2D Finalist 1
My Life is a Game (a New Stage)
by Alicia Zakarevicius @aliciazak · submitted Jul 26, 2011 · 2011 contest
1 / 38
Description
I first heard about Threadcakes this year and I just knew that I had to enter. I spent a looooonnnng time choosing a design - seriously it probably took me about 3 days to decide, but finally I decided on My Life is a Game (a New Stage). At first I was going to make it 3D but then I decided that was pure insanity and would require way too much cake to do it all - so then I started working on ideas for a 2D cake.
I decided to work with royal icing transfers. I blew up the image and printed it off in colour. I cut up the image and taped it to some baking trays and then taped some plastic sleeves over the images. I then made a huge batch of royal icing and got to work! First I mixed up some black icing and piped all of the outlines. Then with slightly thinned royal icing I went over the design in 6 passes to fill in the six colours - white, black, yellow, red, green and blue.
For the cake I baked up four 8" cakes (two white chocolate mud cakes and two coconut cakes). I then got my massive cake board 60cm x 90cm from the hardware store and started to put it all together. Each cake was cut into two layers and then each layer was placed onto the center of the cake board - I ended up having a cake size of 40cm x 70cm. Next I made up a batch of vanilla swiss meringue buttercream and coloured it grey. I covered the cake in buttercream and then it was all ready for the royal icing decorations.
To get the royal icing transfers off of the plastic sleeves I slid a piece of computer paper between the icing and the sleeve and then very carefully transferred the icing to the cake. There were quite a few breakages but because the decorations were all flat on the cake you couldn't really see them.
Once all of the royal icing transfers were on I piped grey royal icing between all of the images to give the cake a solid background. Then the cake board had a layer of grey royal icing spread over it to give the cake a neat finish. Finally I added the last royal icing transfer to the cake board, made a tiny yellow rope out of yellow fondant that connects the decorations on the cake to the one on the cake board and finally I was done!
All up this cake took me around 16 hours to make - with most of those hours spent piping royal icing. It was definitely a labour of love and I would do it all over again in a heartbeat!
Oh and the cake itself is delicious - I sampled some and the cut up the rest of it and froze it for a whole heap of morning teas to come.
Thanks for reading if you made it this far!
I decided to work with royal icing transfers. I blew up the image and printed it off in colour. I cut up the image and taped it to some baking trays and then taped some plastic sleeves over the images. I then made a huge batch of royal icing and got to work! First I mixed up some black icing and piped all of the outlines. Then with slightly thinned royal icing I went over the design in 6 passes to fill in the six colours - white, black, yellow, red, green and blue.
For the cake I baked up four 8" cakes (two white chocolate mud cakes and two coconut cakes). I then got my massive cake board 60cm x 90cm from the hardware store and started to put it all together. Each cake was cut into two layers and then each layer was placed onto the center of the cake board - I ended up having a cake size of 40cm x 70cm. Next I made up a batch of vanilla swiss meringue buttercream and coloured it grey. I covered the cake in buttercream and then it was all ready for the royal icing decorations.
To get the royal icing transfers off of the plastic sleeves I slid a piece of computer paper between the icing and the sleeve and then very carefully transferred the icing to the cake. There were quite a few breakages but because the decorations were all flat on the cake you couldn't really see them.
Once all of the royal icing transfers were on I piped grey royal icing between all of the images to give the cake a solid background. Then the cake board had a layer of grey royal icing spread over it to give the cake a neat finish. Finally I added the last royal icing transfer to the cake board, made a tiny yellow rope out of yellow fondant that connects the decorations on the cake to the one on the cake board and finally I was done!
All up this cake took me around 16 hours to make - with most of those hours spent piping royal icing. It was definitely a labour of love and I would do it all over again in a heartbeat!
Oh and the cake itself is delicious - I sampled some and the cut up the rest of it and froze it for a whole heap of morning teas to come.
Thanks for reading if you made it this far!