa) covered in extra marshmallow fluff to give it the melted look, and to make it stick...Marshmallow creme was fun to work with! Black food coloring, not so much. Enjoy!
This design was so charming and I like how "Pluto" was still included as a planet in this rendering of the solar system, at least, when I was a kid Pluto was still a planet...and still one of the cool kids welcome at the campfire, apparently. Maybe he's just one of the legends the campers hear stories about now. I never went to camp as a kid personally, but I can imagine. All they need is chocolate and graham crackers to make s'mores! At least they never have Smokey the Bear telling them to prevent forest fires...maybe that's why Earth is suffering from so much global warming -- too much time spent around the sun as a kid.
Anyway, this is a carrot bundt cake made from boxed mix, but I added coarsely chopped walnuts and extra cinnamon. The next night I made a cream cheese glaze, tinted with royal blue color and poured it over. The next night was for decorating, which alone took about four hours. The sun sits in the center, and is a molded piece of white chocolate airbrushed yellow and iced with some white decorator icing tinted orange. Next, I made different-sized white fondant circle cutouts for the planets, and cut other shapes free-handed (rings, hats, bows). I then painted the gray parts with a dilute black color (sort of like watercolors!) and airbrushed any parts that needed to be yellow on the planets (especially the "reflection" of the sun on their faces). For the facial expressions I painted a not-so-dilute black gel icing on. The roasting sticks are black fondant, and really mini marshmallows (the kind from packets of hot cocoa) covered in extra marshmallow fluff to give it the melted look, and to make it stick...Marshmallow creme was fun to work with! Black food coloring, not so much. Enjoy!
