3D
Ice Cream Time
by Andrea Lloyd · submitted Jul 23, 2011 · 2011 contest
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Description
Ice Cream Time!! I decided to go with Neapolitan flavored cake. I whipped up a yellow cake, added chocolate to 1/3 and strawberries to 1/3 and poured them all in the baking sheet to bake. The chocolate and vanilla worked fine but the strawberry was a little flat (I think it needed more time due to the extra liquid).
I wanted to accept the challenge of completely edible – which it is! (Except for the pie plate it’s sitting on). I made make chocolate shapes by pouring chocolate into bowls, spoons and cookie cutters – used these in place of cake circles. Then I used modeling chocolate to make an internal dowel. I shaped most of the features with the modeling chocolate too (nose, ice cream, feet) and covered with fondant. The best new thing I tried was making spackle from the cake scraps mixed with icing. All of the cake I carved off ended up back on the cake in this form. I tried to apply it with a knife but it wasn’t spreading easily. It worked really well to apply it with my hands and I could easily move and smooth it without it sticking to me. Everything is covered in buttercream and homemade marshmallow fondant.
I made two chocolate spikes to attach the penguin to the polar bear and I truly believed that would do the trick! Penguin is too heavy so I poured some chocolate in a piping bag, let it set and covered it in fondant to make a support for his bum. I rolled out fondant into little strings to make the other features (eyes, knees) but it was getting really difficult. I mixed a bit of water in the fondant and put it in a piping bag – it piped on nicely. The most difficult item to attach was that tiny little ice cream! Penguin’s arm kept breaking.
The whole cake took around 15 hours. The video here shows the assembly start to finish – sorry if it makes you a bit seasick!
I wanted to accept the challenge of completely edible – which it is! (Except for the pie plate it’s sitting on). I made make chocolate shapes by pouring chocolate into bowls, spoons and cookie cutters – used these in place of cake circles. Then I used modeling chocolate to make an internal dowel. I shaped most of the features with the modeling chocolate too (nose, ice cream, feet) and covered with fondant. The best new thing I tried was making spackle from the cake scraps mixed with icing. All of the cake I carved off ended up back on the cake in this form. I tried to apply it with a knife but it wasn’t spreading easily. It worked really well to apply it with my hands and I could easily move and smooth it without it sticking to me. Everything is covered in buttercream and homemade marshmallow fondant.
I made two chocolate spikes to attach the penguin to the polar bear and I truly believed that would do the trick! Penguin is too heavy so I poured some chocolate in a piping bag, let it set and covered it in fondant to make a support for his bum. I rolled out fondant into little strings to make the other features (eyes, knees) but it was getting really difficult. I mixed a bit of water in the fondant and put it in a piping bag – it piped on nicely. The most difficult item to attach was that tiny little ice cream! Penguin’s arm kept breaking.
The whole cake took around 15 hours. The video here shows the assembly start to finish – sorry if it makes you a bit seasick!
