Mr Cloud s New Scarf

Howdy! So this is my first Threadcake submission. I just learned about the contest on the Cake Wrecks website and I thought it would be a fun challenge. Being more of a baker and less of an artist, I was daunted by a lot of the submissions and even more overwhelmed by all the amazing designs, but when my five-year-old daughter fell in love with Mr. Cloud’s New Scarf (which she now has on a lunch bag for Kindergarten) I was inspired. I have a particular love for Baked Alaskas so I thought this design would be perfect. Since the outer part of the cake isn’t particularly difficult, I decided to make the insides just as fun. This plan happened to coincide with the purchase of an ice cream machine. I made four different sorbets: strawberry (red); mango (orange); lemon (yellow); and lime (green) and layered them in a plastic wrap lined bowl. This took about four days since you have to freeze the ice cream maker bowl for almost a day in between each use. Unfortunately I didn’t get any pictures of me making the strawberry or the lemon sorbets. The strawberries were awesome local Oregon berries too:( I did get a picture of the prep for the mango sorbet and the lime sorbet though. My daughters “helped” me make the cake base layers which is a lemon cake that we divided into three 9” round cake pans and used food coloring to make blue, indigo and violet. While the cakes cooled my friend, Vanessa, and my older daughter, Amy Jo, worked on the fondant rainbow scarf while I made the Italian meringue for the “cloud cover.” Once the sorbet dome was thawed enough to come out of the bowl I inverted it onto the stacked cake rounds and quickly covered it in meringue. We draped the scarf around the base and cut out some fondant eyes and mouth and VOILA--Mr. Cloud emerged. I piped a little meringue around the scarf for the arms and I actually sprinkled some edible glitter on him too so that he would glitter like the one on Amy Jo’s bag, but it didn’t come through in the pictures. We had a great time making and eating Mr. Cloud. He was devoured during a barbecue at our house that was, ironically, forced inside by clouds (with lots of rain in them.) Mr. Cloud got his just desserts though (pun totally intended;)