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By The Moonlight
by Teodora Ciric @tookies rockabilly · submitted Aug 16, 2010 · 2010 contest
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Description
Me and my friend Ana love the kitchen! I love the part were I prepare goodies and Ana loves the part where she finds funny little contests like this one! She supports my passion for cooking and thought would be an amazing idea to make a threadcake in Elvis’s memory, for our hometown fans , since today, 16 august, it’ll be 33 years since his death. She picked up the design in such way it fits rockabilly music (Ana’a passion!) and “Dia de Los Muertos” concept.
Long story short, we baked a chocolate cake filled with vanilla mousse and crunchy orange flavored skull -shaped biscuits, we covered it in home- made fondant.
Because the size of the design we had i mind didn’t fit any of my baking recipients, I baked two cakes, a big and a small one and build the base for the scary-gorgeous cake!I made the vanilla mousse with lot’s of patience, a little bit of love and many ingredients from my grandma’s. I baked little red skull-shaped biscuits and spread them inside the mousse for a crunchy experience.
We shaped out the delicate bride’s skull (:P), (who’s name is Marie, because on the 15th of august there is also a national religious Holiday for the virgin Mary- one more reason to bake a cake! :) from fondant and painted it with black food coloring. Marie is a nice person- skeleton, or simply a skull, who waited patiently in the fridge for one day before we prepared her for the ceremony of the veil and roses bouquet.
The very hard part was to give the veil a rougher aspect, like a burial garment (shroud) to make the picture a little more dramatic. We made patterns of the different clouds surrounding our anxious bride, and put all the pieces together like a puzzle. Also the bouquet was made a similarly as possible to the flowers in the design and it took us a long time to get the perfect wedding bouquet for Elvis’s bride.
It was pretty fun and we really got into this spooky mood (and scared a few people), since the day after we finished “cake operation”we were like zombies at our workplace, having slept 3 hours more or less.:)
Great experience, which we will repeat next year for sure!
Long story short, we baked a chocolate cake filled with vanilla mousse and crunchy orange flavored skull -shaped biscuits, we covered it in home- made fondant.
Because the size of the design we had i mind didn’t fit any of my baking recipients, I baked two cakes, a big and a small one and build the base for the scary-gorgeous cake!I made the vanilla mousse with lot’s of patience, a little bit of love and many ingredients from my grandma’s. I baked little red skull-shaped biscuits and spread them inside the mousse for a crunchy experience.
We shaped out the delicate bride’s skull (:P), (who’s name is Marie, because on the 15th of august there is also a national religious Holiday for the virgin Mary- one more reason to bake a cake! :) from fondant and painted it with black food coloring. Marie is a nice person- skeleton, or simply a skull, who waited patiently in the fridge for one day before we prepared her for the ceremony of the veil and roses bouquet.
The very hard part was to give the veil a rougher aspect, like a burial garment (shroud) to make the picture a little more dramatic. We made patterns of the different clouds surrounding our anxious bride, and put all the pieces together like a puzzle. Also the bouquet was made a similarly as possible to the flowers in the design and it took us a long time to get the perfect wedding bouquet for Elvis’s bride.
It was pretty fun and we really got into this spooky mood (and scared a few people), since the day after we finished “cake operation”we were like zombies at our workplace, having slept 3 hours more or less.:)
Great experience, which we will repeat next year for sure!
Baker’s site: www.rockabilly.ro