2D Finalist
Together Again
by Connie Verbruggen · submitted Aug 4, 2011 · 2011 contest
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Description
I've watched threadcakes right from the inaugural year and I'm amazed at how spectacular the entries have gotten! My family is a huge fan of threadless and every christmas involves the giving and recieving of threadless t-shirts! This year I had some time so I decided to attempt an entry.
I decided to recreate 'Together Again' because it took me back to the good old days when we watched the muppets on tv, right before it was bedtime! Plus it is a vibrant colourful cake that my 2-year-old would enjoy, PLUS it doubled as a birthday cake for my big sis'. And we're really into the nostalgia thingy.
The cake was created over the span of 2 days. One day of baking and assembling the cake as a base, the second day of doing all the fondant decoration. With the help of my lovely sisters babysitting the young ones for me, the cake was created. Tools used included a hand-mixer, pyrex bowls, spatula, steak knife, butter knife and pizza cutter. Plus paper, pencil, and scissors to draw and cut out the stencils used on the fondant. I also spent a large portion of money acquiring gel colours to colour fondant(yikes!)
White cake was used for 80% of the cake and chocolate for 20%. Each batch of white cake was divided into two seperate cakes and coloured appropriately. This made for 7 cakes and a whole pile of leftovers!!!!
After all cakes were baked and cooled, they were measured and cut to accomodate a two layer cake. Coloured pieces were assembled and stacked in the proper order (following the order of colours on the design) and smothered in smooth, creamy, tasty buttercream icing. Filling was also buttercream. White fondant was draped over the cake as a base.
The next day, portions of fondant were coloured and I started cutting out the pieces of the design using a stencil that I had to freehand draw (woooooo). Each character stripe was assembled in order, except for miss piggy, whose fondant colour I had to redo because I goofed the first time around. Pieces were cut and assembled using the steak and butter knife. By the end of the night I had a lovely birthday cake, a sugar coated tongue and teeth, and was riding a mighty sugar high.
The next day we sang happy birthday to my sister and dived into the cake. Surprise all around as the cake eaters saw the colourful inside and my daughter couldn't wait to get her hands on a piece of red cake (or pink to her as if it is even close to pink, it's considered pink and please don't argue with her about it.) Mmmm, mmmm, good. And we're still working on it as I type. Mmmm, love that sugar!!!!!
I decided to recreate 'Together Again' because it took me back to the good old days when we watched the muppets on tv, right before it was bedtime! Plus it is a vibrant colourful cake that my 2-year-old would enjoy, PLUS it doubled as a birthday cake for my big sis'. And we're really into the nostalgia thingy.
The cake was created over the span of 2 days. One day of baking and assembling the cake as a base, the second day of doing all the fondant decoration. With the help of my lovely sisters babysitting the young ones for me, the cake was created. Tools used included a hand-mixer, pyrex bowls, spatula, steak knife, butter knife and pizza cutter. Plus paper, pencil, and scissors to draw and cut out the stencils used on the fondant. I also spent a large portion of money acquiring gel colours to colour fondant(yikes!)
White cake was used for 80% of the cake and chocolate for 20%. Each batch of white cake was divided into two seperate cakes and coloured appropriately. This made for 7 cakes and a whole pile of leftovers!!!!
After all cakes were baked and cooled, they were measured and cut to accomodate a two layer cake. Coloured pieces were assembled and stacked in the proper order (following the order of colours on the design) and smothered in smooth, creamy, tasty buttercream icing. Filling was also buttercream. White fondant was draped over the cake as a base.
The next day, portions of fondant were coloured and I started cutting out the pieces of the design using a stencil that I had to freehand draw (woooooo). Each character stripe was assembled in order, except for miss piggy, whose fondant colour I had to redo because I goofed the first time around. Pieces were cut and assembled using the steak and butter knife. By the end of the night I had a lovely birthday cake, a sugar coated tongue and teeth, and was riding a mighty sugar high.
The next day we sang happy birthday to my sister and dived into the cake. Surprise all around as the cake eaters saw the colourful inside and my daughter couldn't wait to get her hands on a piece of red cake (or pink to her as if it is even close to pink, it's considered pink and please don't argue with her about it.) Mmmm, mmmm, good. And we're still working on it as I type. Mmmm, love that sugar!!!!!