3D Finalist
Elefan
by Natalie Phillips · submitted Aug 8, 2011 · 2011 contest
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Description
My cake is based off of the Threadless design called “Elefan” and features an elephant with a real spinning trunk! He fans the other animals, just like in the t-shirt design. Sadly, my video camera seems to be malfunctioning so I couldn’t submit video with this entry, but I promise his trunk really does spin!
To make this cake, I began by covering a round cake in gray fondant. I wanted to add a decorative border so I rolled out a strip of orange fondant and cut designs into it with a decorating tip. Then I accented the border with white flowers, which were also cut out from fondant.
To make the animals, I used fondant mixed with a little bit of gumtex to make it harder. I formed each one by hand and then painted in some of the details using black petal dust mixed with a little bit of vodka (I use vodka instead of water so it doesn’t get goopy and because it dries faster). To make the elephant’s trunk, I used the inner ring from a pack of dental floss. I then glued the fondant trunks to the ring (this was the only part of my design that wasn’t edible) and this made it so his trunk would spin just like the fan in the picture. I learned a lot about modeling fondant figures from this cake and had a blast doing it!
To make this cake, I began by covering a round cake in gray fondant. I wanted to add a decorative border so I rolled out a strip of orange fondant and cut designs into it with a decorating tip. Then I accented the border with white flowers, which were also cut out from fondant.
To make the animals, I used fondant mixed with a little bit of gumtex to make it harder. I formed each one by hand and then painted in some of the details using black petal dust mixed with a little bit of vodka (I use vodka instead of water so it doesn’t get goopy and because it dries faster). To make the elephant’s trunk, I used the inner ring from a pack of dental floss. I then glued the fondant trunks to the ring (this was the only part of my design that wasn’t edible) and this made it so his trunk would spin just like the fan in the picture. I learned a lot about modeling fondant figures from this cake and had a blast doing it!
