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Long Journey
by Deanne Antao · submitted Aug 8, 2010 · 2010 contest
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Description
I finished this cake over a period of three days only because the gum paste refused to dry faster. I chose Long Journey because I liked the blue-green coloured waves and posed a good painting challenge!
I cut out stencils for the ship and sails proportionate to the size of the baking tin. The sails are gumpaste and the monster+wave was supposed to be gumpaste too! But broke when I went to place them due to a clumsy accident. This turned out to be a good thing in the end as it was better using just fondant and icing the big wave.
The cake itself is a simple madeira cake (first time go at a madeira cake!). After the two layers of royal icing the background was ready to paint. I placed the ship and sails, then created fondant tenticles of what I assumed was a ginormous octupus! The big wave down the bottom had a little lift and was purely white icing. The rest of the waves are painted on. I built up each layer of colour until I finished.
The hardest part was waiting for the paint to dry to begin the next layer of paint. Also I kept forgetting to take pictures. Working in the evening was a further disadvatage and produced disastrous pictures sometimes.
Taste: A broken scale meant that I had to convert most of the measurements and rely on ounces. I think I ended up putting in less sugar but it tasted awsome as the icing provided the necessary sweetness! The cake is gone in a day and it was a 28inch tin. So I guess the family did really like it!
I cut out stencils for the ship and sails proportionate to the size of the baking tin. The sails are gumpaste and the monster+wave was supposed to be gumpaste too! But broke when I went to place them due to a clumsy accident. This turned out to be a good thing in the end as it was better using just fondant and icing the big wave.
The cake itself is a simple madeira cake (first time go at a madeira cake!). After the two layers of royal icing the background was ready to paint. I placed the ship and sails, then created fondant tenticles of what I assumed was a ginormous octupus! The big wave down the bottom had a little lift and was purely white icing. The rest of the waves are painted on. I built up each layer of colour until I finished.
The hardest part was waiting for the paint to dry to begin the next layer of paint. Also I kept forgetting to take pictures. Working in the evening was a further disadvatage and produced disastrous pictures sometimes.
Taste: A broken scale meant that I had to convert most of the measurements and rely on ounces. I think I ended up putting in less sugar but it tasted awsome as the icing provided the necessary sweetness! The cake is gone in a day and it was a 28inch tin. So I guess the family did really like it!